On Lighting, plastic and fire-safe.

(Hello from the coastal town of La Gi, after a 100 k ride today!

The internet connection is slow as a slug and I have some logistical research I need to do; but I shall write a short thing anyway.)

You know how in the USA we have those plastic candles with little lightbulbs in them, rather than real flames, sometimes used to decorate around Christmas or in old houses trying to be quaint? 

Well, I'm sitting here in a grungy internet cafe in the small Vietnamese town of La Gi, and there is a shrine on the wall to--I'm assuming--the ancestors of the proprietor's, or maybe a great national leader. And there are those similar little glowing lightbulbs.

At the ends of plastic sticks of incense.
Only in Southeast Asia.