One of the things I love about living in China is that I just keep on discovering bizarre things. I thought I had already seen pretty much all the “alien” fruits China had to offer, and then recently a co-worker brought some “姑娘... ...full story at Sinosplice
from Sinosplice on Sun, Aug 16 2009
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