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Re: Shanghai questions

Author: Simon Aldrich
Date: 2011-09-24 10:57

pzh97 - Thanks for the recommendation of East Jinling Rd. I went there today. Unfortunately there were no cheap plastic bass clarinets. There were a lot of cheap clarinets however. My favourite was the Selm clarinet, written with the same letter style as Selmer. They even had "Selm USA" and "Selm Paris".
I went with a guitarist who pointed out all the fake Gibsons, Martins and Epiphones. The problem with all the fake stuff is that you never know what is real and what is fake. Are the Apple computers in the Apple store real (after that *whole* Apple store in Kunming was found to be fake)? Are the watches in the Rolex and Cartier stores real or as fake as the ones five feet outside the store on the street?
One thing that is not fake are the spicy dumplings. Every dumpling stand had a lineup at least 20 feet long. One dumpling restaurant that came highly recommended by the Chinese had a lineup at least 200 people long! The only stall that had a lineup of fewer than 20 people was one that sold roast sparrows. Take my word for it - sparrows do not have a lot of meat on them. But they are easier to get down than the guinea pig I had in Peru, which was similar to biting into the flesh of your arm.
But I digress. Back to the cheap instruments, the violist in my ensemble might get a cheap ($100) violin for when he has to double on violin in contemporary music.

For those coming to Shanghai for Music China in October, I recommend highly the Lonely Planet Shanghai City Guide. I do not recommend roast sparrow however.

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