Jinan City Photo

Notice

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I'll be back in Jinan in five days more or less. The blogging will be delayed though.

Welder

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Three Buddhas

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The Airport

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Collage

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I'll be in Southeast Asia for a while. Here's a collage I made on vuvox.com. A fun tool for people who like photography.

Duck for Sale

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Jinan Train Station

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So people won't slip they put hay on the stairs. Not so good for my suitcase wheels though.

Peking Duck

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Get to the restaurant early. Otherwise they'll sell out.

Women's Dormitory, Corridor

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I wish it were more cheerful. To top it off, there's no heat in the building or showers. The young ladies must trek across campus for those.

Time for a Nap

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Spicy Green Beans

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My Christmas Dinner

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Sorry more than two photos today. It makes up for the days when there aren't any.

Christmas Cake

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At the Duck Restaurant

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Ho, ho, ho - there's plenty of Christmas spirit in Jinan

A Choir

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At the Jinan Sofitel

Our Tree

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Australian Cigarette Packs

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Here's a friend's cigarette pack from Australia. They go the extra mile in trying to dissuade smokers by putting gross pictures of the results of smoking. Obviously, it's not enough to dissuade my friend.

New Restaurant

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A new franchise restaurant in the neighborhood. Yes, China's changing. I still prefer the family owned places.

Pig's Feet

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I don't need to ask what these are. I'm not brave enough to try one.

Love

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At the Butcher's

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I'm rather squeamish and don't want to know what these are.

A Big Buddha

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Noodles

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Buddha

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Heat

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Not everyone uses coal, but some still do.

Shopping at RT Mart

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They soon made me stop taking photos inside this grocery store.

FYI - Its owned by a Taiwanese company, which is partly owned by the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek's political party.

Santas Conferring

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"Tis the Season

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Even in Jinan - here's our Christmas tree.

At a Department Store

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Start shopping, the holidays are coming.

At a Mosque

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On My Street

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Dragon

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Enlightenment

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Gray

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On Food St.

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Fresh

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A Temple

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Heat

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Contemplation

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Inside a cave with hundreds of Buddhas

Postal Savings

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A Favorite - Gung Pao Ji Ding

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At the Butcher's

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Down the Street

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A View Downtown

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A Good Breakfast

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Mah jong

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Calligraphy

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Keepin' On

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Bravo! They're not going to let a little bit of construction get in their way.

Shops Like These Won't Be Around Forever

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I'm charmed by these shops and buildings that are old, charming and slated no doubt for destruction.

There's something about China that's so beautiful in a wabi sabi way.

My Market

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Walking

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Getting Ready

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It's an old photo from the spring, but I like the boy's spirit.

Near My Apartment

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Reclining Buddha

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Portuguese Egg Tarts

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Going My Way?

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Contemplative

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Light Show Downtown

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In a Cave

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Fish

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Fresh. For Sale.

Delivering Flowers

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Another Favorite Restaurant

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Buddha

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Remember we have Thousand Buddha Mountain so conceivably I could do a Buddha a day for a few years.

Theme Day: Open Air Market

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This is one of my favorite themes anyway. If you search through this blog you'll soon see that I could probably do a whole blog just on open air markets.

Click here for thumbnails of all City Daily Photo Theme Day participants.

Theme Day Preview: Market on the Eastside

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Seafood to Go

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Tourists

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Down the Street

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Chinese Fresco

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Hot!

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Organized

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Preparing

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Some boys get ready to demonstrate some martial art skills.

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On Sale

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You can buy all kinds of foodstuffs in my neighborhood.

Hard Seat Trains

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Nearing Jinan. The hard seats are so lively -- and dirty. So for short trips, I take one sometime.

Don't they look good?

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In Jan Wong's A Comrade Lost and Found: A Beijing Memoir she mentions peaches, perfect looking peaches, that quickly decay. Still I thought these looked enticing.

Jinan's Best Pasteries

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Sometimes they're all gone by the time I get to this baker. Today there were 9 left of these slightly sweet delights. What makes them so good is that they aren't too sweet or too big.

Yes, More Construction

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Note that safety is the bicyclist's and pedestrian's problem.

Imposing

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The guard wouldn't let me go in. I wanted to see what was beyond this gate. We foreign teachers have wondered. Some think a government office; others a theater. Even my Chinese friends don't know. Or won't say.

More Construction

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To Serve & Protect

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Our neighborhood police station.

Tea

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You can buy it from a vendor down the street.

Serenity

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New Neighbor

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There's a new fast food restaurant (serving Chinese food) opening in the neighborhood. I don't think they can improve upon the other restaurants nearby.

Wide Load

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So many deliveries here look so precarious.

Parasols

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Theme Day: Bright Colors

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Again, I'm late on this theme day. August's theme is "Bright Colors" and China is full of them, though it's also full of lots of grays and browns.

Gung pao chicken (a.k.a. Kung pao) is one of our mainstays here. I order it bu la da (not spicy), which would be verboden in the West. They do look askance here, but since I'm foreign they do it.

Click here for thumbnails of all City Daily Photo Theme Day participants.

Pleasant Goat Unveiled

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It must be hot in that costume. In case you don't know, Pleasant Goat is "the" favorite cartoon character in China now.

100th Post

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Shooting the Breeze

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At the Market

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Red Lanterns

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Beer Garden

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In the US, where we're quite safety conscious, we would never let anyone set up a temporary beer garden under an overpass. The Chicago police would insist on a liquor license. In days gone by, they'd want a kick back.

Willow Stadium

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Next to the stadium that looks like a lotus is a new stadium, also designed by the Bird's Nest team, that resembles a willow tree. The willow is Jinan's city tree.

I'm fond of them both. They're far from my neighborhood way on the southeast side of town.

If you like seafood

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Local Pool Hall

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Jinan's "Lotus" Stadium

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Designed by the people who created the Olympic Bird's Nest, this is the new stadium built in 2009 for the Chinese National Games.

Dining al Fresco

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Just in summer this restaurant expands onto the street.

Manhole Covers

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Jinan's city flower if the lotus, which appears on many manhole covers here.

Famous Athleticwear

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361 Degrees is more or less the Chinese Nike.