Shanghai again... the only city in China that I miss. Your photos are making me nostalgic.
In all my time in Shanghai I only made it to Old Town once, and I spent most of the day at Yuyuan. It's really as close to "traditional China" as you get in Shanghai. I always laugh though, at the photos of these long lined buildings with pagoda roofs on everything and a skyscraper or two in the background, because I think a part of me was expecting every city block in China to look like that back when I first arrived. Then reality kicks in and we all start asking ourselves "what was I thinking, coming here?"
Gotta love your Chinglish photos though. I wish I had the album I collected during my time in Beijing. Restaurant menus are the best. I saw a menu once in a restaurant at Changying Mall where there was a dish whose Chinese name translated as "spicy twin-river fish." The English translation they put on the page was "two rivers and a spicy fish."
In unrelated news, how do you get this twin-column format in an article?
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I always wondered why they didn't use traditional styles more often in modern buildings. But I didn't expect much more than socialist megalomania from official buildings.
Lots of Chinglish to come in the future, though not as much as could be. I somehow got used to it & didn't take as many pictures as I could have.
For tables, it depends on the frontend you use. In ecency (former esteem) you have a simple button to add a table. But I use markdown: https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/
Tables are pretty far down the page.
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I'm German. Don't think I ever used Russian here.
I know, but I don't speak German and frankly, I needed an excuse to test my Cyrillic keyboard and your comment just happened to be what I was responding to when I plugged it in for the first time.