If you want a new experience – jump with a parachute. If you if you want to completely forget what gray days are – buy a ticket to China. Well, if you already live there, then you already know everything, and from owning some of the strangest things that are available in free trade only here, you are only a couple of hundred yuan. Below is a list of the ten most extraordinary things which can be purchased in China. 
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1. Live crab vending machines
In 2010, the Chinese crab supplier, Twin Lakes Crab Co, “decided that in some cases going to the food the store is not very convenient. So they built vending machines in which you can buy live crabs. These machines were installed on subway stations throughout the city of Nanjing. Imagine ordinary vending machine, and then replace all the chips and cookies with plastic boxes filled with air in which the living stirring crabs – that’s exactly what it looks like.
Crabs are kept at a temperature of 5 degrees Celsius, which cool enough for them to hibernate but not enough to kill them. They are sold at about two dollars, and in the bottom row of the machine there are also bottles with ginger vinegar, which is usually served with crabs.
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2. Panda tea
It should be noted right away that Panda tea is a drink made from excrement pandas. This is the most expensive tea in the world – a kilogram of it. dried tea will cost you about 77 thousand dollars. But why does anyone even want to drink this? It is believed that pandas are actually only 30 percent of the bamboo they eat is absorbed highlighting the rest of the unprocessed bamboo along with feces. People believe that besides various nutrients, bamboo contains antioxidants that can prevent cancer, so Pandov tea advertised as a tonic against cancer and as a medicine for weight loss.
This tea factory is located in Sichuan, and the owner of the Panda Tea brand is Yanshi An, who founded his company by purchasing 11 tons of litter from the pandas reserve, located nearby.
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3. Food cut, cooked and served by robots
Apparently any food, from noodles to spicy chicken, has a better taste if it was cooked cold metal hands of the robot. There are already three such establishments in China that clearly speaks of the extension of fashion to the use of robotics in the food industry.
In 2011, Chinese inventor Cui Rongquan created Cook Tsui, a humanoid robot who cooks and serves the popular in china homemade noodles. Usually it is prepared as follows: from the dough is manually cut into strips, which are then boiled in boiling water. Robots are already mass produced, and purchase such a robot can be for about 2 thousand dollars. At the moment it was already More than 3,000 similar machines have been sold.
Shanghai’s fast food chain also uses robots – but here they are used as real chefs. Explicit the advantage is their efficiency: one robot in just three minutes can wash dirty dishes, mix the ingredients, prepare the dish and submit the finished order on a plate. Disadvantages? The introduction of robots in another area of our lives, which will facilitate them задачу, когда они захотят нас убить 
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And finally, if you don’t have simple cooking robots enough you can go to a restaurant called “Dalu Rebot Restaurant “, where robotic waiters work. Here on a special six mechanical anthropoids drive around the track a feeder who can serve 21 tables on their way to after which they return to the kitchen to fill their trays.
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4. Canned air
If you want to breathe fresh air in China, it will be cost you about five yuan. At that price, Chen Guangbaio “sells product of its new canned line air. It’s really just a tin can filled with air. This product is on the one hand advertising stunt, and on the other – created to attract attention to serious environmental problems of China. Air pollution in Celestial is so strong that smog, standing above some parts of the country can be seen even from space (seriously).
You can enjoy three types of fresh air: “Clean Tibet “(Pristine Tibet) – their purest three options, “Revolutionary Yahan” (Revolutionary Yah’an), for those who experiencing nostalgia for the heroic past, and finally, air with aroma of “Post-Industrial Taiwan” (Post-Industrial Taiwan).
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5. Substitutes for traffic jams
For a country in which 1.3 billion people live it’s not surprising to have fairly long traffic jams. However several entrepreneurs managed to turn even such a problem into money. They offer a service that is that a person will sit in your car for you while she is in traffic.
