Eight things I got used to after moving to China

Gardens

Any little available patch of ground is planted. In the no-man's land to the rear of our campus you will find people trudging, pail and implements in hand, to tend to their vegetables. You might also smell the (human waste) fertilizer... not a pleasant smell at all. Once, I even saw a man tending a vegetable garden he had planted on a highway median. I doubt that, anywhere in the west, one would find such an abundance of gardens.

Tourists pick vegetables in a garden in Beijing's Daxing district in December. [Photo/ Xinhua]