Trip To Shanghai, China Part 2
I guess, for those who've been to China, the most unforgettable experience would be their visit not to historical sites but to China's public toilets.
I remembered a friend of mine who told me her experience while she was there more than a decade ago. No doors at the public toilets. You will have no choice but to choose the last stall in the public toilets in order to have some "privacy". Better to get a friend to stand guard outside. Some suggested to bring a "sarong" to cover up, while some even suggested to wear adult diapers...some would rather risk urinary tract infection. But the most common of all I guess would be to use an umbrella. However using an umbrella may not give you the privacy you want cos whenever one of the local passed by the stall they may be curious enough to pull up the umbrella to take a peek...
Well I never thought that I would have my own experience on the matter as well cause China is quite modern nowadays. Of course all those public toilets have doors now and some of those at the restaurants we've visited were quite modern with automatic flush system...neat. For those drain toilet, well no problem there either except I wonder why they want to use black glossy tiles, I mean you can see the shadowy reflection of the person in the next stall doing her business. Running water is a must for drain toilets, else the stink would suffocate you.
There was a time when our Coach stopped at a rest station and as usual all the ladies will start marching to the toilets.. Now at this public toilet there was a number of stalls and some of them are without doors. It so happened that at this very public toilet I get to witness China's Toilet Culture.....I saw a local Chinese squatting down doing her business...the thing is she was facing the walkway......I didn't get to see her "moon" but thanks goodness I was also spared from the sight of her "abalone"!!! My my...beside this case...I also noticed that no matter the age of the local Chinese, whether young trendy girls or Ah Sohs...they don't lock their doors when they use the toilet. I guess its a cultural thing.
But what in my opinion is quite unacceptable is WHY they don't throw the used tissues into the toilet and flush it. Instead they throw them into the waste basket inside the toilet!!! Eeewwww! I hate it whenever it was those squatting toilets where you have no choice but to squat, hence bringing yourself closer to the proximity of the wastebasket overflowing with used tissues......think menstruation....aaaarrrggghhhhhh soooo unhygienic!!!
Maybe back in those days they use the "Mah Tung" (wooden bucket) to collect all those bodily wastes and then used them as fertilizers...well it would be messy with tissues all over the field right...so I guess its another cultural thing kua...
I remembered a friend of mine who told me her experience while she was there more than a decade ago. No doors at the public toilets. You will have no choice but to choose the last stall in the public toilets in order to have some "privacy". Better to get a friend to stand guard outside. Some suggested to bring a "sarong" to cover up, while some even suggested to wear adult diapers...some would rather risk urinary tract infection. But the most common of all I guess would be to use an umbrella. However using an umbrella may not give you the privacy you want cos whenever one of the local passed by the stall they may be curious enough to pull up the umbrella to take a peek...
Well I never thought that I would have my own experience on the matter as well cause China is quite modern nowadays. Of course all those public toilets have doors now and some of those at the restaurants we've visited were quite modern with automatic flush system...neat. For those drain toilet, well no problem there either except I wonder why they want to use black glossy tiles, I mean you can see the shadowy reflection of the person in the next stall doing her business. Running water is a must for drain toilets, else the stink would suffocate you.
There was a time when our Coach stopped at a rest station and as usual all the ladies will start marching to the toilets.. Now at this public toilet there was a number of stalls and some of them are without doors. It so happened that at this very public toilet I get to witness China's Toilet Culture.....I saw a local Chinese squatting down doing her business...the thing is she was facing the walkway......I didn't get to see her "moon" but thanks goodness I was also spared from the sight of her "abalone"!!! My my...beside this case...I also noticed that no matter the age of the local Chinese, whether young trendy girls or Ah Sohs...they don't lock their doors when they use the toilet. I guess its a cultural thing.
But what in my opinion is quite unacceptable is WHY they don't throw the used tissues into the toilet and flush it. Instead they throw them into the waste basket inside the toilet!!! Eeewwww! I hate it whenever it was those squatting toilets where you have no choice but to squat, hence bringing yourself closer to the proximity of the wastebasket overflowing with used tissues......think menstruation....aaaarrrggghhhhhh soooo unhygienic!!!
Maybe back in those days they use the "Mah Tung" (wooden bucket) to collect all those bodily wastes and then used them as fertilizers...well it would be messy with tissues all over the field right...so I guess its another cultural thing kua...
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