This photo taken at the front entrance of a typical Kung Fu Hosue in Taipei. there will demonstration of Kung Fu using sword and other weapons to chop the body but without hurting it no bllod no cut at all. The it was hard selling to guests the tactic used was simple one sales lady to one guests. The chances of guests no buying anythings was less than 5 %. The tour guide and tour operator will earn their profit from such type shopping arrangement. Most of the medicines cannot be effective in curing those uncurable like high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer etc. The shooping includes a Lingzi medical house that calim their Lingzi culd cure cancer and other illments that cannot be cure at all. However our tourists are stupid people especially the old woemn folk they just belive and buy.
However there is no more such shopping in Taipei when I re visited in 1998 and 2001 in facts all the souvenirs are now make in China.
Such type of shopping are now in China I notice it is the same kind of tactics use they must be from Taiwan but now move their operation to China. In China it is the worst tourists are taken to shopping stop of every kind for 4-5 stops per day spending 6 hiurs and sightseeing only 4-5 hours. I will touch on this shopping subject when I start to post for China 1996 onwards by end of the 2009.