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Ayant besoin d'aller au consulat de Shanghai pour des papiers, consulat ou mon amie Wei devait aussi aller pour recuperer son visa pour la France, nous en avons profite pour passer la journee au "marche aux faux" du quartier HongQiao de Shanghai et j'ai emmene Claire avec moi.
Mademoiselle ralait un peu au debut (la visite au consulat n'etait clairement pas le moment le plus drole de la journee, mais il fallait que j'y aille et ca n'a pas dure longtemps), mais quand on s'est trouve au marche....elle a change de chanson. Bon, le plus dur a ete de lui faire comprendre qu'il fallait me laisser negocier...elle voulait trop certaines choses, ca se voyait...
Enfin, la-bas m'a ete fait un super compliment, traduit par Wei (mon chinois est encore trop limite): je serai plus dure en negociation que les chinois. Ca, pour du compliment, c'est du compliment!
As I needed to go to the consulate in Shanghai about some papers, and as my friend Wei was to go to the consulate that same day to pick her visa to France, we then decided to meet there and spend our day in Shanghai, at the HongQiao fake market, and I brought Claire with me.
The miss was a bit grumpy in a first time- the time at the consulate was of course not the funniest one of the day, but I really had to go there and it was quite quick- but when we finally arrived at the market…she changed her mood.
The hardest thing there was to have her understand that she had to let me negociate…she too much wanted a few things, and it was much too obvious…
Then there I was made a really great compliment, translated by Wei -my Chinese is still too limited to understand - : I am supposed to be tougher than Chinese people when negociating.
To be a compliment, this is quite a compliment!
Ci-dessous, quelques photos du marche
Down-there, a few photos of the market
In a first time, various jewelries
Tout d'abord divers bijoux...
Wei et Claire regardent les bracelets et colliers
Wei and Claire are watching bracelets and necklaces
Then bags, first from foreign brand...
Puis les sacs, d'abord de marque etrangere...
then chinese fabric bags for foreigners
Puis les sacs en tissu chinois, a l'attention des etrangers
Les vetements, de marque etrangere, ou pour les etrangers: Tshirts avec dessins chinois ou vetements typiques chinois en soie ou non
Foreign brand clothes, or for foreigners: Tshirts with chinese designs or typical chinese clothes with or without silk fabric
D'autres sacs de marque etrangere
Other foreign brands bags
one tea shop
Un magasin de the...
...avec ses thes divers et varies, et ses services a the
...with its various teas, and its tea services
Theieres en terre cuite
terracotta teapots
A nouveau des bijoux
jewelry again
trinkets and dolls
des bibelots et des poupees
des baguettes, des peintures, d'autres services a the, des pinceaux a calligraphie et peinture chinoise
chopsticks, paints, some other tea-services, calligraphy and chinese paintings paintbrushes
Pause dejeuner
lunch break
some other necklaces, pearls ones this time
d'autres colliers, en perles cette fois
des bracelets en cristal
some cristal bracelets
des boucles d'oreille en perles. Wei et moi avons choisi une paire comme celle a l'extreme gauche
pearls earrings. Wei and I chose one pair like the one on the extreme left
