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(UBC) "She had a drawer filled with disposable chopsticks, and she pretty much opened the drawer and looked at me and said 'Felix, do something with this,'" he said.

Disposable chopsticks are often sold in Xi'an markets for light industrial products. One of them had 2,000 pairs of the utensils for sale for 55 yuan.

He likes the chopsticks because nobody ever has to wash them, which lowers his labor costs. "I bought 100 pairs of disposable chopsticks for less than 3 yuan," Jin said.