Day one in the markets

Lee and I started the day making a loop around campus and our street. We had a breakfast of spicy beef and noodles with a 24 oz beer. It was very good, in a tiny shop off the street with a sleepy old man cashiering. The whole breakfast cost us like 3 US dollars for both of us.

We then met our SYSU medical friends who have been showing us around: Kristina Lee and Jue Wang. We boarded the metro stop at Martyrs Park and took it two stops east to the Tee Mall, which was the biggest in Guangzhou. It puts Circle Centre thouroughly to shame. It is a very nice mall from an infrastructure point of view. If I had to guess I'd say its 2-3 times the size of circle center. The contrasts were stark: some shops had expensive imports that wealthy Americans can't afford, others had very cheap wares.

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