ChiNA town

I experienced culture shock this summer when I was in Hollywood. My mom, cousin, grandma, and I went to China Town. There we walked around, bought some stuff, and just looked at everything they had in these shops. There was one store imparticular that was very interesting to me and made me feel very sheltered. We walked into a grocery store, and it was the weirdest thing I had ever seen. Evertyhing was dried up and looked like sticks. However, the place was crowded with shoppers. In the back of the store, we noticed a counter with a woman putting different "ingredients" together. We asked what she was doing and she explained she was putting together a prescription. In the corner of the grocery store is a doctor that you can go to with an ailment. He then writes up a prescription of different things to put together and the lady behind the counter gets it ready for you. Everything she was putting on the plate looked like leaves, sticks, grass, and other things from nature. The prescription that is written up is literally 1 lb of basil, 4 grams of oak leaves, or whatever they use. The lady described that this is their way of life. You would go here for anything you need a prescription for. She thought it was weird that I had never heard of a prescription like that!