YiWu by Plane

June 29 - July 2 (click here for this location on the map)



Having arrived in the commercial centre of the world, that is to say the chances are that your Christmas tree and all ornaments have been produced or at least traded here in YiWu, we found our next dear hostess Jessica at the hotel reception.



Aileen and Jessica

As we discovered that the large discount stores were only a couple of steps away from our hotel, Aileen & Jessica and myself went over to find clothes, shoes (!) and ... magic tricks.

I found a branch office of Mr Tang's Magic Shop (based in Shenzhen, a place we will be visiting later on). The branch manager was very kind, tried his best to set his wallet to fire and had his young assistant speak English with me. This is an example of their brochure text in English... be amazed ;o)

"Make greatest efforts the seashore city- Shenzhen that the magic thing limited company of world locates the beauty, is the subsidiary of whole of the limited company that makes greatest efforts international development Shenzhen, we are local scales biggest, the most whole professional magic development in product. Produce. Sell the base."

I bought a trick called the Magic Mirror. Ahum, I had to buy at least ten of them in fact... a big achievement after opposing to their initial minimum quantity of 307 pieces! Well, I might try to sell them forward to Edinburgh's Magic Circle at our next meeting ;o)

Below I have enclosed a short (!) film of the dinner table in the restaurant which we visited with Aileen's Chinese workmates.Dinner table filmed from the spinning disc on the table, called a 'lazy Susan'