I was fortunate enough to go on a week-long trip to China with my employer for the development of Halloween costumes for 2012. Here are some of the pictures I took on the adventure ::
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- A view of Guangzhou looking out from our hotel room
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- guangzhou market
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- Lace store in Guangzhou fabric market
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- One of the cleaner buildings in the GZ fabric market :: halls and halls of fabric store cubicles
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- On the 2nd story of a GZ fabric market
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- Looking down over a very busy intersection in the center of the market
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- There are plenty of trees, most freeways are outlined in beautiful trees and flower beds. Also the buses have mandibles :]
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- Chinese people - Y U No graffiti on anything?
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- Decrepit building next door to one of the smaller factories we work with
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- Decrepit street by small factory
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- Interesting building shape :: this picture seems to be out of sequence...
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- Finishing room in the smaller factory in Guangzhou
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- There's a pulley set up in order to move large rolls of fabric up several floors in the building
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- Factory workers loading the rolls onto the pulley
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- cluttered pattern room in small factory
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- This is how they store the bulk fabrics, some cut pieces bundled here too. Clearly this is the best environment for white fabric.
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- Mega sewing room
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- Most buildings in Guangzhou had gardens on the roofs. This one is across from the factory in the country.
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- Saw these beetles outside of a restaurant in Guangzhou: asked for one...
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- ...received a mountain of cooked beetles. Most of the table helped to eat them. These were too much work for such small amounts of food. I should try mealworms next.
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- restaurants always have their fish out on display
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- A nicer factory in Guangzhou. More organized. Part daycare.
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- Nicer factory in Guangzhou :: cutting table
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- View from the window of a super nice office building of one of the factories we work with
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- The new tallest buildng in the world. See how it's shape is twisted - at night it lights up and there are blue and purple stripes that spiral up and down like a barbershop pole
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- A ridiculous window display in Guangzhou
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- Badass display at a linen store in Guangzhou :: I love that headboard!
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- Another display at the linen store
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- Cutting Ninja dominating over 9000 plies of fabric!
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- Super nice factory in Yiwu, see how the workers have trendy hair and more interesting clothes, some even wear high heels to work
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- sewing strands of fake hair for wigs
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- Rad horse sculpture in our hotel in Yiwu
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- A decorative fish head at a restaurant in Yiwu
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- I saw this gas mask above the closet in the Yiwu hotel, thought I'd see what other goodies were inside the closet...
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- ...and jackpot! A basket full of lingerie and condoms!
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- Here's the view from the hotel in Yiwu :: not many tall buildings like Guangzhou
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- Another view from the hotel :: the mountains there are beautiful
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- We went to this restaurant in Yiwu that was a huge jungle inside, and all of the staff were on roller blades! Even the servers zipped through with huge trays of food
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- Parking at the Keqiao fabric market :: Car is blocked? no problem, the parking attendant just rolls the double-parked cars out of the way
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- There are buildings going up all over China, you can't go anywhere without seeing developments
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- Keqiao fabric market :: not an amazing selection considering how expansive it is!
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- Chinese window-washing daredevilry! Notice the lack of safety harnesses
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- This guy is cutting thick fur using a heated piece of metal, which melts the ends and reduces fuzz
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- Futian market :: land of toys and accessories
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- A wall of socks :: the orane one looks like a monkey licking his butt o.0
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- Ordered a cappuchino at lunch :: coffee in China is serious business
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- Didn't order this, but still very curious what it means
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- One of the few (wild) insects I saw in China, there weren't many birds there either
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- Futian market
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- so many toys
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- huge model of the Futian market
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- huge screen at the main entrance of the market
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- Futian market entrance looking up and out
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- Shirt dispensers in the market, just in case
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- Back at the hotel in Yiwu, here's the stairway in the lobby
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- Yiwu hotel :: waterfall painting in lobby
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- Yiwu hotel entrance
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- Yiwu hotel :: decorations in hallway
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- This was taken on the fast train from Yiwu to Jiaxing :: see all of the buildings in the background
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- view of the country while riding the fast train
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- we got up to 200km/hr or about 124mph on the fast train
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- some cute houses on the way to Jiaxing
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- odd Willy Wonka house
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- Cool building in Hangzhou
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- Beautiful lake in Hangzhou (we only had time to drive by it)
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- Back in Guangzhou, another view of the biggest intersection I've ever seen
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- A view of the parking lot landscaping at the Guangzhou hotel
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- Close up of the development across the street from the hotel in Guangzhou
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- Awesome coffee cart
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- some restaurants in China are like zoos, there are so many creatures on display
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- yummy fishes
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- A huge crab imported from Japan, this guy is over $500 USD!
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- Here's that crab with my boot for size comparison
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- Went into the country in Guangdong to meet with a printer and they took us to this beautiful restaurant
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- Business parties usually eat in private rooms
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- another view of the plants outside of the restaurant
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- look at the spout on the hot water pots! these guys would come in and refill out tea every few minutes
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- this was the most delicious tea! Our hosts were kind enough to ask the restaurant for a few baggies of the tea to give to us!
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- On our last day in Guangzhou we finally went shopping, this is a random Darth Vader / Adidas shirt I saw
