Koojos neighbourhood.

[Cujo]

Trap for young players that one.

Nope, trap for dopey old fuckers.

They're all the same these days.
That must have been long ago.
The YUAN rules now.

[9999]

So Koojo, you still haven't told us the real reason you positioned yourself so close to Macau. What are you not telling us?

[Cujo]

^ Never gambled there, I'm here because this is where the comany is.
Anyway, went for a walk in a different dirrection yesterday.

Here's a few from yesterday.














These guys are everywhere and the reason it's so clean.






















Another one




Starbucks






The bikes are for public use, you pay 1000 deposit and get a swipe card to unlock the bike, you can take it from any rank and deposit it at any other one, The first two hours are free so as long as you put it back into a rank within 2 hours.



Fruit seller.






Public loos.







Fletch doing a passable impression of Robert Cray.

[CNF55]

Thanks for the pics, Koojo, looks like a pleasant enough place.

What kind of work do expats find there?

[Cujo]

All sorts.
Most are either working for foreign companies factories, teachers, or trading.
A couple of factories here for eaxample are Clarks shoes, Phillips, Bosche and many others.

[Cujo]

just took the pup for his piano lessons.
Took a few while I was out.

Here's where he goes, 10 minutes walk from our place.


Did someone ask where all the people were?
here they are waiting for the bus.














Shoe repair on the go.

[terry57]

Really nice thread mate,

Cheers

[aging one]

Does Zhuhai have some kind of duty free status? My wife took my kids on some incentive tour she always gets and had 4 nights in Hong Kong and Macau with a side night in Zhuhai, the kids really enjoyed it as the wifes tours are all 5 star and there is good shopping. But they are keen for a deal, and wont be overcharged. Sadly I will not go on bing bang bong package tours no matter how many stars they are....

[Cujo]

Does Zhuhai have some kind of duty free status? My wife took my kids on some incentive tour she always gets and had 4 nights in Hong Kong and Macau with a side night in Zhuhai, the kids really enjoyed it as the wifes tours are all 5 star and there is good shopping. But they are keen for a deal, and wont be overcharged. Sadly I will not go on bing bang bong package tours no matter how many stars they are....

It's an SEZ which gives foreign companies tax incentives but that's all, and less and less of them.

[Toadman]

Zhuhai is a very nice city, wouldn't call it small though. It has a large expat community .

I see you are a newbie to Zhuhai.

I am a newbie posting to this forum, but definitely not a newbie to China.

[Cujo]

Zhuhai is a very nice city, wouldn't call it small though. It has a large expat community .

I see you are a newbie to Zhuhai.

I am a newbie posting to this forum, but definitely not a newbie to China.

My point was you must be a newbie to ZHUHAI. It has grown from a small city, almost a town, but still,
maybe not compared to wherever you come from, but by China standards, Zhuhai is a small city.

[Toadman]

Zhuhai is a very nice city, wouldn't call it small though. It has a large expat community .

I see you are a newbie to Zhuhai.

I am a newbie posting to this forum, but definitely not a newbie to China.

My point was you must be a newbie to ZHUHAI. It has grown from a small city, almost a town, but still,
maybe not compared to wherever you come from, but by China standards, Zhuhai is a small city.

I probably should of explained better. Sorry I have spent some time in xingping which is about an hour outside of xian. In that town I was the only white honkey that I ever saw. That was a small town in china.
Now enen xingping is changing and getting the standard Chinese influx of money , 6 land roads that go nowhere and the typical hi-rise apartments.

[barrylad66]

great pics and thread,and BLOODY HELL the place really is clean...

[ossierob]

Good thread Koojo.....yes the place is encouragingly clean.....thanks

[bushwacker]

Really enjoyed the pics thanks for taking the time. I am starting to look for a new place to visit for a few months as Thailand is getting to be too normal.

[liveinlos]

I lived there in Zhuhai for 6 months myself. Hated the Chinese food they cook in that nasty hot spicy peppercorn oil and almost everything else for food with the exception of the place next to Papa John's Pizza. It's a shame more people do not speak English or even understand a word of English. One thing I noticed about Zhuhai, many of the products in the upscale shopping areas are counterfeit. I was in the Levi's shop in the same building shown in one of your photos and all the jeans are counterfeit. Turn up the bottom hem and look inside at the crazy, crooked 1 row stitching that should be 2 even rows. Lots of KFC's got bust recently for being fake and after eating at the one in your photo, I believe that has to be a fake as well. Working at the largest state owned Aviation company, 2 out of every 100 engineers could speak English to the point you could understand it. It was a good experience for about 2 weeks and after that is slowly declined. The beach sand is extremely course and the water is muddy and brown from mixing with the river. Even with a great ocean view condo, I was completely bored. Getting in and out to Macau across the border was a pain in the ass as well

[Cujo]

I lived there in Zhuhai for 6 months myself. Hated the Chinese food they cook in that nasty hot spicy peppercorn oil and almost everything else for food with the exception of the place next to Papa John's Pizza.

