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...been used as fleshy sign-boards to attract customers to roadside stalls selling betel nuts, aka "Taiwanese chewing gum," from shops with names like "Erotic Bitches" and "Moulin Rouge." But on October 15, the county government, embarrassed by the display of public erotica, began enforcing laws prohibiting 1,600 hawkers from unduly exposing certain parts of the female anatomy, specifically breasts, bellies and buttocks. Vendors, of course, claim the restrictions will shrink demand for betel nuts. "It's all about competition," says 19-year-old hawker Hsiao Enn, who works in a crimson miniskirt and revealing blouse. "But I have...
...staggering variety of regional and international cuisines steadily court the diner’s attentions; where, already sated with a large lunch, people ravenously discuss what they will devour for dinner that same day; where taxi drivers are polled regularly by newspapers on the best and most elusive hawker stalls island-wide...
...material. History has been hiding in plain sight. This is strikingly seen, for example, in Beckett's enterprising visit to Rolls-Royce workers in Scotland who, just days after Pinochet and his fellow military chiefs seized power in 1973, had refused to service the engines of eight British-made Hawker Hunter fighter jets like those used to attack Chile's presidential palace. The standoff at the engine plant near Glasgow lasted five years. Apart from his discussion of Chile's covert assistance to Britain during the 1982 Falklands War with Argentina - for which Thatcher was deeply grateful to Pinochet - Beckett...
...After passing banana plantations and coconut groves, we turned into a canal called Klong Bangkok Noi, where Poon spied a hawker in a boat piled high with soap, snacks and sodas. The long-sought coffee peddler set a pot of water boiling on a tiny gas stove. He carefully poured steaming water through what looked suspiciously like a gym sock filled with ground coffee. It dripped into a can already laced with two generous spoonfuls of sweetened condensed milk. In one practiced motion he scooped a plate of ice into a plastic sack, poured in the steaming coffee, stabbed...
...Gallery cohabits comfortably with ornate Hindu and incense-wreathed Buddhist temples, Chinese clan houses, Muslim mosques and serried rows of peeling and shuttered shophouses. Cultures collide at every intersection. A walk down Lebuh Chulia, a major thoroughfare, will have your mouth watering at the spicy aromas from Chinese hawker stands and your hips swaying to the rhythms of the latest Bollywood hits as you pass Little India. For a brief respite, duck into the scented world of Sheik Abdul Hamid Bin Hassan Badjenid's perfume shop?run by three generations of Yemenite traders?where you can buy tiny bottles...