In the storefront of this shop specializing in afterlife currency (what one burns for one’s deceased family members who will then receive the dividend in the afterlife) all eye-level, sunlit space is valuable, and devoted to either goods display or utility storage.

The owner’s solution for drying his pumpkin seeds therefore involves some unlikely elements: a lid of a shoebox, some plastic string, a length of dried bamboo, and, to make the system function smoothly, a laundry-hanging pole.