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English

On most days, one can find peddlers selling meticulously skinned pineapples, a man selling two kinds of honey — plain and medicinal — and an ornery cobbler who can resole a pair of shoes in as much time as it takes to down a steaming bowl of hand-shaved noodles.Cradling a brass teapot and babysitting three pairs of caged lovebirds, Wu Xiulong, 76, sat in front of the doorway of his courtyard and reminisced about the vendors whose arrival he used to await as a child: the bean-cake man, the corn-cob seller, the baker who produced the flakiest flatbread. "Oh, back then they were baked on both sides, so crunchy, with sesame seeds," he said.

Chinese

大多数日子里,你能够在那里找到售卖精心削好皮的菠萝的小贩,卖两种蜂蜜 — — 纯蜜和药用蜜 — — 的男人,还有一位脾气暴躁的修鞋匠,他换一双鞋底的时间,正好等于下一碗手擀面的时间。 抚弄着一把黄铜茶壶,照看着笼子里的三对小鸟,吴修龙(音 ) , 76岁,坐在自家院子门廊前,追忆起小时候那些他常常等待着的小贩:卖豆糕的,卖玉米棒子的,还有做出最薄大饼的小贩 。 " 哦,那时候薄饼两面都烤过,非常松脆,还有芝麻籽儿在上面 " , 他说 , " 非常好吃,但现在这些都没有了 。 "