新年快乐！
Happy 2010, everyone! In China, it’s a traditional custom to eat oranges to celebrate the new year. We ate oranges all the time in China (being health conscious after eating the sodium and calorie fortified dining hall fare, you know) — it’s easy to get a bunch for a couple kuai on campus. There’s one lady who sells outside the 西南门 in the evenings who ALWAYS, ALWAYS gives you free fruit. I still remember her giving me a quarter of a watermelon the first time I bought fruit from her. Anyway, it’s colder in the wintertime, so free watermelon quarters cannot be had, but adorable tiny mandarin oranges can. Please observe.
These pictures make my hands look humongous, but these oranges are seriously small, about 1.5 inches in diameter. No less delicious than its larger counterparts, of course.
Happy 2010, everyone! In China, it’s a traditional custom to eat oranges to celebrate the new year. We ate oranges all the time in China (being health conscious after eating the delicious, albeit sodium and cholesterol fortified, dining hall fare, you know) — it’s easy to get a bunch for a couple kuai on campus. There’s one lady who sells outside the 西南门 in the evenings who ALWAYS, ALWAYS gives you free fruit. I still remember her giving me a quarter of a watermelon the first time I bought fruit from her. Anyway, it’s colder in the wintertime, so free watermelon quarters cannot be had, but adorable tiny mandarin oranges can. Please observe.
That’s a tangerine…