I was at Fuxhou Lu today browsing the art shops in the rain. I was hungry and one of the shopkeepers said I could get some nice dumplings around the corner at the juncion of Hankou Lu. He was correct – they were brilliant and cheap. On my way back to Fuzhou Lu I spotted… Read More »
Who needs expensive stapping to hold down industrial sized rolls of steel cable when gravity will do the trick? I suppose this was the thinking behind the packing decisions of this Chinese company. Perhaps the load was only going a short distance and they didn’t deem it necessary. Luckily my taxi driver was keeping his… Read More »
I walk past this queue every morning to go to work and it seems to be getting longer. Now there are barriers for help with crowd control. The two queues stretch right down HuaiHai Lu almost to Chengdu Lu and this morning the pavement was made even more perilous by a hanful of entrepreneurial women… Read More »
I have been to Nanchang before – passed through is on the slow train to Ganzhou and didn’t like what I saw – lots of greyness, dirty streets, rain and low visibility. Mind you, I didn’t actually leave the railway station so my opinion of the place was formed from that limited viewpoint. However, I… Read More »