National Holiday in Beijing. Some Chinese rest 2 days, some 3, some one week. But how about the cows?
I buy WonderMilk, a brand established in Beijing by some Californians back in 2004. They started - at least their website says so - with 180 New Zealand Holstein cows and they reached 6000 in 2010. Their milk is far better than the Chinese average (and the price is also quite higher: 1/2 l of Sanyuan is 3RMB as against 14RMB of WonderMilk) and that's why I started drinking it. My stomach and overall organism has thanked me since.
Now, I have been to the little shop downstairs selling the brand. Even yesterday (October 6th) they were still displaying the cartons dated September 29 and 30. And of course nobody would buy it. But what's the story behind it? Are the cows still on holiday? Or the delivery boy went back home to some far-off place in Sichuan and nobody replaced him? Or WonderMilk is regularly delivering their milk but the shopowners are accumulating it in their backyard hoping to sell the Sept. 30 bottles?
Mystery.
I buy WonderMilk, a brand established in Beijing by some Californians back in 2004. They started - at least their website says so - with 180 New Zealand Holstein cows and they reached 6000 in 2010. Their milk is far better than the Chinese average (and the price is also quite higher: 1/2 l of Sanyuan is 3RMB as against 14RMB of WonderMilk) and that's why I started drinking it. My stomach and overall organism has thanked me since.
Now, I have been to the little shop downstairs selling the brand. Even yesterday (October 6th) they were still displaying the cartons dated September 29 and 30. And of course nobody would buy it. But what's the story behind it? Are the cows still on holiday? Or the delivery boy went back home to some far-off place in Sichuan and nobody replaced him? Or WonderMilk is regularly delivering their milk but the shopowners are accumulating it in their backyard hoping to sell the Sept. 30 bottles?
Mystery.
| This is what a New Zealand Holstein cow looks like |
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