Nut Job

Stop right there, it's not what you think. The roadside transaction you're looking at the bottom half of involves betel nut, the mildly stimulating natural intoxicant favored by a wide variety of less-privileged Asians, including in Taiwan where this photo was taken. Wikipedia explains the phenomenon of the Taiwanese bīnláng xīshī, or "betel-nut beauty":

Taiwanese betel nut kiosks, heavily decorated with bright neon lights, are most common on highways and suburban roads in the western part of the island, such as around Taichung. The main clientele is composed of truck drivers who chew the mildly addictive nuts for the stimulant to help them stay awake on long trips. The high profitability of betel nut production and commerce has led to a multiplication of such kiosks, and as competition for customers' attention has increased, the girls staffing them have been wearing less and less. In 2002, local governments began to ban nudity and excessively revealing clothing in betel nut kiosks...

The girls are so popular, they've spawned a line of action figures:
This is the real thing:
Two more real things:
Besides the ones shown here, there are about 59,996.5 other betel nut girls in Taiwan, according to Bloomberg. And they're quite well documented by an army of fans. There's a set of more than 200 photos on Flickr tagged with "betel nut". And the innocently-named David's Guide to Taiwan has a comprehensive list of betel-nut-girl resources on the web.

It's a nutty job, but somebody's got to do it.