A few Shanghai tickets, receipts and wrappers

Thanks for sharing, Bazza!

I think the word you want is attentive. On the other hand you have created a hybrid between attentive and affectionate. Whos to say you are wrong.

BTW If you click on the images it will take to the flickr page and I'm slowly adding notes with characters that you should be able to copy and paste for translation purposes or read with an annotator.

yep, it works (at least for the 金茂大厦 one) thanks :-)

What does 毒门秘笈 mean? Poisonous door secret trunk?

I guess it's a game, check the corresponding sectionon the aquarium 水族馆 (shuǐzúguǎn) website. 秘笈 or 秘籍 (mìjí) is a secret / extraordinary book rather than a trunk...

Hehe, saw the waterbottle-wrapper and instandly thought: "Nestle Aquarel?" and I looked again and saw that it realy was from Nèstle. :-)

Cool stuff, Bazza! I enjoy seeing this stuff too.

the 麦当劳 wrapper is a give away though, I mean spending a week in Shanghai and getting that food? Other than anthropology it's a mystery to me why anybody would want to do this when there's so much tastier (probably cheaper) local food available

It had to be done really, I only went once. ;) I was quite surprised to find no English on the display board.

just teasing you Bazza :-) still wouldn't walk in there myself though

I was alone the majority of time (I wouldn't really recommmend going to Shanghai on your own) so it was easier to find somewhere I was a bit familiar with and you can get away eating alone in Mcdonalds. ;)

interesting perspective - I was also alone a lot of the time, but I guess I wasn't looking for familiar places so much, rather the contrary. I found that being alone actually makes it easier to practice your Chinese. Restaurants are a drag with all the formality and because you can't order too many dishes for yourself, but little places are great, I sometimes had to elbow my way around particularly at lunch time, but mostly people were very attentionate (does this word exist?), very nice anyway and eager to get into a conversation. I had more than one 老板 (young or old) come and sit next to me, enquire about the price of my cellphone, did I like their food and such like. Next time I promised my wife I'll take her along, this time I wanted complete immersion for maximum practice

oops, got (at least) one char wrong :