another salty Chinese treat is salt cured plums - yum (in small doses)

Small doses, and not by surprise...My wife teaches Chinese students. One day one of them gave her and her fellow teacher what they thought were sugared plums. They stuffed them in their mouths. They'd never come across salt-cured plums before. They nearly choked. (A bit like someone on a previous thread who thought that Marmite must be some kind of Chocolate spread...)