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.

Comments

[Lori]

According to the clock, the old man 'ah pak' begins selling at 1:30 in the morning?

[chaxiubao]

it starts at 11ish in the evening and wraps up when all sold out... about 2ish I guess.

[Niall Harbison]

Hi there

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[CuveeX]

have you had a chance to talk to him... or his regulars? he must have quite some time to kill at daytime ;-). I would be curious to know whether he is happy with what he is doing...

[mustafa]

thanks for this sharing