The Root of the Matter

A Chinese medicine store in Causeway Bay has small ginseng roots in decorative boxes displayed in the window.

View large image Get a load of the price tags. The one on the left is $67,678.

$67,678? For a freaking root?? That's over US$8,700. It'd be cheaper to fly to where they grow and dig one up yourself.

Aside from its medicinal properties, for that much money, it had damn well better make me immortal.

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