<i>“Bean sprouts are still our most popular item,” said Zeng Wen</i><p><i>The most common explanation on the streets was that the floral fascinators just looked cute — “meng meng da,” in a cloying term made popular on the Internet.</i><p>I suspect a pun here. The <i>meng</i> character is 萌, which literally means &quot;sprout&quot;[1], and is related to the Japanese &quot;moe&quot; concept[2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;%E8%90%8C" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;%E8%90%8C</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Moe_(slang)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Moe_(slang)</a>