Pandas and Ears of Corn
February 26th, 2009 | Categories: Travel | 8 Comments
In July 2008 when I was in Hong Kong, I went to Ocean Park amusement park to spend the day there with my cousins. Much fun was had by all, from the rollercoasters, the water rides, the dolphin show, and the other various attractions Ocean Park has to offer. I’ve always loved Ocean Park, and my favorite attraction there is the giant panda exhibit. Pandas are my most favorite animal, and I love visiting Le Le, Ying Ying, An An, and Jia Jia (the four pandas in the exhibit).
It was as I was entering the exhibit that I noticed there were a line of plastic pandas decorating the side of the queue and the entrance of the exhibit. These plastic pandas had their heads sticking out of ears of corn. I’m not quite sure what the meaning/symbolism behind it is, if there is any. There were also panda heads sticking out of bamboo sticks, which made more sense, since pandas and bamboo are related, but all of the plastic pandas, whether it had a corn or bamboo body, were just weird. Why were their heads sticking out of the corn/bamboo? Are pandas cuter when their head is attached to the top of a vegetable rather than a panda body? Or am I just having a really thick moment (well, thick eight months or so, seeing as this was taken last July!) and missing something completely obvious?
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Hi, I'm Manda. I'm a college student studying communications and languages. I like to read, shop, bake, and travel. I have a tendency to listen to my favorite songs on repeat for hours on end. Sometimes I catch myself thinking in a language other than English. 
Obviously you don’t keep up with the latest zoological news, otherwise you’d have heard of this new super breed of Corn Panda, or… Canda’s (I could have gone with Porns, but didn’t. How grown up I am XD)
No, I’ll be honest. I’m just as baffled. Maybe they’re zoo-based decorater has just discovered surrealism?
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I think you can explain it with one sentence: “It’s Hong Kong, anything goes”. :P
Yeah, the corn body makes it infinitely cuter ;D Candas — the first in a new generation of animal-food breeds.
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I have no idea if it means anything, but it’s cute. Pandas are always cute. If they have panda bodies or corn bodies or whatever, they’ll still be cute. :)
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I had a photo with them. :D And I had to be physically removed/dragged out of the panda exhibit after witnessing LeLe do a poo. :D
Hong Kong people have the highest average IQ, so my guess is that there is a logic, very very intelligent one I deduce. XD Maybe they like eating corn?
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Vegetable animals… oh the things people come up with. Haha.
I love pandas. :) Those are really cute. In my opinion, pandas can be associated with anything. Like sticking out from a teacup? Maybe the concept is just to look cute?
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