Chinarchy » shopping http://www.chinarchy.com A travel and general interest blog written by two guys living in China Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:49:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Jade Factory and Badaling http://www.chinarchy.com/2010/08/jade-factory-and-badaling/ http://www.chinarchy.com/2010/08/jade-factory-and-badaling/#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:19:11 +0000 Anderson http://www.chinarchy.com/?p=761
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    • ]]>     This past weekend I visited a jade factory and the Badaling section of the Great Wall. Badaling is the most popular, tourist-visited section and as you can see in the pictures below it is packed with people.

    The jade factory was interesting, but it was mostly focused on selling you jade jewelry. We saw about 10% factory and 90% shopping area. Still, a lot of the stuff was pretty cool. A couple of us managed to get some raw jade from one of the workers, so we got a nice souvenir without having to buy some of the overpriced jewelry.

    Check out the photos below.

    Jade Worker Jade Stones Lucky Jade Sphere Girls Trying On Jade Bracelets Standard Dude Behavior Jade Statue Jade Jewelry Area Huge Jade Ship Jade Ship (side) Badaling Crowd Badaling Great Wall 1 Badaling Great Wall 2 Badaling Great Wall 3 Badaling Great Wall 4 Badaling Great Wall 5 Badaling Great Wall 7 Badaling Great Wall 6

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    • ]]>     Today me and two friends went shopping at a Chinese furniture market. A “market” is a huge building with all kinds of different vendors. It’s kind of like an indoor flea market.
    chinese furniture market
    If you want to know why there is a plane parked in the front of the market, I’m sorry, but I can’t answer that. Like most things in China, the why seems more or less irrelevant. There’s a plane in front of the furniture market. Period. You don’t need a back-story.

    Inside the furniture market looks like this:
    bathroom stuff
    Room after room just packed to the walls with whatever you might need. They even have the kitchen sink (har har okay I’ll stop).

    If you’re interested in a shower that can also travel through time, you’ve come to the right place.
    time machine shower
    If you’re not so into the luxury of using space technology to shower, don’t worry, they have alternatives.
    wooden bath tub
    Who is using these things? My theory is that someone used the time travel shower to bring these things back from around 400 A.D. But what do I know? I’m just a guy who takes pictures of bathtubs.

    This isn’t really related to furniture but one of the vendors had it on her desk for good luck. It’s pretty ridiculous.
    golden frog
    It’s a golden frog surrounded by a bunch of coins. I’m assuming all of this nonsense is used to increase luck. With a high enough luck rating the vendor will receive +3 to their Ripping Off Foreigners skill.

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