#金价突破5200美元 The Golden Age in Fire Chicken Noodles
When the news broke that gold prices had surpassed $5,500 per ounce, I was stirring my bowl of fire chicken noodles. The crimson sauce wrapped around the noodles like some abstract price chart. The “ding” of a successful electronic payment sounded, and this pack of noodles cost me 15 yuan—three years ago, it was only 8 yuan. I snapped open the disposable chopsticks and suddenly realized that these fine wooden sticks might be more expensive than some of the things in my bowl.
After the first bite, a burning sensation exploded from my tongue. Th