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China DailyFarmers harvest gorgon fruits from a pond in Suzhou. XU JUNQIAN/CHINA DAILY By 9 o'clock every morning, 55-year-old Hu Xiuxia has been sitting on a small stool and peeling off white seeds from a pomegranate-like plant for almost three hours. The plant in Hu's hands is called gorgon fruit or nut, or "rice from chicken head" among locals, because the fruit looks like chicken head. From late August to mid-October every year, when the plant's seeds become edible, hundreds of middle-aged and more elderly women gather at the entrance of local wet markets and put on a pop-up show, stripping the fruit down to the delicately flavored seeds. Men wouldn't have the patience for the job, the women say, but an experienced woman can peel 2 to 3 kilograms of seeds every day, despite wearing iron fingertip protectors that preserve their fingernails as they work.
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