If you travel the world and luckily on your itinerary is China, you will find a lot of information about the wonderful places you can visit, such as its spectacular and ancient wall, or the magnificent and enigmatic terracotta warriors, or the Temple of Heaven.
Without a doubt, China is a vast country with an impressive culture, but do you know that today there are totally rare things that you can get there? Come with Lifestyle and we'll take a spin.
9 awesome things you can buy in China
1.Canned air
How can they sell air, and canning? Well, if Chen Guangbiao , the most extravagant millionaire in China-as he is known-, he launched a new product, a soda can full of...air, but it's not just any air, it's supposed to be which is fresh air.
This is part of an advertising strategy for an environmental conservation campaign, since the country has such high levels of pollution that, from space, you can see the smog in some Chinese areas.
You can choose from a variety of scents, and apparently the most popular is called “Pristino Tibet”, and for nostalgic people there is the “revolutionary Yah'an” or the “Taiwan post industrial air”.
2.Living key chains
These are small bags filled with a nutrient-rich liquid where miniature turtles or pequins usually live enos pez-rey, for a period of three or four months.
Protective societies of Chinese animals have energetically protested these mercantile practices, because they argue that inside the tightly closed bags it is impossible for oxygen to enter, which is obviously harmful to animals.
But these objects are bought a lot, especially for good luck , although the good news is that many people buy them to free the animals.
3.Caucasian people
No, we don't talk about white trafficking, fortunately, and it's not really that they buy from people, they just rent them.
As you probably know, Currently 90% of the new millionaires are Chinese and, it seems, if Chinese businessmen appear next to Caucasian people-as partners-, it gives them prestige and status.
So, what they do is to hire the services of actors to accompany them in important events, and let themselves be photographed by their side.The requirements are, according to Jonathan Zatkin , an actor whose main job is this, to be white; Do not speak any Chinese, or do not speak at all, unless expressly requested, and pretend that you just got off a plane.
4.Te panda
Panda tea is not a tea made with leaves of any plant, but with excrement of pandas.The most impressive thing is that it is the most expensive tea in the world : 1 kilo of dried poop can cost approximately 77,000 US dollars .
The theory is that apparently pandas digest only 30% of the bamboo they eat, and the rest is eliminated in feces.Bamboo is thought to contain antioxidants that would help prevent cancer, and thus it is sold as an anticancer and anti-obesity tonic.
5.Vending machines for live crabs
This was an innovative initiative of a Chinese supplier company of crabs, Twin Lakes Crabs Co., which in 201 0 decided to build crab vending machines that would be installed in the subway stations of the city of Nanjing.
The crabs are kept at a constant temperature of 5º C, cold enough to keep them" asleep ", but not enough to kill them.it sells for the equivalent of 2 dollars, and also in the lower row of the machine bottles of ginger vinegar are offered to accompany the crustacean.full combo.
6.Substitutes for traffic jams
China is one of the most overpopulated countries on the planet.As is logical to assume, in some cities large traffic jams are built, the duration of which is undetermined and long.
It is really a service, it is not something you can take from China.If you are in the middle of endless rows of cars, call the company, give your location, make and model of car and you wait for a motorcycle with two individuals to arrive: one that will replace you inside the car and that of the motorcycle that will take you where you need, do what you should do and then return you to the traffic jam.
It is offered mostly in the surroundings of Wuhan , in central China, where as a rule are the worst traffic jams in the country.
7.Picked you up with the mouth of a virgin
Strange but true.The Jiuhua plantation, in the Henan Province, hire virgins to collect l As tea leaves.But, in addition to such a condition, the company requires that they also have a generous bust, cup C, to be exact, in addition to not showing visible scars or wounds.
They collect the leaves with their lips and drop them in a wicker basket that hangs between her breasts.They can't touch any part of the plant with their hands.
Such unique demands come from a Chinese legend about how fairies collected the tea , and according to the company, the plant would obtain the strength and purity of the virgins, which would then be transferred to whoever drinks the tea.It was clear that something as specific and strange as this could only be bought in China, right?
8.Robot food
In 2011, Chinese inventor Cui Runquan created Chef Cui , a humanoid robot that prepares noodles.This is not new, in Japan there is also ho robots served by robots.
The point is that in Shanghai these robots are used not only to serve diners, but to cook directly .This has many advantages, since they can from washing dirty pots to combining ingredients and having the order ready in just 3 minutes.The true meaning of “fast food”.
In the restaurant Dalu Rebot you can taste prepared meals and served by robots.
9.Obama Fried Chicken
In 2011, a businessman in Beijing first opened the OFC , a restaurant that sells chicken fried with a caricatured image of Barak Obama, in the best style of the American chain KFC , even with the same colors.
As you can see, the possibilities of what you can buy in China They are endless.And if you want to continue shopping, we suggest our article Do you want to buy one of the cheapest islands in the world?
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