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Sat Jul-12-08 01:37 PM
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17. Try taking a picture of a Chinese herb shop

When I was in Hong Kong, I noticed some gigantic ginseng roots in frames at the top of an herb shop. The biggest ginseng roots I've ever seen and each one was in its own case that looked like a picture frame. I guess they were for sale. I wasn't even inside the shop, I was standing outside in front of the shop, and lifted my camera up to take a picture of them. A man ran out yelling at me not to take the picture. Apparently they believe if you take a picture of those, it steals away the potency of them, or scares away the spirits in them or something. I thought this was pretty weird.

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