Category: Seen on the Street

Gold Fish On The Tricycle In China

Gold Fish On The Tricycle In China

A tricycle carrying fish pods filled with gold fish, seen in Nanjing in 2011. The golden creatures were sold for a few yuan each, depending on the fish’s size and relative rarity. Buyers carry their new pet home in a small plastic bag. They could also buy fish food.

Selling gold fish, and other small animals, off tricycles was very common in China until 2018 or so. Today these paddle pet shops are a rarity in the big cities but they are still common down country. The seller in Nanjing was on a popular spot doing good business, I remember seeing lots of kids buying, and some of his tanks were already empty when I took the picture.

Beer! No. 2

Yanjing beer China

More beer! A Beijing-branded tricycle carrying empty bottles of Yanjing beer, standing in front of a neighborhood beer distribution point.  The blue crates behind the trike are filled with new bottles of delicious Yanjing beer. The green crates are for Tsingtao beer but they too are filled with Yanjing bottles.

I saw this tricycle in the hutongs of central Beijing when Yanjing beer bottles still contained 0.645 liter of easy drinkable beer with an alcohol percentage of 3.6%. In my good old days I drunk a truck of the stuff each week. Sadly, most Chinese beer makers have since changed their bottle size to the internationally more acceptable 0.5 liter.

Back then many people in China still preferred to drink their beer at room-temperature instead of cooled. So at distribution points beer was mostly kept uncooled and out in the open. Cheers!

Time for Tanks! A T-34 Tank & T-34 Recovery Vehicle

Time for Tanks! A T-34 Tank & T-34 Recovery Vehicle

Saturday night is always a good time for tanks. Back in 2011 I went to the Marco Polo Bridge and the adjacent museum in the faraway suburbs of Beijing. The museum had lots of cool stuff including a T-34 tank and a T-34 recovery vehicle.

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A White Hafei Minivan In Beijing

This is a personally historical photo because it was the first photo I took with my brand new China-made Nokia telephone, which I got in the great year of 2003. Photo quality was still far worse compared to a real camera, which I  always carried with me until 2012, when I deemed the iPhone good enough for street pics.

The picture shows a typical street not far from my home in the Dongzhimen area, with 1970’s 6-floor apartment buildings on the left side. It must have been winter, the trees are leafless and the air looks cold. A woman in a brown jacket tried to ruin my picture but failed.

The Hafei minivan is still clearly visible. It is a standard-roof passenger variant. The blue 京A license plate indicate this is a very early privately owned car. Blue A’s are very rare nowadays but back in 2003 I had no idea about that. May I be able to look into the future in my next Hafei life.

Selling C-Cup In The Taxi In China

A foreign model with huge tits recommends a C-cup breast augmentation in a taxi in Beijing in 2009, I think it was in a Citroen ZX. The advertisement was on a magazine holder on the back of the driver’s seat. I guess they thought this was a smart advertising strategy as many girls take taxis, without and with their boyfriends.

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Hyundai Tucson Urges To Apologize In China

Hyundai Tucson
Hyundai Tucson

A black Hyundai Tucson, seen on a highway south of Beijing in April 2006. The Hyundai has a very interesting sticker on the back, saying, in English and Japanese: “Japan apalogize to NanKing!” with the date 1937.12.13. Continue reading “Hyundai Tucson Urges To Apologize In China”

Beijing-Hyundai Sonata Police Car In Beijing

Hyundai Sonata Police Car

A very pretty Hyundai Sonata police car in Beijing, painted in blue-white with a large lights & siren unit on the roof. I saw it in 2005 near Tiananmen Square, parked in a narrow street.

The fourth-generation (EF) Hyundai Sonata was the first generation Sonata that was made in China, by the Beijing-Hyundai joint venture. Production started in 2002 and continued all the way, with various updates, until 2017!

The police car has the 2.5 liter V6 under the bonnet, which was good for 164 hp and 225 Nm. Gearbox was a 4-speed automatic. The China-made Sonata was also available with various other engines, including a 2.0 and a 3.0 V6.