On each package, priced at 5 jiao (6 cents), is written that each bag includes a card with picture of a character from the Chinese classic novel Shuihuzhuan (Heros of the Marshes), and anyone who collects the pictures of all 108 characters in the novel could be awarded an mp3 player and a football.

One student claimed that he had bought 103 bags of noodles. As he is tired of eating the noodles, he often kept the card and threw the noodles in the rubbish bin. So far nobody in the city is reported to have won the prize even though the deadline is just days away.  (www.cctv.com)