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May 14, 2008
Culture Shock #2: Surprising Street Vendor
After my extremely bad "meal" at KFC/Pizza Hut (don't ask...), we were walking back to our hotel down a fairly crowded street at about 9:45PM. As we were walking, the street was being transformed into a marketplace with tons of street vendors setting up their merchandise. It was mostly clothing and little art stuff, no DVD's or anything I would be remotely interested in. Except one thing...
We come up to this guy making loud chants and banging this stick. As he moves out of the day, we see a cardboard box that was moving. It took us a moment to understand what was in the box. Puppies. Those dogs were so damn cute and it is so sad they were either stolen or bred in a basement. We could have bought them all for about $50 then set them all free. Who sells dogs on the side of the street! 
Posted by brianhe at May 14, 2008 10:52 PM