Swimming With Sharks

Oh, and for those of you who have been asking for more pictures and stuff, I was going to take my MiniDV camera down to The Place and shoot some video.  The it dawned on me, I bet someone’s put it on YouTube.  Sure enough, there’s a ton of video already online.  Here’s one shot by some foreign tourist.  (I’m trying to guess the language, perhaps Portuguese?)

Click on the link and you can see other videos shot by other people.  Suffice it to say that video of the giant screen there, with the swimming sharks, does not to it justice.  You have to stand underneath this thing looking up to really appreciate it.

Oh, the doorway that you see right at the beginning of the video is the doorway you walk in to get to the restaurant area.  You go in there, then down the escalator, and turn left.  Just in case, you know, you find yourself in Beijing and want to eat at Ganges.

That’s fucking awesome.  I love your writings about your experiences in China. 

Also, please don’t buy any mogwai and send them home as Christmas presents.  That’s just asking for trouble.

That is pretty bad ass. Its not every day you can say you went shopping in a mall with sharks swimming over your head.

Also, please don’t buy any mogwai and send them home as Christmas presents.  That’s just asking for trouble.

It’s funny you should say that.  The way to say “America” in Chinese is “may-gwo” (phonetically).  That’s how I remember it, Mogwai.  To say “American” you say “may-gwo-ren,” with “ren” being the Chinese word for human or person.  So when you say “may-gwo-ren” you’re literally saying “America human.”