God Jul (merry Xmas)!

From Jonas and Bruce Lee in Hong Kong!

City of Lights (in China)

I'm currently visiting Ocean, my friend from Suzhou.

We are in: zhongsang guzhen, guangdong province, china. This is the city of ligths! 70% of all lighting equipment for the whole world comes from here. Every street is lined with shops just showcasing lights from the 7000 factories! In most cases, you can't even buy one lamp! 100 minimum! I've never seen more lamps in my life! My friend is thinking about starting a small factory, he takes short various jobs in the different companies to learn all aspects. I wish him success.

SInce the city is full of light shops, it's almost difficult to find anything else. Each shop has several floors just showing more and more models. A shop costs about 500 000 yuen (70KUSD) a year in rent. Often a shop may "rent out" a wall to one manufacturer and the ceiling to another one.

Since my friend knows the cost of manufacturing he tells me that an "expensive" chandleer  may cost only few hundred yuen in parts, it sells for maybe 2000 to wholesaler and then 6000 in a shop!

Oh, and there are shopping mall empty of people but full of light shops, 7 floors or more! Many shops have 3-4 girls just sitting waiting for customers.

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At last - China!

I'm doing a small trip to China before my visa expires. It's funny being here. People are smiling!

Guangzhou is a big city. There may be some asian games going on, but I'll go away before then. I'm going south to visit my friend from Suzhou.

I've had dumplings + 2 tea eggs + a soy milk for 10yuen (10 SEK!) it was good! (pic)

I've seen the mascots being used for commercial photographing (pic)

A nice street size restaurant, which just makes my heart throb of it's simple beauty! (pic)

Chef cooking seen from the street, restaurant behind. (pic)

Yes, if you go tourist/shopping areas somebody will try to sell you WATCH!

they: "Hello WATCH!"

me : "Goodbye WATCH!"

but, when passing people on the sidewalk many smile, and they say "hello" - "Ni Hao!", little thing but nice.

The rest of the evening I spoke with a music/singing student, over my dictionary, that works too, it's not the WPM (words per minute) that counts, it's the communication and feelings behind it.

good night!

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Time for tea

As of today Hong Kong is getting a bit colder.  In the night it may well be 9C! So i warm up by drinking some traditional gong fu cha (kung fu tea).

Philipino girls and Hong Kong guy

I see "gangs"/bands of philipino girls looking like male rockstars, and guys dressed very colorful wearing their golden shoes, shiney pants/business suits(!) with a small  (man?)bag or large Gucci bag.

Golden Thousand Year Old Egg

This is a strange variant - it is golden! Still have a bit if the amonia smell. But the transparent yellow "white" my hk friend have never seen!

hong kong style...

Hong Kong style western style steak!

62 hkd including soup, bread, drink.

cows are Vegetarian, so it should be fine ;-)