Hair salon… or not ?

Shanghainese staples that you’ll see everywhere streetside once you get out of the tourist zones though in my opinion, nothing beats mee pok tah. Any day.

I’ve always wondered about the people behind these chalk-written propaganda messages. Is it those old folks with red armbands sitting on their little stools in the morning sun or chain-smoking men strolling about the neighborhood at dusk ?

More commonly known as the apartment block where famed Chinese writer Eileen Chang lived for a number of years.