So now for an account of "the bizarre." Over the next few days, we explored around Shanghai, ate some great food, and had taco salad three or four times for dinner (at dad's request).
Oddity number one: Chinglish. I'm sure if we had Chinese signs hanging around the translations would be just as bad, right?
I had no idea burning cultural relies was such a problem in China.
Anyone know what Fits are?
Name of a bakery.
Oddity number two: Laundry on the street. Due to lack of dryers and living space (I'm guessing), most housewives hang their laundry outside. If they are above the ground floor of an apartment building, they have the luxury of hanging their unmentionables above eye level. However, there are those unfortunate several who find it a necessity to hang them closer to the ground. As seen here.
Yes, that is an apron hanging from a street sign and the handlebar of a motorcycle. Luckily they have their pet bunny to stand guard.
Number three: Crazy Carts. In order to maximize efficiency, the Chinese have mastered piling three to four carts' worth of stuff onto one! More often than not they remain safely fastened to the carts, but sometimes, as we saw on the freeway when someone had lost three or four mattresses from out of the back of their open vehicle, it all comes tumbling off.
Yes, that is a teeny, tiny little cart under all of those chairs.
Ingenuity at its finest.
