Her interviews suggest it was imported in about 2003, by people working on a road bypassing Antananarivo, the country's capital.
Driving into Antananarivo also brought a pleasant surprise - the giant potholes which had blighted the capital had all been repaired.
His parents had traveled from Guangdong Province in southern China and settled in the capital city Antananarivo (and eventually owned several restaurants).
Supporters of his rival, Didier Ratsiraka, the ex-president who claims to be president still, tightened their economic blockade of the capital, Antananarivo.
Another CAF Cup match in Antananarivo the same weekend also went ahead.
On Saturday, 5, 000 of his supporters, clad in orange T-shirts and hats, gathered as Mr Rajoelina reappeared to speak at Antananarivo's 13 May Plaza.
Chiefs cited political strife in Madagascar, which had caused the airport in Antananarivo to be temporarily closed and flight schedules from Johannesburg to be reduced.
In Madagascar supporters of the ousted president, Didier Ratsiraka, blew up bridges and blockaded the capital, Antananarivo, which is held by his rival, Marc Ravalomanana.
The return match will be played a week later in Antananarivo.
At the weekend, Mr Rajoelina held a rally in Antananarivo and called for a general strike against the government, which he accuses of being a dictatorship.
All this has heartened Ravalomanana loyalists, who have begun staging what they hope will be daily demonstrations in Antananarivo, calling for a return to constitutional order.
ECONOMIST: The island��s new leader has yet to consolidate his power
By December 2001 owners of new textile factories in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, were worried that labour was running short, after 100, 000 jobs had been created.
Father Luca Treglia, the director of Catholic Radio Don Bosco in the capital, Antananarivo, told Fides that just before midday local time (09:00 GMT) when they spoke to their reporter in Mandritsara, shooting could be heard in the background.
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In Antananarivo I met oil prospectors, airline industry executives and agricultural exporters all trying to make contact with the president's office in the hope of securing an entry into the newly liberated markets abandoned by cronies of the old corrupt regime.
Immediately after the coup, Muammar Qaddafi, Libya's president and current chairman of the AU, who himself came to power in a coup 40 years ago, telephoned the 34-year-old former mayor of Antananarivo, Madagascar's capital, to say he would recognise the new regime.
ECONOMIST: The island��s new leader has yet to consolidate his power
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