Day 8 & 9 – Haircut, Luxury Brands
Haircuts here are pretty awesome, because for 10 RMB ($2.50), they’ll wash your hair, cut your hair, then wash it again.
And they actually use scissors here, not like those Chinese hairdessers in Chinatown who just use the electric razors and finish the job in 5 minutes.
The only problem is that they prefer completely different hairstyles (That long, sometimes mullet-esque style). Plus, they of course do not know what a lineup is. Left the place with crooked sideburns.
One haircut used, 10 more remaining. (Membership card was 100 RMB)
Took a look around inside The Peninsula, which had all of the flagship designer brand stores also in the building.
(Parked in front, two BMW 7 series, in the background, two Rolls-Royce Phantoms)
Good ol louie
I’m a fan of the Museum
Ate at Japanese fast-food restaurant called Yoshinaya. Was amazing. I don’t think you can find anything like it in Toronto.
Fast food (Ex. Mcdonalds, KFC,) is actually more expensive than local Chinese restaurants; I guess because they’re international companies. So it’s actually sort of a treat for Chinese people to go to these places.
Well fed.
Lastly, dropped by the campus cyber cafe to play a game or two of Dota. The cyber cafes are about the same as the ones in Toronto, except that they are usually a lot bigger (about 100 computers split between two rooms). BUT TO MAKE IT EVEN WORSE, YOU ARE ALLOWED TO SMOKE INSIDE. Cyber cafes are already known to be hot and sweaty (some guys take off their shirts while playing), but the cigarette smoke makes it even worse.
And one last thing I forgot to mention about restaurants; they all do delivery. And it’s also free! (Tipping is not part of the culture here anyways)
But while in the cyber cafe I saw about the craziest thing: a dude got Mcdonalds delivered to him, inside the cyber cafe, and he didn’t even have to leave his seat. (Photo below)
So literally you can sit in a cyber cafe all day without even having to get out of your seat to get food.
This is what they do delivery on. Awesome ain’t it?
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is there anywhere that’s smoke free? that Japanese meal looked good and filling.
Comment by dianayee — October 30, 2011 @ 5:10 PM
yeah i think there was a point when we were living off take out for a month straight. at least like once a week go buy a huge thing of choi, boil it down and just keep it on your fridge and eat it. you need green vegetable intake, that or eat a crapload of fruit. i lost 15 pounds since you left, im on this no sugar no fat, eat 7 meals a day to keep your stomach smaller diet thing.
Comment by Eric — November 1, 2011 @ 9:00 AM