It works like this: if you get stuck in traffic, you can call to this service, say where you are, and wait until two people will come to your car on motorcycles. The doubler will sit in your a car, and a motorcyclist will take you where you need to. This service in mainly offered in Wuhan in the center of China. This metropolis is one of the most densely populated in all of China, therefore it is here that some of the most terrible traffic jams in the country are formed.
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6. Excursions with dwarfs
The Kingdom of Little People is a kind of mix theme park and specially designated for this “kingdoms” of the municipal district. This place is located in Yunnan Province and covers an area of 5261 hectares. Territory was specially allocated for the construction of a miniature world in which only dwarfs will live, and which will serve as a peculiar amusement park. How offensive it sounds – decide you.
The Kingdom of Little People, which is an idea An entrepreneur named Chen Mingjing is still under construction. However on at the moment, there were already built 30 cottages for dwarfs, and also a building for staging a mock version of Swan Lake, which has already opened to visitors. Despite the fact that many people do not like this idea, Chen claims to provide small people with constant work, and that without his help the dwarfs would be predicament given the country’s economic problems. In addition, he said, many residents of the Kingdom are proud those that are part of this community.
See also issue – Country of Lilliputians
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7. Fried Chicken by Obama
In China, one can truly find everything – from morally ambiguous dwarfism to vaguely racist copyright infringement. In 2011 in Beijing, one entrepreneurial businessman opened the first in China OFC – Obama Fried Chicken. The restaurant sells fried chicken and uses a KFC-style banner (Kentucky Fried Chicken – Kentucky Roasted Chicken), as well as the logo of this company, complemented by a cartoony smiling caricature of Barack Obama.
It’s hard to believe, but this is not the first OFC restaurant in the world and is not first use of Obama’s image for selling chicken. First OFC restaurant opened back in 2009 in Brooklyn, but was soon closed. In addition, during a course absolutely unrelated to closure Brooklyn antics restaurant, the official KFC chain in China released an ad in 2011 in which an actor similar to Obama makes a speech, and then a huge sandwich with chicken. This certainly has a hidden meaning, but you probably already you guessed it yourself …
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8. Key rings with live turtles
Probably one of the strangest items you can buy in China, are key rings with small live animals. Animals, usually small Brazilian snake-necked turtles or mackerel fry, sealed in a small bag or plastic ball, which is filled with a fluid containing nutrients. This liquid supposedly feeds animals for three or four months.
Of course, a tightly sealed bag raises many questions about how the animal receives oxygen, and several organizations on China’s animal welfare rightly raised a fuss, calling These key rings are a particularly brutal form of animal mockery. Usually people buy these charms either for luck or out of pity, to let the animal go free.
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9. White people
In China, of course you can’t buy white people, but you can rent, which in principle is not so different from a purchase. Chinese businessmen often rent white actors to stand next to them on important events, and on this their role ends.
The idea is that the Chinese believe that Western companies very successful, so if a Chinese businessman appears in company of a white person who is most likely his a Western business partner, it is a symbol of status in society and prestige. Sometimes an actor just stands, sometimes he gives a speech, and sometimes he is given a small role, complemented by fake business cards. One actor named Jonathan Zatkin was paid for that he made a speech at the opening of a jewelry store and described “how wonderful it was to work with this company for 10 years”.
According to Zatkin, the requirements for this work are very simple, you just need to: be white, not speak Chinese or even do not say if it is not necessary, and pretend that you only yesterday flew into the country.
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10. Tea collected by the lips of a virgin
This is probably one of the funniest items: the tea plantation Jiuhua, located in Henan Province, hires virgins with a third breast size so that they collect tea leaves with lips and then threw them into wicker baskets, located between their breasts.
Girls cannot touch the leaves or baskets with their hands, and besides owning a third breast size, as required plantations in girls should not have noticeable scars or wounds. By According to a company representative, these strange requirements are occurring. from the legend of how tea was gathered by the lips of fairies. Tea Collected in this way, endowed with the purity of virgins, which is transmitted whoever drinks this drink.
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