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The restaurants are usually open around the evening – but the fresh(est) seafood actually arrives into the square early early morning. You’ll find it busiest from like 2am to 5am on weekends – lots of people go there after clubs/KTV/whatever. I think the crates of shrimp arrive at like 3am.. you can go buy your seafood in the ‘warehouse’ of seafood and bring it to a shop to cook up how you like if you don’t want to pick from what they have, also.
Guitar Hero and Rock Band hardware (guitar, drum set, etc) available on Tao Bao. Last I went to the computer city area they had guitars, but not the full rock band set – I think on Tao Bao you can find a set for about 700 800rmb… I have Guitar Hero on Wii, but am tryin to get ahold of the rock band set (likely for xbox), if anyone finds or if I find a good place to purchase can post the source here 😀
RE: Birthday, it wasn’t free last month – I went on a weekday with 2 girls and one had her birthday, it was like 20% discount though for each of us — in addition to the bank card and weekday difference..works out cheap. Also – you do not need to go on your birthday, I think it’s within a week or two weeks of your birthday, not sure on the exact date range. It’s also not as busy on weekdays which means you’re likely to get a better seat.
@justinf RE: “However they did mention they have a $500 USD per year cap on outgoing transfers. “
I use Bank of Agriculture in Chengdu – no limits. The most I’ve sent at once is 7500usd, but it may be <10k allowed per transfer – and back when the limit was 5k USD I’ve done two in a week..maybe different banks have different restrictions though.
They’ll let ya stay, just stop serving out new food at around 9. Also, if you go earlier, you can get some of the cooked-served-gone til next cook foods like beijing duck, foie gras, and one other thing near the BBQ rack.
Going earlier also usually nets you a better table, sometimes they end up crammin’ people in the back which is inconvenient for beer/sake runs on weekends especially.. I wonder if they’d let ya just grab a keg instead of glass by glass ?!
My girl is addicted to it. She loves the foie gras and beijing duck, shrimp on tap, and the atmosphere I guess… I just love the fact I can grab drinks as frequently as I want – most buffet with ‘beer on tap’ or whatever always end up so restricted, waiting around for drinks etc, but since they just toss kegs and line-ups of sake on the bar top for you to grab, it’s never restrictive and I can get my driiink on… I also like the atmosphere, it’s really big and open, with a lot of ‘life’, live pianist in the middle next to the chocolate fondue fountains, feels like a busy marketplace where everything is free as opposed to restaurant.
I’ll be there in about 5 hours sake bombing it up 😀
Oh, I forgot the best part. There are often some fine little hunnies walking around, food..liquor..hot girls wandering about with easy access — that was the missing key in the last post 😀
Best pre-club/bar experience in Chengdu: 四海一家 (si hai yi jia, 4th floor at Yanlord, the building with LV at the corner on renmin nan lu)
Forget the hundreds of types of food available to snatch up as you want, but they keep Sake, Wine, and Carlsberg on tap – self-serve. I usually fill a mug 80% beer and drop a few sakes in to make my own little bombs. Now, though, they have a sub-zero icebox Vodka Bar next to the normal bar. It’s almost never got anyone in it – they just peep in – seems the locals just go there to snatch up crab legs, foie gras, beijing duck, and haagan-dazs. The food isn’t all top quality, but with some sampling you’ll find what suits you.
I think it’s like, 186rmb/person for weekend dinners, with some discount if you pay via bank of china debit card.
I’ll be headin’ there this weekend assuming the weather is as it has been the last few days.
If anyone is interested (likely tomorrow between 10am-noon) PM me and I’ll send out a message or whatever upon confirmation.
International price, not international standards in quality 🙂
The prices range (last I checked) from about 800 (maybe it was a discount price) to 1200 for 18. There are also a few courses out near like, QingCheng, and Mu Ma shan..
