Time for a mid-point roundup of the photos I took in Shenzhen.. There are still plenty left..
Snail
There were enormous snails crawling around the city. Bigger than the palm of my hand.. you could honestly call them monsters.. I saw a lot of them on rainy days in particular.
Melon
It looked a bit unusual so I took a photo.. but this is hard to eat on your own, so it’s a shame I never got to try it.
Durian potato chips
These were fairly ordinary.
Five-spice beef jerky
Nice as a simple snack with drinks.
Xiaomi’s electric car
Maybe because it looks like a Porsche, or for whatever reason.. apparently it’s selling like crazy.. I hear you have to wait several months to get one.. I found it interesting, so I took a photo..
Night-time exercise
It wasn’t just tai chi; people were doing all sorts of exercises.. If anything, the tai chi people seemed to be the minority..
Inside the park
Nicely done.
Pizza place
The elephant was cute, so I took a photo.
Back alley
It looks run-down, but back in the 80s this must have been the busiest part of town..
Neighbourhood grocery
You see places like this all the time.
Neighbourhood
Snapped this while walking down the street.
Bananas
This variety, labelled something like “rice banana?”, only seems to show up in this season, and it tastes great. There’s a real variety of fruit here.
Neighbourhood scenery
This turned out to be the area where the IT companies are clustered.
Fenjiu 48 proof
Fenjiu is a popular liquor in China; a bottle costs a little over 10,000 won, so the price is reasonable, and being a light-aroma (qingxiang) baijiu it goes down clean. Any serious drinker will probably feel the same way: all the fancy premium liquors do taste good, but as you get older you start to wonder whether you really need to go that far every single time.. and Fenjiu is the one such drinkers can enjoy cleanly without any fuss. It’s the standard of Chinese baijiu, so other distilleries release liquors at a similar level, but hardly any of them do it as well as Fenjiu.. In other words, there are plenty of liquors that are pricier and tastier than Fenjiu, but in this price range it has very few rivals..
Having tried both, the 53 proof was tastier than the 48.. In my mind, Fenjiu is the number one baijiu that a wuxia novel hero would drink.. Korean duty-free shops do sell premium Fenjiu.. but honestly, when Wuliangye costs less than 100 dollars, I wonder whether there’s any point in buying anything else..
Neighbourhood grocery
This is how they sell tea. Perhaps because the tea culture is so developed, they seem to sell it in bulk..
Side dishes
They sell it like this too..
Sunflower seeds, plums, apricots
They sold all kinds of dried fruit.. You can find similar things in Daerim too.
Doughnuts
It’s fried bread, so I suppose I should call it a doughnut? Freshly fried in the morning and eaten with soy milk, nothing beats it. And it only costs a few yuan.. But eat it at lunchtime and it just isn’t good..
Coastal scenery
You can see Hong Kong from Shenzhen. The sea connects right over to that side.
Beer
I bought it because it was supposedly a famous local beer; it tastes fine, but I’m not sure it’s all that great. Anyway, it seems beer culture is spreading in China too.
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