The sisters walked back to Chinatown.... They walked past the vegetable, fish, and meat markets — not as abundant as in Canton, the carp not as red, the turtles not as old — and entered the cigar and seed shop. Brave Orchid filled her sister's thin hands with carrot candy, melon candy, and sheets of beef jerky.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)