Typical street in China - shops and restaurants on the bottom level, apartments above.
Typical shop full o'stuff. These are everywhere, with apartments above them with laundry hanging on each balcony.
Typical menu at a local restaurant. Just point at what you want if you can't speak Chinese, and hope it's something you recognize!
Many business set up right on the street - you can get tailor work done or shoe repair just by walking up to the people who set up shop on the sidewalk.
There are many little restaurants with plastic tables and chair set up on the sidewalk or street - they are usually packed with people at night. People just sit and hang out, eat, drink, smoke, leave their trash on the ground and somebody else comes up and sweeps it all away by morning.
Many, many foot massage places in China. Foot massages are a cheap treat and very popular with local Chinese as well as foreigners like us.
Some have very well-dressed women at the entrance to make people want to come in and get a foot massage. It's also normal to see people in eveningwear just going out shopping or to lunch or even up the mountain. People wear just about anything to do everything - if you have fancy clothes, you wear them, you don't save them for special occasions.
This is how our pizza and other food items get delivered - by electric bike!
Typical street in China - shops and restaurants on the bottom level, apartments above.
Typical shop full o'stuff. These are everywhere, with apartments above them with laundry hanging on each balcony. 
Typical menu at a local restaurant. Just point at what you want if you can't speak Chinese, and hope it's something you recognize!
Many business set up right on the street - you can get tailor work done or shoe repair just by walking up to the people who set up shop on the sidewalk.
There are many little restaurants with plastic tables and chair set up on the sidewalk or street - they are usually packed with people at night. People just sit and hang out, eat, drink, smoke, leave their trash on the ground and somebody else comes up and sweeps it all away by morning.
Many, many foot massage places in China. Foot massages are a cheap treat and very popular with local Chinese as well as foreigners like us.
This is how our pizza and other food items get delivered - by electric bike! 
1 comment:
always interesting to see how people in other countries live! Kinda looks a bit like China town in NYC!
thanks for sharing...did you get your tatoo yet? I'll never forget the day Alexa coming home and telling me that you had a tattoo!!!!!!
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