Walnut prices in Xinjiang were down this year due to tariff issues and Murat Azizi wasn’t standing for it. A convoy to Beijing to dump the harvest in complaint was in order, he insisted.
Polat Kadeer shook his head. That was wasteful. He loved his walnuts. Also, he hated driving his truck in Beijing traffic. Gave him a headache.
What they really ought to do was disguise the underpriced walnuts as Cordyceps Fungi and sell them for $75,000 per kilo to purveyors of Chinese traditional medicine in San Francisco.
A little hair dye and an Xacto knife should do it.
Thanks to Fiona Reilly of Life on Nanchang Lu for the photo and for listening in on farmers’ conversations in the park in Hotan, Xinjiang.
Finding your page is AMAZING! I have spent my life collecting and talking to mops… I have over 35 mops, each with a different name and personality! Now I have a one-woman show about it: http://www.mopoholic.com
We must meet!
Whoooooaaah! Now this, I didn’t expect. There are two of us in this world? And we both have double-barrelled names (wherein both names must be represented, yo)? You know, given your mop predilection, you might be interested in a visit to Shanghai: we are the world’s capital of free roaming mops. I already have 254 mops published here with over 50 more in my drafts folder and even more still in my phone and computer waiting to be uploaded. Every da, I easily meet a dozen never-before-seen mops in story-ful poses– and I’m just out walking in roughly the same neighbourhoods.
Do mops roam free in LA?