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Jin Muchen has also visited such markets in New York and Washington, D.C., but those markets are very neat, and usually stall owners will build a small shed, make a simple shelf, and place the items sold on the shelves.

But in this market, the style of business is obviously much rougher than that on the east coast, and there are no stalls built in small sheds and no shelves.

Of course, this may also have a lot to do with the fact that the weather here is very different from that of the East Coast, and California can be said to be one of the most natural weather states in the United States, because it is close to the Pacific Ocean, so it has a typical maritime climate.

The temperature difference between morning and evening is relatively large, but the temperature difference throughout the year is not very large, and now it is still a snowy winter in New York, but the average temperature here is about 20 degrees.

At this time in New York, you still have to wear down jackets and winter boots, but the white people in natural sweaters and pants here are basically dressed in short-sleeved T-shirts.

Many owners simply spread a blanket on the ground and put the items they sold on these blankets.

Some are more simply, directly a few cardboard boxes, all kinds of miscellaneous things are thrown inside, what you want to see you can turn over casually, find useful to take away, or simply take the whole box away, of course, the premise is that the bid is reasonable.

Others simply drove a van by themselves, the back door opened, and the things they wanted to buy were spread on the floor of the car. Or on the ground.

The business style of the whole market is almost the same as that of the bulk market in the rural areas of China. The only difference is that there are zones based on what you're selling.

For example, it is a precinct to buy second-hand clothing and furniture. There is a district for sundries, a district for buying second-hand electrical appliances, and another area for handicrafts or sporting goods.

The area is clearly divided, and it is not so tiring to walk around.

Jin Muchen came out of the hotel early and didn't even eat breakfast, just to have a good look at this market, and with his experience. He knew that in such a market, there would definitely be no shortage of stalls to buy snacks.

As expected, at the entrance of the market, there are some stalls selling snacks, all kinds of flavors from various countries, and there are even some stalls from the surrounding countryside that come to the city to buy vegetables.

He bought a taco at a Mexican stall and ate it, first going to the area where he bought second-hand clothes and old furniture, which took more than an hour, but he didn't get much out of it.

For more than an hour, he basically just watched the flowers. There are similar markets in Manhattan, but there are second-hand clothes and furniture markets in San Francisco. Obviously not as professional as the New York side.

It may also be because there are many wealthy European immigrants in New York, because those wealthy European immigrants in the early years brought a lot of fine wooden furniture from Europe, so the second-hand furniture market there is much more professional than here.

Therefore, Jin Muchen basically didn't look at the second-hand furniture here, it was generally twenty or thirty years old, and the goods that were fifty or sixty years old were for a longer time.

According to the eyes of the Chinese, these cannot be called antiques at all, but the old beauty is different, because the history of the founding of the country is short, so in their opinion, such furniture, as long as the materials are good, the carving is delicate, and the preservation is well-preserved, as long as it is more than 20 years, it can basically be called an antique.

As for those second-hand clothes, Jin Muchen didn't find any eye-catching goods.

There are more big stars in New York, and there are more celebrities who can leave their names in American history, so they leave behind a lot of second-hand clothes, and many boutiques can be included in the ranks of antiques.

But not so in San Francisco, where it is said that if you want to collect such second-hand antique clothes, it is best to go to Los Angeles on the West Coast, so this market in San Francisco is a bit lackluster.

After walking around, there was no gain, and I went to the second-hand electrical appliance market again, and there was no gain, but Jin Muchen was not disappointed, after all, with the pen holder from Qianlong's imperial collection yesterday, this trip to the West Coast was not in vain.

It seems that this market is a bit overestimated, Jin Muchen turned around, and let out such a sigh, I originally thought that I could see many Chinese-style antiques in this market, but I didn't expect to see a few at all.

There are only a few sporadic stalls with a few pieces of Chinese-style porcelain, and when you get closer, you can see that they are either modern imitations, or export porcelain that he doesn't like very much and is not very popular with the market, which is not much to see.

In fact, the reason for this is that his expectations are too high, if he had come a few years earlier, he would have been able to see a lot of old Chinese objects in this market, but in the past few years, it will not work.

Mainly because in recent years, a large number of Chinese have come here to shop, and the market here has basically been swept many times by those pioneers.

And the owners here have dealt with the Haitao people who come to sweep the goods after a few dealings, and they are all proficient, but if there is a little Chinese-style porcelain or antiques at home, they would rather spend some money to do an appraisal themselves.

