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The Chinese-English dictionary turned out to be superfluous when it emerged that the Chinese taxi driver spoke a decent English.
“I bring lot of people to market,” he said.
Shimmy sat in the front seat with his hand luggage on his lap, alternately glancing out at the streets of Beijing and at the note in his hand.
“Why are the windows closed?”
“Soon is a smell of fish. Not Chinese person…not like smell of fish.”
Shimmy was ready to argue about the accuracy of this statement, but a moment later he discovered two things: Firstly, they were apparently very close to the fish market already, and second, Chinese fish were not at all like his mother’s gefilte fish, or Batya’s tilapia. Not the smell, at least.
“You want to meet in the market Shio Ching, the translator.” The driver stopped at a place where the road suddenly ended. “I bring lot of people to him. He knows also Hebrew a little, and he works with Israelis.”
“Yes, I know.” He looked out to the narrow street. “What is this?”
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