accidentalchinesehipsters:

This man looks suspiciously like a relative of mine would if he had a bad perm and were traveling undercover in Shanghai, disguised as a brown bear. Perhaps he’s targeting the Honey Tree as the site for some yakuza-style extortion… Is that you, Uncle Peter?

Everyone take a look at the girl in the background too. I think she is lost.

Shot by Hally and Laszlo in the French Concession, in front of an electronics mart on Fuxing Lu.

I used to go to this electronics mall all the time. I got the materials to fix my Shanghai studio’s fuse box there. And by materials, I mean wire. And by fuse box, I mean the archaic electrical splitting system in my building. Here’s a photo of doing that repair on the windowsill across from the elevators on my floor. (If you’re looking at that photo, the beigey piece at the bottom left is what plugs back into the electrical wall in the room down the hall.) January 20, 2011. Huh.

See? My history is right there online. That’s really useful to me.