If it is genuine, the quality and high quality will be auctioned, and the slightly worse grade will be sold to the antique store on Jackson Street, where can there be a chance for Jin Muchen to pick up the leak?

After shopping for a while, I felt a little sore shoulder, I just arrived in Los Angeles the day before yesterday, and I didn't have much rest, so I drove directly to San Francisco, even if he was in good health, he felt a little tired at this time.

Just at the junction of several different sections of the market, there are a few massage stalls, and almost all of the stalls are Chinese.

Jin Muchen has visited similar markets, he has known such massage stalls for a long time, most of them are made by mainland immigrants, but unlike those massages in China that sell dog meat with sheep's heads, the massage here is a formal massage.

And the masseurs are almost all men, because the men are strong, and the female masseurs are not strong enough.

There are quite a lot of people who come here for massage, generally charged according to the process, back massage, neck massage, and head massage, a process of ten to fifteen yuan, about ten minutes, all the process can be discounted if you go one set.

The owner of this stall saw Jin Muchen stop in front of his stall and look at it for a while, and hurriedly greeted him very warmly, soliciting customers in broken English.

"Hehe, just speak Chinese, I'll wait for him to finish it, I'm doing it."

Jin Muchen said to this stall owner with a smile, pointing to a guy who was massaging an old man hard, this guy is not tall, but the exposed arm is like a small crab pincer, and looking at the technique is also quite old-fashioned, Jin Muchen wants this guy to rub his shoulders and neck, this stall owner is an old lady in her fifties, as soon as she heard Jin Muchen speak Chinese, she immediately changed to a kind smile.

"That, big brother, you wait a while, I'll let the cub make you a full set, a big discount, just twenty yuan!"

The stall owner is full of big Dutch accent, and it sounds very cordial.

Her business is very hot in this stall, there are two masseurs in total, one big and one small, it seems that it should be the two of them, but the business is very hot, there are several waiting in line, and there seem to be many repeat customers, from time to time there will be passing whites, old ink or blacks to greet them.

"Big brother, where is your hometown? How long have you been in the U.S.? ”

This aunt is very talkative at first glance, and now the business is also very hot, she is not in a hurry to attract customers, and finally met a Chinese speaker in this big market, and this aunt is even more enthusiastic.

"My hometown is over there, and I've been here for two years, but I'm usually on the East Coast, and this time I'm here for a tour......"

Jin Muchen smiled and talked with this aunt, there are not a few Chinese in the United States, but Jin Muchen has really never met a few people who can be so enthusiastic as this aunt.

This aunt is a typical style of enthusiastic aunts in China, once I get acquainted with you, I can't wait to talk to you about my heart and lungs, and in just a few minutes, I will introduce the situation of this market to Jin Muchen.

Then he talked about a lot of local situations in San Francisco, such as the beautiful and fun scenic spot, the inexpensive hotel to live in, the delicious food in that restaurant, etc., all of which were told to Jin Muchen one by one.

Just when the aunt introduced Jin Muchen to the snacks of the stall in this market that were delicious and cheap, suddenly a fierce quarrel broke out on her stall.

The aunt turned her head and hurried over, it turned out to be the older masseuse, who was arguing with a white middle-aged man.

That uncle's English is not very good, and when he speaks English, he will be stuck after a few words, and then he will pop out a few words of big Dutch scolding his mother.

When the aunt came to the front, the young masseur had just finished what he was doing and walked over, but he was much more fluent in English than the uncle.

There was a group of people around to watch the excitement, and Jin Muchen also came over with a smile, it turned out that the matter was very simple.

The middle-aged bald white man didn't want to give money after the massage, and insisted that the aunt said that it was free when he pulled him in, and it seemed that he wanted to repay the debt.

This kind of thing happens almost every day in such a market, so it is not uncommon, and everyone is accustomed to seeing the lively customers who come to visit and the stall owners who set up stalls.

Originally, things should have settled down soon, but today the situation is a little wrong, but it is a bit noisy and more powerful, especially which bald white middle-aged man, and then he kept popping out of his mouth with swear words starting with f, and finally even some suspected racist words were used, and the atmosphere began to quietly change a little.

The pair of aunts and uncles didn't speak English very well, and they might not understand what this guy was scolding, but the young guy with good English had already clenched his fists. (To be continued......)