Zing Tsjeng
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5,900 appearances
22 recordings
9 series
first heard May 2026
last heard today
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and has long been a big part of the cuisine there.
In fact, the indigenous people had used them to flavour their dishes instead of salt when it wasn't widely available.
So Tau used the local chilli peppers to make a sauce that soon became popular in the community.
It was spicier and crunchier than others.
Yeah, we're going to skip over a lot of the 1970s because there really isn't much information about her life there and we assume she was busy raising children.
In 1978, Deng Xiaoping initiated the reform and opening up policy and China then shifted away from a strictly state-planned economy, centralised economy, towards a more market-orientated model and
And for the first time since the People's Republic of China had been established, households were allowed to sell surplus produce in local markets after meeting state procurement quotas.
So there was a sudden boom in small scale market traders, especially in urban areas.
Yeah, that was the moment that the giant of China awoke, as people say, from its slumber back in the late 80s to the economic superpower it is today.
What a way to make a living, blimey.
Well, one day, Tao's husband fell sick.
He was diagnosed with emphysema, a progressive incurable lung disease.
All her savings went on his medical bills, and when that money ran out, she took out a loan and worked longer hours.
In 1984, her husband died, and Tao was left with two children and debt.
She continued working on the vegetable stall, but she could only save a few yuan each day, and this was about how much basic food cost her a day, so she's not getting anywhere.
Carrying rocks as your second job.
I mean, it doesn't get much tougher than that.
Well, as the economy opened up, more and more people were trading vegetables in the market.
Competitors were there.
They were willing to undercut her.
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