Documentary celebrates food’s various shapes and sizes, giving viewers a wider choice, Li Yingxue reports.
In supermarkets, shoppers may find that fruit and vegetables are almost uniform in size and neatly arranged on the shelves according to the requirements of the supermarkets.
However, at a vibrant outdoor bazaar in Feixian county, Linyi, Shandong province, the aspect of vegetables that attracts many shoppers is their unique shapes, such as thin, “snakelike” melons, “multi-legged” radishes, eggplants that appear to wave hello and potatoes that look like ducks.
One of the vendors, Cui Jingyu elaborates on selling his oddly shaped, peculiar-looking melons. “These are first-harvest melons. Due to their nonstandard shapes, supermarkets don’t accept them, but they taste really good. Let me open one up so you can try it,” Cui yells to buyers.
His melons quickly sell out, with many customers asking for more.