| Hi: I just returned from China after a thirty day stay. The last few days of my trip were spent in Shanghai, I loved it! I sincerely appreciated a robust selection of english speaking channels on cable television at my hotel. I had spent quite a bit of time in Xiangtan, CN and the only english speaking channel was the BBC. Hmmmm, improvements to increase tourism. Perhaps menus in both chinese and english. I went to mostly authentic little restaurants and most of the owners were not english speaking, and for the most part their clientele was not english. So convincing them to spend money on menus might be a hard sell (I'm lucky, my girlfriend is chinese). Like others, I would appreciate maps in english. Even though I didn't know where I was going all the chinese people we asked for directions were extremely accomodating. One thing I really did find annoying was the street vendors. I didn't know there were so many Rolex's in Shanghai! After the 100th person asked us if we had any interest in a Rolex our tact was to offer them a used umbrella (it was raining). Most of the responses were either laughter or the hawkers walking away perplexed. All this banter about prostitutes and "Shanghai Girls" are from men who spend all of their time in the bathroom. They wouldn't know what do do with either one of the women they are talking about. Cowards that have the anonymity of the WWW. Shanghai I love it! |
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