Hutong Culture (2)---food

I made some name mistakes in this automatically posted article. So here I am in Hangzhou and up here to correct the name of this Hutong, not Jiumen, its name is actually Xiaoyou. And Jiumen food court is a very famous food court in Beijing, I was told it has hundreds of years of history! And this is the gate of this food court.

@ xiaoyou hutong

@ Jiumen food court, locating in the middle of xiaoyou Hutong

Ok, don't laugh at me, I ate them all...

This is sweet.. I prefer the cheese more.

Baozi, but not 'typical' baozi..

Hutong Culture(1)

@Jiumen Hutong

I was thrilled that this fly focused his attention on that little bee, not my lense.

Sun shines in the morning Jingyu Hutong

I toured lots of Hutongs in Beijing, and here are some pictures with their interesting stories. These plants' photos were taken at the gates of several Hutong households.

Emerald green

They even plant pepper oustside their house!

Cane chairs in the Hutong @ late summer of 2008

I just bought my train ticket home, 15 hours on railway would be a very tiring work, so I'll schedual the posts and then have some good sleep!

Something About Shanghai

The crowded Shanghai alley by Akira ,

Look at the plates in this photo, foot massage,police station, railway ticket booth, hotels, restaurants selling all kinds of food from around China...and the crowds as well as those bicycles, all in one alley!

Take another look and you'll see this is also a residential area(starts from the second floor, the first has been occupied by these restaurants and shops), and that explains such a 'muti-functional' alley.

Take a third look at the backdrop, you'll see a totally different building, and that's the image of a metropolis.

This is typically Shanghai, also typically China.

The Fun of Bargain---100th post of HZDP!

Actually this photo was added later, it just occured to me this is the 100th post of HZDP, and it might be a little pity if we just upload two photos of other cities, so I asked my friend to send me one Hangzhou photo that he can be proud of, here it is! Hangzhou is always so beautiful, right?

@ Nanjing Road, Shanghai by Akira, most of you have been there, so I'll just save my energy for the next picture.

@ qianmen street, Beijing

I thought it's some kind of weird Italian pasta..Actually,a stall of jade bracelets.

Foreign visitors love it but probably too "rich" to cut the price..

I'll give you another example that I just 'witnessed' at Wongfujing Street.
Two foreign tourists pointed on two fans(made of wood), and typed "60" at a small calculator.(Vendors can't speak numbers in English, they only know "yes, no, you're joking, bottom, ok, thank you...")
The vendor then put on a really surprised expression and said "You are kidding, you like jokes" , typing "208" at the calculator. "Bottom"
And then goes several rounds of price typing..
(5 minutes later)
The two tourists looked at her angry face for a while as if they just did something wrong to her and said "Ok."
Well, the truth is we can buy them at 40 yuan , 40 for two.

I've guided a really good US business man before, and he was good at bargaining as we told him, "no matter what price you hear, what kind of facial expressions the vendors(mostly women) put on, just cling to your own price, you'll be mazed at your great harvest. "

Guys maybe feel losing face to bargain with a woman, but girls can stick to your own price.
And some tourists are more interested in bargaining than the product.A funny student tourist, always typing "1" at the calculator for all kinds of products, and then raise the price little by little.
He was just having fun while bargaining. Vendors' tones and facial expressions do change greatly with your price.

Funny tips:

1. the best would be asking the local people before you make your own price and dressing like a student.

2 your starting price should be lower than the real price that you have asked the local people about.

3. If the vendors say "No" to your price, you can "pretend" to leave as you move away "slowly", they will change their mind if your price is acceptable to them, if she didn't stop you, don't worry, the next stall probably has the same thing you wanted, and this time maybe you can higher your previous price a bit,but just a little bit.

(These words may not be 'distributed' as I still wish Chinese vendors good earnings. They are just normal people with poor incomes. )

Two Would Make Up For You

Er.. another piece of bad news for HZDP, Akira is in Shanghai now, so currently we only have some photos about Shanghai and Beijing.

Anyway, it's not a loss for you, you are more familiar with this two cities.

One in Shanghai 's subway by Akira and One about Beijing Roasted Duck by Zoe, actually this one is 'made' by Zoe, want to have a try?? I left this one for you haha.

Silk Wears

@ silk road in Hangzhou.

Silk, another symbol of this city.

These silk clothes are mobile phone wears and the cloth shoes on the lower shelf are for traditional chinese dresses, soft and comfortable.

And ...HZDP off a week for Mr. Liu xiang's hurdle competition. Good luck, my friends!

Panda feast

Ok, I've decided not to follow the rules of Daily Photo at this happy weekend.
It has nothing to do with Hangzhou, but I just watched a movie 'Kungfu panda',really funny, and I'm very much interested in pandas now.

here are some funny shots on the internet
http://qbar.qq.com/u2002461 the original post

Geez, I get stucked.
Gosh.. you are so heavy, gotta lose some weight

I'm the BOSS

It seems yours are more delicious.

"seek and hide"

Drank a little bit over last night, and she locked me outside the door..

Look! So many people get jailed!

I hate paparazzi! Get away!

oo7 girl

Too many homework today...

I belong to the first class

I'm a little down today

Don't you think it's a little bit impolite to watch me eating?

Hey hey , can you find me?

Mr.doctor....could you be kind enough to give me one???

Drop your gun!!

Sir,I promise I'll never do that again.

To be or not to be, it's a question..

Thomas circle

A moment of tribute..

Just for fun, hope you enjoy it~

Das Grüne Geschenk Cross My Path

If it weren't for this heavy storm, I could have been in Soul's Retreat Temple now(an amazing Buddhist temple, very famous in the Yangtze Delta region). But now it's raining cats and dogs out there. So..m sorry you can't see the amazing view of that temple, but that's ok, I'll make it up for u next weekend.
This photo was taken on my way home, the transparent emerald green makes me feel refreshed, this kind of plants are ubiquitous across Hangzhou, bacause they are the typical green belt plant, but they don't look so nice under the scorching sun, so I assume that's an unexpected gift for all the people who caught in the storm. ^.^

Glad To Back

Fast-pace Shanghai

Laid-back Hangzhou

It's always interesting to shuttle between the two cities because you can switch easily from a fast-pace job to a laid-back rest, and vice versa.