Food odor

Getting into cabs in Beijing you're sometimes overwhelmed by what Meagan calls "the odor of hot wet foot cheese." To me, one is reminded more of dried sausages and cigarettes, but to each their own. The food here is so pungent and flavorful that it's typical you're carrying it around with you for a while afterward. In particular, the smell of Sichuan peppercorns, 花椒 huajiao, mixed with garlic is one that you're constantly smelling. It was surprising to see a cabdriver wince as I got into the cab and told him where to go, as he asked me rhetorically, "So you've just eaten, no? Man, you got a food smell to you!" I had just had soba noodles soaked in huajiao and garlic for lunch. Apparently growing more and more like a Chinese cab driver every day here, eating habits and otherwise...