This is one of my favourite pictures from Shanghai. It’s on a road just off a main city centre shopping street. It shows how Chinese men like to raise their t-shirts above their stomachs (the man in the red shorts) to keep themselves cool.
The most people who do this are pot-bellied Chinese shop owners. You’d think they’d do anything to try to get tourists to come in their shops rather than scare them away like that.
Did you have to take a “tour” of a watermelon shop? Not sure if you liked the trip, but it looks like you got some free time to take shots like these. I didn’t think of it at the time, but a Shanghai specialty is eel and coriander. Did you eat any? Unagi is a little expensive in Japan.
No didn’t eat any eel either. I prefer Japanese food to Chinese food.
But I LOVE eel.
The obsession with stomachs seems to be an East Asian cultural thing- the Japanese often pat their own bellies. It’s a comfort thing, I think…
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You see men doing that all the time in Panama.