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On another night, we took a short walk on Queens Road Central to the Hong Kong Central - Mid-Level Escalator, which we took up to Mosque Rd. and the XOCO Mexican Cantina and Bar. On Facebook, they're at https://www.facebook.com/xocosoho/ A guy selling (and making) wooden watches. A nice arts & crafts idea, but I don't think so. The view at the entrance to the Escalator looking up along Shelly Rd. The elevated portion there is the Escalator. The escalator is a one-way escalator going UP, except in the morning when it goes DOWN (I guess for people heading to work). It was built in 1994 and is the longest outdoor escalator in the world, at 2,600 feet. It was built in sections, and is very easy to get on or off at different levels. After my wife was told several times that we had come too far - to go back down to where we wanted to go, I asked someone myself and was told that yes, it was just one more level up and on the right. Found it, no problem. Hong Kong seems to be a VERY helpful place as far as strangers offering directions. Looking down from the top
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Yes, the sign really does say what you think it does. In Mandarin, that's 口利幅 Kou Li Fu, or "Good Fortune for the Mouth". But in Hong Kong, they speak Cantonese - for them (and us English-speakers), it really DOES say Ho Lee Fook. It is branded as Chinese, Japanese, Asian fusion - the main chef is Taiwanese. But "fusion" seems to refer to VERY loud, American music from the 70's and 80's, English-only menus, and a Taiwanese-Canadian chef with dishes which are different from what our friends from the Mainland (in particular, my wife) seem to expect. She wasn't impressed. I was somewhat over-whelmed at having to select Asian/Chinese food from a menu with no pictures, and no Chinese to help HER, but I was very satisfied with my choices. An excellent restaurant, just make sure your Chinese significant-other is "open to the experience" This is the entire first floor of the restaurant - the stairs lead down to the eating area, We were one of the first tables seated - there was a pretty good crowd not long afterward.
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There IS a little bit of history behind Shenzhen. One of our day trips (about 55 km by subway and bus) while we were there was to see a piece of it. We went to the Dapeng Fortress, an ancient fortified village along the coast. It was originally established in 1394 (during the Ming Dynasty) to protect the area from (Japanese) pirates during the Ming dynasty. One of the first battles of the Opium Wars was fought in 1839, by maritime forces of the Dapeng Fortress. While it's been largely restored to tourist conditions, it is still well worth a visit and a stroll through the grounds. See Dapeng Fortress, SZ’s only historical site under State protection (Shenzhen Daily archive) The subway ride was typical - and about two hours long. The cellphones are a way to pass the time, and also to avoid eye contact. The smudges you see in the sky are actually dust which is drawn in as the lens extends. For a small, fixed-lens pocket camera, you need to disassemble the camera to clean the dust off the CCD array. That's one reason I bought a new, interchangeable lens camera while in Hong Kong. A nice place to stroll and do a little shopping. This boy told us he didn't know the prices of anything, and no one else was there. Shops in China are sometimes left completely unattended. We came back later. This is an all THEY can eat fish spa. You place your feet in the tanks and they nibble off callouses and rough skin and other things that you probably never would have thought to have nibbled off.
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Opened in 2013, we visited there in 2014 while applying for my new passport. The American Consulate is within a VERY short walking distance in Guangzhou's Zhujiang New City district. It holds approximately 3.5 million books in 100,000 sq. meters. It is located in Guangzhou's largest city square: 花城广场 (Huāchéng Guǎngchǎng) Huangcheng Square, or Flower City Square I took most of these pictures with the camera in panoramic mode to take in the full effect.About the above picture: Huangcheng Square, or Flower City Square, with the Guangzhou Tower in the background (between the flags and the library). The overhang on the left is the library.
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Air conditioners in China are heat pumps, which also serve as heaters during the winter. Our hot water heater even uses an A/C compressor to heat the water. The compressors are outside, connected to the evaporator through tubing and an electrical connection. In our complex, it is in a vertical utility shaft running the length of the building and hidden behind louvers. The A/C in my office was "barely there" - pretty weak and in need of a recharging. This guy is rigging a harness for his co-worker to use as he navigates to the utility shaft, where the compressors are located. It's tied to the window frame, and loosely to our bed. I'm sure if he had fallen, he'd have taken our window with him. The guy in the blue shirt does the outside work All this for ¥100, a little under $15USD. A lot cooler now!
