At the market

Here are photos from my visit to the market last week. At the top is Tsao Ayi. She's one of the ayis that goes with us each week. She speaks no English and thinks it's funny when I speak Chinese. She doesn't look happy in the picture but usually she has a big smile on her face. On this day she bargained for the price of the carrots. The price was 3 mao per jin, which is pound. The total for the bag, which was about 36 pounds, was about $2.

The bottom two pictures are a man preparing a pineapple. It's a simple pleasure here to be able to buy a pineapple ready for cutting so easily.