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i'm eating too much ice cream. it's nearly criminal how much ice cream i consume in china. the thing is, it's just that cheap. imagine this for a moment: a large ice cream bar smothered in a hardened chocolate shell; but that's not all, inside the ice cream is a hardened centre of MORE chocolate, and surrounding this chocolate is either a) cookie crumb; b) red bean; c) caramel. now here's the final closer - as if there really has to be one with an ice cream bar that tastes this good...the price checks in at about 1.5 to 2rmb a piece...folks, 7rmb is the equivalent to 1 canadian dollar...this is 1.5 to 2rmb!!!!!!!! needless to say, i'm getting fat.
more food: imagine a bowl of congee wong congee...now fill that bowl up with pan-fried shanghai noodles with ample veggies and meat. that's a big bowl of phucking noodles. now, what if i told you the price of this bowl was a shade under a canadian dollar at 6rmb...would u believe me? how will i ever eat in canada ever again? 4.99 for pan fried dumplings at peng lai chun? and u only get 6?! well, how about for 5rmb u get TEN pan fried dumplings that're double the size of the ones at mainlander? cot damn.
bring the noise: one of the more odd things i've seen in shanghai - or china for that matter - is a decibel counter on the main street...when the counter gets over 70, it turns red, presumably signifying to people to shut the hell up and the motorists to stop honking...everything under 70 brings hot burning red back to green.
massage: going back to prices - i got a 90 minute massage today for what amounted to 60 rmb...that's a shade under 9 canadian dollars...it was a good non-sexual-turned a little bit sexual-but still wasn't sexual massage. i got my IT Band worked on good...sweeeeet.
brothel barbershop - i'm convinced that the barbershop 10 metres from our hotel is a brothel. what barbershop still has girls sitting around in the barber chairs reading magazines at 1 in the morning? the girls sitting around appear to be waiting, but for what? now i know they could be waiting for clients who need emergency haircuts late late late night...but...c'mon. i'm gonna walk in at midnight tonight and ask to get my head shaved, let's see if i get my penis yanked instead.
MAGMA! SPACE SWIIIIIRL! FOSSIL VARIANTS! STARS! all parts of my underground tunnel "sightseeing" tour. the chinese can do anything...whatever the hell a fossil variant is...
more food: imagine a bowl of congee wong congee...now fill that bowl up with pan-fried shanghai noodles with ample veggies and meat. that's a big bowl of phucking noodles. now, what if i told you the price of this bowl was a shade under a canadian dollar at 6rmb...would u believe me? how will i ever eat in canada ever again? 4.99 for pan fried dumplings at peng lai chun? and u only get 6?! well, how about for 5rmb u get TEN pan fried dumplings that're double the size of the ones at mainlander? cot damn.
bring the noise: one of the more odd things i've seen in shanghai - or china for that matter - is a decibel counter on the main street...when the counter gets over 70, it turns red, presumably signifying to people to shut the hell up and the motorists to stop honking...everything under 70 brings hot burning red back to green.
massage: going back to prices - i got a 90 minute massage today for what amounted to 60 rmb...that's a shade under 9 canadian dollars...it was a good non-sexual-turned a little bit sexual-but still wasn't sexual massage. i got my IT Band worked on good...sweeeeet.
brothel barbershop - i'm convinced that the barbershop 10 metres from our hotel is a brothel. what barbershop still has girls sitting around in the barber chairs reading magazines at 1 in the morning? the girls sitting around appear to be waiting, but for what? now i know they could be waiting for clients who need emergency haircuts late late late night...but...c'mon. i'm gonna walk in at midnight tonight and ask to get my head shaved, let's see if i get my penis yanked instead.
MAGMA! SPACE SWIIIIIRL! FOSSIL VARIANTS! STARS! all parts of my underground tunnel "sightseeing" tour. the chinese can do anything...whatever the hell a fossil variant is...