SW China's misty mountains produce spicy wasabi fortune CHONGQING, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Every morning, freshly-cut wasabi departs Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, in cold trucks. After reaching a factory, the wasabi is washed, trimmed, sliced, checked twice, flash-frozen and then stored. "One production line handles two tonnes an hour," said Chen Xiaolong, executive director of Chongqing Chun Weilai Industrial Co., Ltd. Once this process has been completed, the frozen wasabi travels by cold chain to buyers at home and abroad. However, about three decades ago, the only green cash crop in this region was tobacco. The scenario changed when Lai ... [Read more]