shanghai blog

Friday, 8 June 2007

How many people does it take to...

It's very easy to fall into the trap of using cliches and stereotypes. I would be as sick as a parrot if anyone ever accused me of doing so.

Breakfast in the hotel- a fascinating topic, no? There were maybe 20 people eating breakfast in the hotel. There were at least 12 staff that I counted hanging around including a dedicated egg-frying-man and his egg-frying-supervisor, 3 people on reception desk, plus a further 2 sat behind another kind of reception desk thing inside the restaurant doing precisely nothing at all. There was also a bloke wearing a uniform who's job it appeared to be, to smoke menacingly.

In a country of 1.3 billion people, I guess there is no shortage of labour.

To be fair, the fried egg was good.

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