Solsetur12h ago
Nanako Matsushima probably remains one of the few Japanese actors I can recognise and immediately get their name right (seen in a izakaya in Guangzhou)
#signs #cantondiaries
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Weather warnings and I took this pic cos of the Chinglish (which isn’t that bad, the choice of words were cute)
#signs #cantondiaries
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Chinglish on old well in the Chan ancestral hall museum
#sign #cantondiaries #china #guangzhou
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A xiaomi electric sedan car in seagreen but its emblem has been changed to the Macdonalds sign
#signs #cantondiaries #EV
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These words on mirrors thing is quite a common thing in Chinese restaurants, but this one caught my attention cos its subject is cloud-themed and clouds are quite a big thing in Guangdong/Guangzhou (there is a mountain called Baiyun, literally White Clouds Mountain)
#signs #cantondiaries
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RE: https://famichiki.jp/@solsetur/116396604971499383

This classic - typing “gum” instead of “gym”. The mall is huge and this was in the lift lobby in a basement so maybe the Pokemon folks have yet to find the error (or they did and shrugged it off haha)
#signs #cantondiaries

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Public service announcement reminders - a comic in the tunnel to the metro station featuring a comic strip of someone fainting on the train, and another lady mishearing what happened and panicking and causing a stampede as everyone tries to escape the train carriage
#signs #cantondiaries
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Show threadSolsetur11h ago
Dessert store (store name 粤南信) had a poster for their store’s Yue Nam Shun’s milk featuring their black dairy cow (edit: thanks to Amuamu I realise this actually is a farm buffalo milk advert and I did not try it!)
#signs #cantondiaries
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In one of the residential alleys (Huilin street I think) we came across this striking red poster of a actor/model dressed in Yue opera finery
#signs #cantondiaries
Show thread遊具 6h ago

@solsetur safety and police posters are one of my favorite art form !

Evil tattooed blond knife guy, the Canton menace !

Show threadSolsetur4h ago
@fetchezlavache there were quite a few good ones I should take more pics of them today. This one made me laugh though