Shanghai 101 - Week 2

And, our learning of Shanghai continues...

1.  Smoking...it occurs everywhere, by everyone.  We were in a great little Belgian Beer place, having an enjoyable time, when some bozo's sitting at a nearby table lit-up and kept on smoking...sad for the Belgian Beer place, we left - and we could have sampled a few more beers.  We may have spied a little fellow who was not yet out of diapers carrying a pack of smokes for his old lady (again, I was too slow on the camera).

Great little SMOKEY Belgian beer place.

mmmm, beer.

2.  People run into you - a lot.  AND, that also means that you walk into people...they don't move.

3.  You can get food delivered of every variety - there is a service with over 200 restaurants that they deliver for.  It is awesome.

4.  Speaking of delivery, it seems everything can be delivered - groceries, dry-cleaning, vegetables, dinner, etc.  And delivered cheap.

5.  Older Chinese people have an innate understanding of their surroundings - they cross the street without looking, flinching, or hurrying-up...and amazingly, we haven't seen one get hit.

6.  Car seats are virtually non-existent (from what we have seen).  Often children will ride on a scooter, standing in between the driver and the handle bars.  They also ride on the back of them.  No one wears helmets.

7.  Young kids get the rosiest of cheeks.  It seems like they have old-school circular rouge on their cheeks.  It is very cute.

8.  You have to plan a lot...many of the map websites don't work - or they don't work well.  So there is a lot of conferring with a real map and two or three websites.  Forget about it if we don't have a paper map.