Night Food

I don't think I'd feel perfectly safe even in America walking a dark alley alone. It's different here though. Things aren't safer because of Big Brother. He's hardly noticeable except for the occasional traffic cop and mounted closed circuit camera. But it's safe. So I walked.

I walked down to where a family normally sets up a night kabab stand that functions as a outdoor bar and resteraunt for locals. Chinese men walked past in the dark with their shirts lifted above their nipples. The stand was closed. Too wet. I walked the other direction towards PopLand and the bakeries. I knew vendors set up there in the rain sometimes. I'd been before.

I was still on my camera kick from Tianjin University so I took out the FZ30 and plopped it on the metal bicycle seat that drove the portable outdoor resteraunt. Two long exposures later and nobody seemed the least bit curious as to what I was doing. I snapped a few more. I showed the vendor his photo, took my food, and walked home.


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