To give you an idea on Chengdu housing – I can buy a *house* in Vegas for like 1/2 the SQM cost as buying a shitty apartment in 2.5 ring road south Chengdu. Vegas also ‘over-built’ during a relative economic boom in the last decade. The bigger the rise, the bigger the fall. Of course “long-term” this isn’t a permanent issue as you mention Ye Ming, but long-term is decades not years, I guess there is very little that will have a long-term consequence as the market generally goes up over long periods of time in any ‘lifetime’ industry or investment, stocks, property, bond, etc..regardless of the blocks booms and busts inbetween 😀
Charlie, I appreciate the insight, Adam Mayer is an architect – he is in the right place, he’s involved in the building building side of things. Real estate investment (on our scale, especially) isn’t about building buildings and how long the construction contracts will flow in, it’s about the effect after investors are the only people able to buy property and real home owners who live in the single property they’re able to afford stop being able to afford new properties. When that shift from a seller’s market to a buyer’s market takes place, and the % of vacant properties is really high, it’s an indication of a housing bubble where new construction is simply unaffordable to anyone but more investors – and investors stop investing when their existing ‘investment properties’ aren’t able to sell. Of course China (as a gov’t entity) is fighting hard to both hide data and prevent a pop, but the market is *absolutely* in charge..they’ve tried to establish several rules and regulations to slow down the growth that happened in early 2000’s but it may already be too late. From your experiences surely you’ve met a ton of rich people in China – and I’d wager many of them had significant real estate holdings at some point or another..it has been an absolute boom for a lot of people, the problem is whether the extremely rich can sustain that which made them rich on their own – because the majority of people who live here are poor.
Real estate investment in my opinion, is about judging where the next big growth happens – not looking at what’s already growing. Infrastructure and gigantic work parks (subway, tech park) etc have major effects here, and unless you have inside information about a new gigantic park before real estate moguls I’d wager you’ll not be able to get ‘in’ before it’s already jacked itself up in price. Chengdu has kind of levelled off in price in my opinion, in the last year/two, it was really really hot between like 2002-2008 though. There’s no way I’d invest now.
Vincento, the “mail list” for real estate analysis is from CBRE. They managed to snake up one of my business cards at some point and added me without request a few years ago 😉 I don’t remove myself just so I can gloss over their publishings and see if anything is interesting.
Profitable to buy a place right now?
Student of real estate?
I’d wager you’re high. 😀
There is no way I’d consider buying property right now. Surely you’ve studied housing bubbles, factors and indicators leading up to them, and the current state of China. Sure, Chengdu is growing, lots of companies are moving manufacturing etc here… but do you seriously think that the workers who populate those factories can buy houses here? I get monthly China Real Estate analysis in my mailbox and have for some years, while, I don’t always agree with the conclusions – looking at the reality that so many property sales are to investors who sit on property for resale and the utterly enormous amount of real estate development and *already very high price* when considering the income of the market, invest/resale may end up with nobody able to afford to buy, and when the market shifts (or has shifted, the amount of real data coming out is limited by Government trying to control and prevent a bubble from popping at the moment) from seller’s market to buyer’s market everything starts to c c c cruuummmmbllleeee…
I can watch it on Hulu.com, I pipe my VPN out from San Fran – it’s always listed, just have no interest in watching people house hunt. I’ll search for this ep and see how silly they can make ’em look trying really hard to speak extremely thick Sichuan-hua!
Haha.. interesting. I’ve not seen a post like that, but I would DEFINITELY be interested in a B Fade to Black on CH “A” if you can PM me where to contact you.
HAHA I find it hilarious Dustin (Maxelli) was on house hunters and desperately need to find this episode.
Hey guys,
I ordered some clubs from ShenZhen, “Callaway” knockoffs including bag/drivers/irons – actually happy with the quality for the price. I’ll head there this weekend if the weather is nice, will post a time and if any of you want to head down, can use my clubs or borrow the ones they have if they still lend them.. also, the dude I ordered clubs from has lefties, I brought up like 3 sets that time.
I never noticed, maybe one post that made no sense, but it’s China – I figured it was someone trying to baidu-translate something that should have been google-translated 😀
The best quote, which summarizes the mentality of over-the-top conspiracy theorists in general, can be seen clearly in this tidbit of insight into the writer’s mentality:
“that even I only know very little of.”
The driving range can be found here:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ll=30.606743,104.049325&spn=0.020869,0.029783&z=15
I bought my own clubs, ordered several sets from Shenzhen – they’re actually not bad, even though they’re fake 😀 You can also rent clubs there, they had loaners before but I don’t know if they still do and if so, I think they only had 7’s for loan.
