China Toilet Groove (Contains Video)

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Everyone who travels in China for more than, say, five minutes, has something to say about her toilets.

But I stand by my column (above) – they are nothing! Nothing, compared to only a few years ago. Here’s one:

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Inside, or rather, behind the corrugated wall, was a deep ditch, not at all empty, with two narrow planks balanced across it. One slip of a toe and I wouldn’t have been here today.

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Now? Nothing! It’s almost impossible to fall into anything and drown anywhere.

The last big China trip I went on, to northern Yunnan province, this was the worst toilet we found:

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It was a kind of trough that wasn’t we suspected, rinsed out all that often. And yes, it did smell. Ironically this was the only toilet we had to pay to use.

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Talking of toilets, now you can learn Cantonese through the medium of song!

我要去廁所 – O yiu heui chiso (I have to go to the toilet)
廁所有冇廁紙 – Chiso you mou chiji (Is there toilet paper in the toilet)
大陸廁所而家唔錯 – Dai Luk chiso yiga m cho (Mainland toilets are now not bad)

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