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...streets of Xian, the principal city in northwestern China, are a hub of activity. Young men and women, dressed in greys, greens, blues, and white, walk along the mud and brick sidewalks. An old woman toddles along on her small bound feet. People riding bicycles and pulling handdrawn carts fill the streets. An old man passes carrying a straw basket of produce on the back of his bicycle. Another man pulls concrete blocks in a hand-cart. Not permitted to own cars, individual Chinese haul everything from steel and logs to their crippled grandmothers by hand-cart and by bicycle...
...World should be minus the crunching crowds, Grumpy, Sleepy and Doc. For those of you who have never been to Tampa, that water is Tampa Bay and out there is the Gulf of Mexico. Yes, the weather is nicer than Miami. Have a Dreamsicle from the guy with the cart and enjoy...
...shish-kebab cart. The Greek couple that presided over this cart took about a minute and a half to pull some marinated beef off their grill and onto a hero roll, cover it with lettuce and tomatoes, sauteed onions and peppers and paint a little extra marinade on the inside of the roll. I had roast pheasant with truffles once, at a famous French restaurant, and it was almost as good as that hero...
...soft ice cream cart. Also known as the milkshake cart, soft ice cream being a tricky thing to keep in your cone in 90-degree weather. I stopped in front of the cart every day to watch a street-mime who had staked out this part of the avenue. His schtick, which attracted a large crowd every day, was to follow unsuspecting pedestrians about a step behind them, imitating the way they walked Every so often, he would run ahead of one of his subjects and dive onto the sidewalk to look up her skirt. One day, an elderly woman...
...fruit salad cart. A stunning Indian woman in a sari dispensed a first-rate cup of fruit here, with watermelon, orange, grapes, grapefruit, pineapple and cantaloupe. It was at this stand, right in front of the Exxon building, that I generally saw a scene that took me all summer to get used to. It went something like this...