You can get every Chinese cuisine here, from hot spicy Hunan food to bland oily cantonese food. The Coral de place you're talking about is ok, it's the equivalent of fast food, fortunately they have pictures on the wall. It can be frustrating trying to order in a restaurant if you don't speak Chinese.

It's a shame more people do not speak English or even understand a word of English. One thing I noticed about Zhuhai, many of the products in the upscale shopping areas are counterfeit. I was in the Levi's shop in the same building shown in one of your photos and all the jeans are counterfeit. Turn up the bottom hem and look inside at the crazy, crooked 1 row stitching that should be 2 even rows. Lots of KFC's got bust recently for being fake and after eating at the one in your photo, I believe that has to be a fake as well.

That's a real KFC, but yes, there are a lot of fake goods here.

Working at the largest state owned Aviation company, 2 out of every 100 engineers could speak English to the point you could understand it. It was a good experience for about 2 weeks and after that is slowly declined. The beach sand is extremely course and the water is muddy and brown from mixing with the river. Even with a great ocean view condo, I was completely bored. Getting in and out to Macau across the border was a pain in the ass as well

It can be quite boring if you don't know the place and don't have a circle of friends, I'm assuming you never found bar street, or the go kart tracks or took day trips out to the islands or went out to the hot springs for a weekend or two or spent a relaxed afternoon drinking beers in lotus street at the street beer bars watching the hotties come and go.

If you go around to Wan Zai (where the seafood street is) you can get a ferry across the river to Macau, it takes about 5 minutes. There aren't the ques at immigration there.

There's really loads to do here if you get out and about, (We spent the afternoon yesterday at the lost city waterpark) or you can buy a pile of DVDs for the equivalent of 25 baht each and a box of Tsing Dao beers (12 large, delivered) for 240 Baht and spend the weekend in watching movies and drinking beer and then go and get a foot massage for 150 baht or even get the top knocked off for 500 baht,

I will admit that's not a great beach but it's right in town, very convenient, you have to go to the islands or the beaches on the western side of town if you want a proper beach experience.
This is Fei Sa tan (Flying sand beach) on the western fringes.

[Neo]

Sluts?

[pseudolus]

Sluts?

All in Macau filling up the goldfish bowls.

[socal]

Zhuhai is a very nice city, wouldn't call it small though. It has a large expat community .

I see you are a newbie to Zhuhai.

I am a newbie posting to this forum, but definitely not a newbie to China.

Nice Sea Doo

[Cujo]

Someone mentioned earlier they prefered the 'lived in' look.
Well my wife has a couple of cousins living in macau and they came over and we met them and a couple of others in the 'lived in' part of town for dinner near the Macau border.
This is not really my neighbourhood as such, down the seedier part of town. Fairly early in the evening.

This is where we ate.


looking the other way.



This guy's cooking the fried Tofu.



Did someone say sluts?



These guys come from XinJiang the Muslim province, they do great BBQ lamb sticks and bread.



Hair wash.cut?



Nick nacks for the fish tank.


DVDs?
These are all legitimate, there's a secret door in the back they usher you through to the alladins cave of Pirated DVDs, (and series)



Setting up for the dinner rush.


Fluit?


Those high rises in the distance are in Macau, the red roof below them is the border crossing.
This is a very busy avenue with people coming and going to and from Macau.


Making glass stuff on the street.


BBQ Oysters.


Dinner over, it's getting dark, go for a wander.





























It's early in the evening, thing's liven up a bit when the shops shut (not to mention it's Tuesday) This is where the Macau and HK guys (and a lot of whiteys) like to hang out at weekends.




These fixed speed fluorescent bikes seem to be all the rage with the kids around here these days.






It's early.



Chicken pita and mystery BBQ on a stick.








Excuse the quality of some of the pics, obviously I need to take more care with the low light no flash shots.

[Dead Metal]

That's a cat of some kind, the kind that eats the beans then poops them then people go through the poop and find the beans and make coffee from them.

Are they the ones mentioned in the film "The Bucket List" with Jack Nicholson & Morgan Freeman. Now that was funny. .

[Dead Metal]

... i expected China to be similar to Thailand, surprised, looks good.
Thanks for sharing....

[wasabi]

Interesting,thanks for sharing.
Are there Tefler vacancies?

[Cujo]

Interesting,thanks for sharing.
Are there Tefler vacancies?

Always.
Being such a desirable location all the big Universities have campuses here.
Salaries seem way high as well.