Blowing an egg out of it's shell

Perhaps it is some sort of party trick, but one of my students "performed" this act several times last night. When plates of boiled eggs came to the table he gently crushed one end of the shell, and removed a few pieces, then put the egg to his lips and blew the whole eggshell off, and presented a cleanly shelled egg.

Amazing. Who would have thought of doing that??

Eggs anyone?

In the back streets and lanes behind old Shanghai there are little stalls everywhere. Some stall holders squeeze into a tiny space and make a regular business work from premises so small you wonder how they even move in the space.

Some just "open shop" on the roadway - but thousands of people pass - it is continual traffic, so these little businesses seem to thrive.

This egg man sold all sorts of eggs - chicken, duck, quail and others. An array of colours and sizes neatly in the boxes on the pavement outside another little shop.

Full marks to Chinese people - they seem to find a niche - and manage a small, and possibly lucrative business without many overheads.