cHiNa, cHiNa, AnD MoRe cHiNa!!!
China is an asian country like ours. but when you experience their culture first-hand, you’d definitely feel many interesting fresh perspectives about how different china is from philippines and you’d realize how Western we arein ways, tastes , and lifestyle. CHINA IS ASIA. let me tell you some observations i had for the past two weeks here.
- they sell whole sugarcane plants(minus the leaves) in the fruit stand.
- a lot of people wear stockings (quite thick ones).
- to use the handkerchief is considered dirty. so the tissue industry is boom.
- you wearing slippers and flip-flops would make them think you are SOOOOO poor that you cant afford to buy shoes.
- this is BOOTS country. it is glam to wear boots here.a wide array of luscious boots are in every corner of the city. i bought one for 50 yuan.
- you can find really good bargains here.i purchased really quality sneakers for only 10 yuan (P70 baby)
- upon knowing you are a FOREIGNER,they would stare at you unabashedly and talk and point at you. (dumb)
- if you’ve heard of cable cars,we got cable buses here. cable buses run on electricity so it emits no smoke nor sound.
- cable TV’s got no English channels, not even DISNEY which is based in Hongkong!
- you can find international products like those of del monte, dole, mc cormick,budweiser, heineken. (so that makes me relieved )
- i saw some really fat,lazy, ripe-for-eating bullfrogs swimming in large tanks in the supermarket. snakes, frogs, animal tongues,pig brains are offered in restaurants.
- bananas are expensive,grapes are not. (yumyum!!!)
- string beans are sold here! so as coconut,ube-flavored shake, mango and some stuff truly filipino! but its RARE to find it.
- people spit anywhere.yes, ANYWHERE. thats the most disgusting aspect of their culture.
- and…. what else…(jv thinks) hmmm…oh yeah , babies nad tots wear pants with slits in the backs in order for them to poo anywhere! ugghhh…i saw one boy running towards his granny and i can see his white bare ass! what a sight!
