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Where to buy glasses in Shanghai
Need new peepers? If you have your script handy there are plenty of places around town to get a stylish pair of glasses at a fraction of the cost you’d pay back home. When I was a wee new expat I was scratching my head at some of the asking prices of glasses around the [...]
I have a dream…
Well actually, I don’t. But, I recently found a t-shirt in Shanghai with a print on it I instantly recognised from a place I used to live near in Sydney: The painting is famous if you’re ever in King Street, Newtown. It uses the words of Martin Luther King Jr. painted on the Aboriginal flag.
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Pandamonium
Ah yes, this t-shirt works on so many levels: From Threadless
How to recharge a China Mobile card in English
The title of today’s post suggests this has been something I’ve found difficult to do without the help of the lovely lady in the convenience store who obviously thinks I’m as retarded as I look. However, today the shopkeep’s daughter was crying in the store and she was pre-occupied with other customers so I got [...]
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Shanzhai eye: Dike shoes
I love Shanzhai (山寨) goods, aka counterfeit knockoffs, in China. Whenever there’s a fashionable good, a group of entrepreneurial go-getters are ready to re-create said good and serve it up in the fake markets. In Shanghai, western tourists can be seen flocking to the markets for a bit of brand-name Shanzhai action and scuttling out [...]
Past and present: Huangpu Park
Huangpu Park located at the northern end of the Bund is a small green area with a colourful past. In the ye olde racist days the foreign powers that ran Shanghai excluded Chinese from entering the Park. Here is the official sign that was once at the gate: In the kung foo movie “Fist of [...]
Shanghai Ugg boots
While it’s well known that ginger kids are best suited to colder weather, my feet have been walking iceblocks since Jack Frost rode into town recently. So, while walking around the street markets near Yuyuan Garden I was pretty chuffed to run into these Gorilla Ugg boots: Half man, half monkey and 40RMB poorer my [...]
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A small suggestion to the DVD shops…