Chinese Toilets

Beijing, China - stinkyben - Monday, March 20th, 2006 : goo

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Beijing has these amazing old neighborhoods known as Hutongs, full of tiny houses in mazelike back alleys. Problem is, since most of these neighborhoods are ancient, there is no running water, so each section of the nabe will have its own toilet area, which you can always find by following the ammonia stench. Unfortunatly, most of these neighborhoods are being torn down to modernize the city, part of the Chinese effort to (intentionaly) destroy their own cultural heritage. You can tell which buildings are due to go by the spray painted black numbers on the sides of them.

This is the most typical of the toilets you'll find in lower class Hutongs.

This toilet is on a main drag north of the Forbidden City, one of the Hutongs not slated to be demolished. The Chinese government has however decided to modernize the toilet systems here in order to impress all the foreigner that'll be coming in town for the Olympics.

This toilet is actually not in a Hutong but inside of a punk rock venue called the Nameless Highland Bar. This is pretty typical of what you'll find in most bars and resteraunts that cater to the normal urban Chinese. Meaning, places they don't expect westerners or party cadres to be visiting.

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