The Old Man and the Tea

The old man, ah Pak, is a hunchback selling shanjisheng and steamed egg puddings close to Rotunda de Carlos da Maia (aka "three lamps"). Shanjisheng, in case you don't know, is a popular herbal tea made mostly of Chinese taxillus twig. The herb is a mistletoe, hemi-parasitic shrub but the man who sells it might as well be the least parasitic person in Macao. Instead of begging his bread or living off the back of the welfares by the government, he choses to live up a life with his bare hands without a single word of poorness uttered, night after night.