Shanghai Pictures, Plus When The Care Bears Go Too Far
I found some pictures from Shanghai I never posted, thought some of you might enjoy seeing them. They are all cell phone pics, though, so not super high quality.
A hot water dispenser, very common in China. The Chinese characters say 'caution scalding', meaning scalding water, but the English 'care bear!'?? I can't even call this Chinglish or a mistranslation, this is just a joke someone played, right?
British style telephone booth, a cultural relic of the British occupation of Shanghai I assume. I was amazed how clean and empty the sidewalks of Shanghai were, compared to Chongqing:
An apartment courtyard; this picture makes me so homesick:
Little places to grab a cup of afternoon tea or coffee.
An aquarium in the pedestrian tunnel. I remember thinking how fancy Shanghai is compared to Chongqing, based on the underground tunnels alone. Wouldn't it be cool if your job was to take care of pedestrian tunnel aquariums?
In contrast, this is what I saw most nights on the sidewalk outside my gate in Chongqing. My taxi pulled up to this:
A hot water dispenser, very common in China. The Chinese characters say 'caution scalding', meaning scalding water, but the English 'care bear!'?? I can't even call this Chinglish or a mistranslation, this is just a joke someone played, right?
British style telephone booth, a cultural relic of the British occupation of Shanghai I assume. I was amazed how clean and empty the sidewalks of Shanghai were, compared to Chongqing:
An apartment courtyard; this picture makes me so homesick:
Little places to grab a cup of afternoon tea or coffee.
An aquarium in the pedestrian tunnel. I remember thinking how fancy Shanghai is compared to Chongqing, based on the underground tunnels alone. Wouldn't it be cool if your job was to take care of pedestrian tunnel aquariums?
In contrast, this is what I saw most nights on the sidewalk outside my gate in Chongqing. My taxi pulled up to this:
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PS - What scalding hot water has to do with care bears we'll never know! Weird, huh?
The garbage on the street, wow that could be Montreal! LOL
Care bear? Crazy.
Shanghai looks amazing!!!