Comfort food starting to come at heavy price
By Lu Haoting and Qu Xiaozhen | China Daily | Updated: 2008-04-24 07:16
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Customers select imported food in a supermarket in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, in this file photo. Many foreigners living in the country are feeling the pinch of rising food prices and the US dollar weakening against the yuan. Zhang Heping |
Bread, pasta, tortillas, canned fish and meat, dairy products, imported vegetables and fruits. These are staples of foreigners living in China. And that's precisely why spiraling food prices across the globe and the rise of the yuan against the US dollar have spelt double trouble for them.
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