Zhu Jia Jiao has a river that runs through the whole town. So people live by the water in every sense of the word. Now it's also become such a tourist attraction that the streets are lined with little restaurants that sells snacks along the streets as well as having tables and seated eating areas; and little knickknack shops. These seem to be providing the livelyhood of the town. Judging by the number of people that were there on a winter Saturday, the town's doing alright! There were lots of bridges and stone structures as well. Very pretty.
Qi Bao Old Town, on the other hand, is all about food! There were snackshops of all kinds going from one end of the town to the other, selling everything from "stinky tofu" to "Zhong Zi" to "five-flavored beans" (a Shanghai specialty that I can't stand). There were sooooo many people there that the old saying of "adults see heads and children see butts" apply very well here. Mom bought a bunch of little things here, so we expect to have a little feast tonight. Woot!
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Howe nice that some off old shangai still existing. :-)
It is, in a way. But it's disconcerting to think that's how people used to live, well and still live apparently. Can you imagine no indoor plumbing, or at least no flushable toilets???
does the river still stink?
Well the one I think you mean I haven't been to to know. This is another stretch of the river. It looks green, and I didn't smell anything.
I heard that for the really polluted rivers/lakes, what they do here is to just empty out the entire thing, or a good stretch of it for a river, and dig out a big chunk of the beds lining the waterbody. And start fresh. Fast and effective way of doing it, but probably very expensive. Luckily labor's dirt cheap here. It is, for the most part, much cleaner than when we grew up, Liz.
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