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Time: 5:45 am

Location: A breakfast store at the entrance of Kaihe Food Market

Figure: Zheng Yituan (first left)

This small shop gets busy around 4:30 am, when Zheng Yituan and other workers start making dough, boiling water and preparing stuffing to fill steamed buns. They will not have a break until steam begins to rise up from the bamboo steamers.