The world of commerce is a strange, strange place.
Enterprising people wanting to make a living and earn a buck or two can think of creative
ways to sell a product or service and China is no exception.
Being a quirky country, you would think that with a strict government people are restricted
from selling goods and services but that is not the case.
From live crabs that can be bought in vending machines to animal brains you can buy online,
China has one of the most colourful marketplaces in the streets or on the internet.
So in today's list we are counting down to the 5 weirdest services you can buy in
China whether it's online or in a physical store.
I'm telling you guys now, some of these are quite hilarious and creative!
Number Five: Robot Chef Service Chinese food is awesome.
Each dish is a one of a kind gastronomic experience.
No wonder that the cuisine has endured for thousands of years, but these days, China
has stepped it up a bit more and introduced robots into the equation.
Yes, robots!
Besides, everything seems to taste better when it is prepared by the skilful hands of
a cold, metallic automaton and it is a growing trend in the country.
In 2011, an inventor named Cui Runquan created a robot named "Chef Cui" that is programmed
to prepare shaved noodles, a popular food item in Chine where noodles are shaved by
hand from a block of dough and then boiled.
Selling for about $2000 apiece, the Chef Cui robots are now being mass produced and have
sold more than 3000 units.
A fast food chain in Shanghai, on the other hand, made the bold decision to use robots
as the chefs in the kitchen.
Obviously, the benefit to having these mechanized cooks is efficiency since a single robot can
wash pots and pans, combine the ingredients, cook, and plate the order in three minutes.
Impressive, right?
But if cooking robots isn't your cup of tea, then head on down to a place called the
Dalu Robot Restaurant and have your food served by robots.
Programmed like clockwork, the six server robots follow a rotation system that allows
them to efficiently serve the restaurant's twenty-one tables before returning to the
kitchen for the next wave of orders.
Number Four: Traffic Jam Stand-ins With a population of 1.3 billion people, it
would be a miracle if traffic runs as smooth as a well buttered pan.
China has one of the world's most notorious traffic jams that last for hours and even
weeks!
It's no joke that traffic jams of such a magnitude can cause serious blows to businesses
because of the delays it causes but, turning lemons into lemonade.
We have all heard of a service where people hire other people just to stand in line for
them at the movies for that midnight screening or wait in a queue for you for those concert
tickets that you have been waiting for since forever.
In China, they take this a step, in a weird almost practical way, further.
Several Chinese entrepreneurs had a big idea of creating a service where you can call someone
to stand-in for you in case you get stuck in a horrible traffic jam.
The service is quite simple.
When you are stuck in a potentially hopeless gridlock, all you have to do is call the service
and give them your location and information.
Two men on motorcycle will arrive shortly after placing the call.
The Traffic Jam Stand-in will sit in the car for you and drive it to wherever you need
your vehicle to be while you get to ride on the motorcycle and be driven to where you
have to be whether it's a meeting or a date!
For the meantime, the service is mostly offered around the region of Wuhan in Central China
where traffic is known to be one of the worst in the country.
Number Three: A Boyfriend or Girlfriend Well, technically you can't buy a boyfriend
or girlfriend but you can rent one for a day or for however long you want!
When it comes to being in a relationship or having one is a big deal in China that it
exerts a degree of pressure on young, singles especially during family gatherings where
questions on the subject get asked quite frequently.
This pressure has then become the springboard for a business idea where people can hire
someone to be his or her significant other in order to fend off unwanted snooping from
nosey relatives.
The service does not come cheap, however, as prices typically are at a minimum of 1000
RMB per day.
Not only that, the amount only covers the "rental" service.
A boyfriend or girlfriend will be at your side for that price but if you want to push
the illusion further, additional charges will be made for things like hugs, hand holding,
and the like.
Also, should the "renter" require the boyfriend or girlfriend to stay longer than
a day then he or she is responsible for accommodations, food, transportation, and any other things
that are necessary.
While there might be a degree of temptation to this service, sexual favors are not part
of the bargain.
Number Two: Hire a White Guy We kid you not.
In China, you can actually hire a white person.
Following the same vein as "Hire a Boyfriend or Girlfriend", renting a White person,
a real-live Caucasian, serves the market of businessmen more than those who are looking
for an arranged date to bring to your mom's birthday.
In China, it is generally believed that Western businesses and businessmen are successful
compared to any part of the globe and for a Chinese entrepreneur to be seen standing
next to a foreign "business partner" is a sign of status and success.
It's a little bit superficial but if it works for the system then the people behind
this is milking the cash cow quite comfortably.
With this service, Chinese businessmen, whether seasoned or fledglings, can hire an actor
to stand in as a business partner at whatever function that he is required to attend.
Most of the time, the actor is just asked to stand next to the one who hired him or
her and not say a word, creating the illusion that he does not speak a single word of Chinese
in a conspicuously Globalized world of business.
In fact, these actors come armed to the teeth with fake business cards, wearing sharp suits
that make them appear as big shots in their respective "industries".
Sometimes though, the actor will be asked to play a small role such as deliver a speech.
One actor named Jonathan Zatkin recalls an experience where he was paid to deliver a
speech at an opening of a local jewelry store and say "how wonderful it was to work with
the company for 10 years".
Zatkin also reveals the requirements of the job are quite straightforward: You have to
be White; you don't have to know Chinese or just speak unless you are asked; and you
have to look like you just got off a plane when you arrive at an event.
Number One: Virgin Tea Our top spot may not technically be a service
that anyone may take advantage of but it is something that a few entrepreneurs and large
scale tea plantations have benefitted from.
One of these plantations is the Jiuhua Tea Plantation in the Henan province who have
published a job posting looking for female virgins with C-cup breasts to "pick tea
by grabbing the leaves with their lips and dropping them in a basket nestled between
their breasts."
According to a plantation spokesperson, this requirement follows an ancient Chinese legend
about how tea leaves were delicately plucked and collected by the mouths of fairies.
With this supernatural method, the tea is believed to be infused with magical properties
such as the virility and purity of virgins.
Since fairies and pixies are hard to come by in a tight global economy, the Jiuhua Plantation
opted to hire female virgins, believing that it will yield the same results as their elfish
predecessors.
The job requirement is as equally colourful as the legend the plantation takes stock into:
the women are not allowed to tough the leaves or the basket with their hands for fear of
some kind of earthly contamination.
Also, on top of the rather specific C-cup requirement, women who are interested in applying
for the position should not have any kind of visible scarring, wounds, or skin conditions.
The job requirements and description could be seen as ludicrous by outsiders but what's
even more bizarre is that there actually are women who are willing to sell their services
for the plantation.
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