Guangzhou December 2008 – Dishifu Lu
Dishifu Lu is a shopping strip in the heart of the city, much like Bei Jing Lu. Like Bei Jing Lu, the shopping was fantastic with lots of hole-in-the-wall shops mixed in with other multi-leveled flashy ones.
It’s also full of ornate buildings, like this colonial looking one that is the Peace Cinema.
And this one that looked like a gaudy pagoda that is the Tao Tao Ju Restaurant – they served fantastic dimsum.
At night …
the neon lights come on and it was super awesome.
It adds a totally different atmosphere to the place.
And just because they could …
Yeah, that’s the entire exterior of a mall lighted up by neon lights. Shame about the carbon footprint, but ain’t it pretty?
You can also sorta make out the number of people that were there – it was madness. Another thing about Dishifu Lu is, the road is not closed off for the pedestrians. Cars do still go through one part of it but people walk on the street anyway. This is best illustrated by the clip below (1:42).
Dishifu Lu Pedestrians from Marcus Ooi on Vimeo.
Dishifu Lu was indeed memorable for me. 
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haha i like your text inclusions of honk honk and LOL at the woman holding the kid at 1:02
Heheh yeah she looked annoyed.
Yah, I agree about the neon lights. China has this fetish with bright lights. Shanghai has a street just like that. Very pretty at night.
Not just China it’d seem – most of East Asia has the same fetish. China, HK, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan all seem to love their neon.
Dude do you even go to work anymore
Nah I am just kidding, you actaully kind make me want to do the same, better start saving.
Well this was over the Xmas/NYE holidays so it’s not like I’m holidaying all the time.
do pple care about carbon footprint in china?
BM: they prolly don’t even know the meaning or idea behind it.