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Signs & Oddities

An ice-cream teppanyaki at Häagen-Dazs. Fresh fruits and ice-cream served on a hot plate, arranged like Japanese teppanyaki. Häagen-Dazs is very fancy in China—with expensive-looking interiors and immaculately-dressed wait-staff. It's interesting that this is the marketing direction Häagen-Dazs has chosen to approach selling ice-cream in China. This tepanyaki cost 128RMB. For perspective, the maid who comes to clean my parents' apartment 6 mornings a week gets paid 400RMB per month. Or that a dinner for 4 with drinks at a nice restaurants in one of those smaller cities we visited cost less than 100RMB.



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