I checked out the tourist-friendly shopping district the other day
not to shop, but to patronize a street food vendor I remembered from the past who sold roast gingko nuts.
I don't know about the mobile vendors that sell various small toys and tchotchkes and such
but the food vendors all start arriving at around 3:30 PM to start setting up (maybe it's to do with district bylaws or some such), and by 4 PM they are ready to receive customers.
I bought a small bag of hot, freshly roasted gingko nuts, and they were as good as I remembered, with a semi-gelatinous texture and an "aristocratically restrained" (I don't know how else to put it), very slightly bitter taste.
I once read in an old tome that these nuts are actually mildly poisonous and one really should not eat more than ten at a time; but look at the contents of this bag -- there are dozens of them.
Presumably it's one bag, one customer. Surely one is not expected to share them with three or four friends.
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