Steal of a Deal

Today I was making some homemade eatmore bars and I realized that I had forgot to buy peanuts so I went to a small family owned grocer/convenience store in the first floor of our building. The had lots of peanuts but none roasted, de-skinned and non-flavored. I wasn't going to buy any so they volunteered to make them how I wanted right there and teach me how to do it myself. Well I couldn't pass that up; home-roasted peanuts, a cooking lesson and consequently a chinese cooking vocabulary immersion opportunity! And I just had to pay the price of the peanuts which was less than a dollar. I offered them a tip but they wouldn't take it. so apparently roasting peanuts is pretty easy and quick. You just dry-fry them over low heat until they turn a dark reddish brown, wait for them to cool and rub them between your hands to get the shells off. At least that is one way of doing it. They are very tasty.
Co-workers here are very family like. There is often a kitchen in their shop and they cook together, eat together, clean-up together and even exercise together.

First thing in the morning you can see all the workers out on the sidewalk in front of their work-place doing exercises. Another interesting thing is that the all stand in formation like military when they are getting a pep talk.