Shanghai is quite a bit more expensive than Xiamen. The taxi meter here starts at 11 RMB versus 7 RMB in Xiamen. Food too. Five Valencia (Sunkist) Oranges cost 20 RMB, about three bucks. For twenty EMB in Xiamen last year, I could have bought enough fruits and vegetables for a week. There are some things here from the States — not much. Washington State has apples all over the place; there are some cleaning and laundry products; a couple that paste small stickers with Chinese over the regular English labels; Oreos and Lays chips (in a zillion flavors); and Skippy peanut butter seem popular.
Marginal retailers like Mary Kay, Tupperware and Amway have storefronts. KFC is huge; Papa John’s and Pizza Hut are busy and Mickey D’s runs fourth; few Burgher Kings. I’ve seen Hagan Daz and Cold Stone Creamery; a lot of Nike, Adidas and Disney stores, a big GM Headquarters building, but not is as good a spot as the Masaretti and Mercedes dealerships along Nanjing Road.
There are a lot of cars……..most high end — BMWs in particular. Recycling is all over the place; incandescent light bulbs are very rare and every roadway has bike and motorbike lanes with bicycles outnumbering the motorbikes by about five to one.
Traffic is more civilized here; it’s not blow-and-go, first one wins as much as in Xiamen. Fewer trucks……….many more cars.
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- Bike lanes are everywhere.
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- Paper Recycler
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- Recycling Center
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- Styrofoam recycler – balance, balance, balance
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