Bi Rain spotted on a cookie box in Shanghai, alert the press.

[cerealjoe]

Oh my effing god they changed the layout of the top bar again. I just spent twenty seconds figuring out where the "manage galleries" from the now non-existant "scrapbook" tab is. Gah. Why? Why put everything together? I liked the "scarpbook" tab. Someone who actually reads LJ release notes tell me how to get the old tab layout back! Or maybe I should actually read up on that... In other news, you know what, I used to care about Saint Patrick's Day but the older I get the less I see the point in it. Why does everyone feel the need to celebrate it? I get that in Boston there are many people who come from Irish families but come on, I bet not even 10% of people going head over heels over St. Paddy Day have ever even spoken to someone who has a quarter of Irish blood. Still, I make a mean soda bread. I don't go as far as putting green coloring in it. Actually the older I get, the less I care about all those "holidays". Do I get a day off? I do? Brilliant, wonderful holiday. I don't? Does it afffect my family somehow (Mother's Day, Father's Day, etc.)? It does? Well, I'll be sending a card and calling home. It doesn't? Alright, then who cares? Alrighty, how about another story from Shanghai. On one of the days we drove all the way to Suzhou where they have these fields filled with factories, for miles on end. It's factory after factory after factory. Mind you, obviously they're not the "horror story" factories you can hear about. Now imagine this as far as your eye can see on either side! Still, that's not the highlight of that day. We had half an hour to waste so we had a very educational field trip to a local supermarket! Now that was fun. Being the weird people we are, some of us actually walked around the aisles and stopped at the toothpaste aisle because there you have some toothpaste for 1.8 yuan but then also some for about 20 yuan! That's a 10 time difference! Just on toothpaste! You'll never see that kind of thing at your local K-supermarket! Yes, maybe we need some help... maybe. Photo of said supermarket entrance. I also found some Rain cookies. If you have no idea who Rain is, he is (was?) a huge Korean star, singer, actor, designer, in all of Asia. I love these kinds of fake products... or at least I hope he didn't actually agree to have his face on those cookies because they were terrible! The cream wasn't good and the genoise was too thin and bunched up. And oh my god, I am actually discussing the qualities of a cookie. That box cost like 2.6 yuan which is about 30 euro cents. Maybe that's why they tasted bad.

In case you wanted to visit some Versace factories, there are some in Suzhou also.

I also quite liked the huge choice of bottled teas. Here also you had a very wide price range. From around 2.5 yuan to over 20.

Comments

[rengeek.livejournal.com]

I'm not much of a fan of St. Patrick's Day in that its main celebration seems to be mass alcoholic consumption.
Personally, I'll be celebrating it by sampling some cultural cuisine (bangers n mashed!) and maybe having a bit to drink, but I'd like to see more of the day made like a celebration of Irish cultural figures and such.

[cerealjoe.livejournal.com]

Oh, bangers sound so lovely these days. I'm craving more and more things like that... for some odd reason.

Yep, I don't really enjoy the mass alcoholic consumption either. I think engineering school has taught almost everything there is to know about alcohol and now it just seems stupid to get waste for the smallest reason.