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from the Smithsonianmag This Taiwanese Museum Just Digitized Its Massive Collection of Chinese Art 70,000 images are available for download via the National Palace Museum’s website
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A small Hakka farming village near Yulin, about 2 to 3 hundred years old. Some brick work's been done, clean-up and repair. But by and large it's still piles of rubble.. They have some maintenance workers and 3 or 4 families living there - no ticket takers or guides.
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if this is a Quick Draw McGraw or a Roadrunner scenario Sproing-g-g, or SPLAT !!?! http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0612/c90000-9070888.html Stuck on the way to the glass skywalk
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I didn't originally process many of these because of the fog, but I have some better tools now and finally got back to them . . .
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REPORTING SOCIAL TRENDS IN CHINA Mirror of Time: Chinese Weddings Through the Decades
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I guess I didn't make the short list - no one from SCMP contacted me - but these guys are WAY more entrepreneurial than I am. One runs "a service catering to photography enthusiasts looking for local scenery at its finest", the other two have guest houses. It's somewhat lengthy reading, but interesting stories - about expats in Bama, Jiuxian near Yangshuo, and Xingping, also near Yangshuo The expats living the quiet life in rural southwest China Trading city life for remote villages in the South China Karst region might seem an unlikely choice for expats but, as Thomas Bird discovers, some wouldn't have it any other way We had even stumbled across one of the guest houses at the Secret Garden in Jiuxian, a couple of years ago - but no one was there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0VK5ThCzOo - unavailable My CFL topic - Near Yangshuo
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from China Pictorial Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChinaPic/posts/1025348774257178
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The Rare Foreigner Who Could Capture the Essence of Ancient Peking
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Okay so this WASN'T our room in Huangyao. But it was part of the scenery on the way in.. More later. Click on the picture for a larger image edit 8/2016 - I think this is that branch off to the right taken from underneath the tree
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This was streamed live this morning (about 17 mins) by the NY Times on Facebook from Yangshuo There IS a Guilin and Lijiang River National Park of China, but the capitol of Guangxi is no longer Guilin, but Nanning. From Wikipedia, The New York Times was live. 14 hrs · Facebook link to the video - https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/videos/10150834411514999/ .
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How surfing suddenly became cool in Hong Kong, and its ’70s expat roots Long a marginal sport in Hong Kong, surfing has gone mainstream, with girls and young women in particular taking to the boards and bringing civility to a sometimes rowdy scene
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in the Shanghaiist China's best tall buildings The tallest (and newest) building in this picture is the Shanghai Tower. The third tallest (in between the Shanghai Tower and the one with the handle) is the Jin Mao Tower One of the buildings listed was the White Swan Hotel, which was closed for renovation as of last year
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. . . from the SCMP I've never heard it called Chinese Valentine's Day, but, well, okay! Lantern Festival: five things you need to know about the Chinese version of Valentine’s Day 1. It’s more than 2,000 years old Releasing the lanterns, which are red for good luck, symbolises people letting go of their past selves and embracing new identities for the coming year. 2. It’s also known as Chinese Valentine’s Day Traditionally, the festival was one of few days in the year when unmarried women were allowed outside without a chaperone, giving them the chance to socialise with potential suitors. Lighting lanterns is also seen as a sign of a hope for blossoming romances. 3. Hongkongers can celebrate it at several public events - or just enjoy a family meal 4. It marks the end of New Year taboos Among the concepts thought to bring bad luck are a crying child, a hospital visit, ripped clothes, breaking tools or equipment and giving gifts such as scissors and clocks. Lantern Festival signifies the end of these taboos – until next year. 5. It’s even got its own Google Doodle although this doesn't look like the same one https://www.google.com.hk/
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. . . from the People's Daily
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Some good photo work from the SCMP Bridges into history, October 17 The Guangji Bridge across the Hanjiang River in Chaozhou Town, Guangdong province. It was built between 1170 and 1227. The east and west ends of the bridge are made up of boats which can be moved to let ships pass.
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from the Shanghaiist Check out these gorgeous Chinese structures nominated for 'Building of the Year'
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In Guangzhou. Just one of the turntables on top of the cabinet in front there would have busted my audio budget more than 10 times over
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. . . from Global Times Facebook https://www.facebook.com/globaltimesnews/photos/a.123349831079259/890074381073463
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Wall Street Journal's China RealTime Watch: Dazzling Poor Man’s Fireworks in a Chinese Steel City
