Lily, or Ni Ni, or Li Li (she’s a woman of many names, owing mostly to her Sichuan dialect) owns an outdoor noodle stand. The specialty of the house is Suan La Fen, or Sour Spicy Rice Noodles. It is eaten by the multitudes from paper bowls, while perched precariously on plastic stools over tables that have seen much better days.
She opens around noon, and closes when the customers are gone. The back of the stand is covered with a large, open-sided tent. A bare fluorescent bulb illuminates the tables and diners after dark.
Lily smiles. She laughs. She rhymes off your bill like a human adding machine.
Her stand also has a wide variety of meat-on-a-stick and an always-ready deep fryer to cook said meats. The greasy treats are popular with the students after class (high school students head home at 10 pm). The cold pijiu is popular with their teachers.
Photo Notes: Canon 40D, ISO 400, 1/2000, f/3.2, with an EF 70-200 f/2.8L
Very nice Stevo…
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Great capture. She has a very natural beauty.
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I love su la fen myself.
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Ron: Thanks.
Josh: She is quite lovely, and extremely amusing.
Love the way you caught her look of contentment.
They have yakasoba (probably spelled wrong) stands in Japan. It’s noodles stirfried with cabbage and what ever meat is cheap. Sounds awful, but tastes wonderful.
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Shawn: Many things that sound awful taste good. That’s not right, but often true.
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She looks like a woman with a mission. You made me hungry just reading this.
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Corina: The noodles are quite good. 🙂
Nice catch here Stevo. You’ll have to take me there for lunch!
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This is a truly great dish even if its simplistic. I could never get enough while I was in Beijing. Hao Chi!!!