At the nearby H&Y Marketplace, a grocery clerk danced and sang between the stacked sacks of rice and Korean melons, under banners of South Korean flags and red T-shirts.
Feast on a fill of beef wrapped in betel leaf, a stack of rice paper, a huge pile of herbs, noodles and peanuts, and all for just £1.
When a friend appeared with a stack of rice paper, Schendel found both her medium and – in a sense – her message.
On his desk were brushes of all sizes, an inkstone, a stack of rice paper for painting and calligraphy, a bronze paperweight and a marble one, and a lamp with a bridge and a pavilion exquisitely carved into the base; in his bookcase, the books were brittle and yellow, bound with strings that had come loose.
"When we distribute the goods" — foam mattresses, which were stacked to the ceiling, and sacks of rice and oil — "we tell them to line up, but they all push toward the front," one fireman told me.
The RHA was collected from the particulate collection equipment attached upstream to the stack of rice-fired boilers.
Now the laundry room shelves hold neatly stacked bags of rice and beans, five-gallon jugs of water and pyramids of canned tomatoes.
If the flimsiness of the lettuce parcels is too much for you, you can get a stack of sturdier rice paper for an extra buck.
Simple things like Pepsi have become a luxury item, she said, while hallways in many homes are now stacked with bags of rice and sugar.
Some carry hundreds of pounds of rice, stacked in several bags behind the driver and in front too.
