"Is that your best price for the squid?"

Here is a vendor at the fish market, negotiating a deal with his supplier on his iPhone. He has to hop up on the plastic stool to reach the counter, but that doesn’t slow him down much. I read an article in the paper today about a young Chinese woman who started her own vegetable business against some big hurdles, but “she is made of tough stuff and preserved”. In three years, she has achieved annual revenues of 1.5 million yuan (that’s a lot of lettuce). She doesn’t look much older than this little fishmonger.