Headed into China Monday by train from the Hong Hom station in TST direct to Guangzhou. Nice easy ride. Met a new vendor of kids crafts. I hate kids crafts but these guys have their act together and made me embarrassed about the company I work for as they were much more together than we are!
That night their driver hauled us an hour and a half to our hotel in Dongguan so we could meet our next vendor. Wow it is dismal out and about in China-- same as usual. Grey brown skies and everything so dirty. Sad.
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Dongguan attempts to beautify w fountains and landscaping but the
pollution cannot be overcome |
That night we wanted to shop but it was too dangerous in our area to go out in the dark.
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Man in the street carrying stuff
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Our great supplier in Dongguan took us to an "Italian" restaurant in Dongguan for a treat-- I thought oh lord this is going to be a nightmare as I've been to Italian in Taipei and it was really disgusting. However it turns out it was a trueblood italian guy who opened this restaurant and lots of westerners and euros go there and it was really great. They even had a delicious Malbec. Shock.
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Antipasta at Italian joint in Dongguan |
Finally got to go shopping and get my ratchet nails fixed at the mall-- the little girls spoke about 5 words of english and I knew 5 of Mandarin. We used the translation app on their phones to communicate. So funny. Some of their questions that came up were "Do you want to take the whole hand off?" and "Do you want color or the green plastic?" How do I answer that? But in the end I got a fabulous manicure.
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| Nails Dongguan style |
Next morning flew to Yiwu. More on that later.
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