Food post 2. 糖炒栗子 Li zi (lit. Sugar roasted chestnut)

 

The sign you see above is for roasted chestnuts

天津 = Tianjin, a harbor in China, the place where I assume the chestnuts are imported from, though perhaps they are grown in Japan (note the white Japanese character on the top of the sign)

糖炒 = tang chao, "sugar roasted."  The chestnuts are put in a machine like a clothes dryer with sand and brown sugar.

栗子 = Li zi, "chestnuts."

半斤80元 = ban jin "ba shi" yuan (lit. Half kilo 80 yuan)

ㄧ斤150元 = yi jin "yi bai wu shi" yuan (lit. One kilo 150 yuan).

Currently, one US dollar is about 31 Taiwanese yuan.  So how much did I pay for the half kilo that I bought?

 Here's the video!