Surprising no one answered yet... Jay A. Hricak wrote: > Hey I am going to be in Guangzhou for a few weeks within the next few > months...
A few weeks? Make sure you visit some other sites in the province. GZ is a major city, but not scenic or historic enough to entertain a foreigner for a few weeks. > Any cool Gunpla or anime shops or bookstores? I'm betting I'll find some > fun stuff in some of the MASSIVE department stores they have, but was We were there briefly in 2003. The way things are whirling in China, my experience is pretty useless for you. If you have a few weeks, put on a thick skin and explore. My only finds in China were a few hobby mooks, essentially color-photocopy of Hobby Japan mooks. Not very interesting for most tourists, if you like hobby mooks you probably have all the originals already, if you don't like them, why waste luggage quota on them? The big dept stores would probably disappoint Gundam hunters, I found only a few Wing kits (Bandai and Bendi placed on the same shelf) in a tiny corner of the large toys dept. Slightly cheaper then US, but more expensive than HK and Japan. I won't be surprised if you find the big stores are just poor imitations of Target and Galleria. > wondering if anyone else could recommend where to go? Recommendations for > restaurants and/or any other entertainment or sights are welcome! I will > also have to find a Chinese Drug store and Cooking shop, but they should be > easy enough ;) If you are haulling stuffs home you are better off with spices (spices isn't a strong suit for S. China), herbal medicine, fungi and "sea goods". Shark fins, sea cucumbers and such. But again... the way we are so globalized already, you have to be pretty resourceful to find stuffs that you can't find in major US/Canada cities. Hey didn't we discuss this before? A variety of Chinese food (ham etc), liquor and medicine are banned in the US and/or Canada. Have you fill while there. Smuggle them at your own risk (and there are two kinds of risk, you know right?). > I will be coming home 20 lbs heavier from all the eating of course! But you should be doing a lot of walking too. -- Dr. Core -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II [email protected] Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list
