Smelly noodles, noisy kids? Navigating public space etiquette!

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  discussion keeps the world turning this is round table You're listening to Roundtable with myself,

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  He Yang.

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  I'm joined by Steve Hatherly and Yu Shun in the studio.

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  Coming up, instant noodles used to be the default travel snack in China,

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  but some high-speed rail stations now have stopped selling them, saying the smell bothers others.

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  From cup noodles to noisy kids and dusty work clothes,

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  public transport is becoming a stage for clashes between personal choice and collective comfort.

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  So whose comfort should come first?

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  For Chinese train travelers in the 1990s, 2000s, and even the 2010s,

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  a boiling hot cup of instant noodles was the default quick fix on long journeys.

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