Two of our favourite places where we live

These are some of our favourite place in SIP (both in the same neighbourhood), the furthest being 300m away. The first one is our Muslim restaurant. No one speaks English (or Yingyu, as I learnt last night) but they always try to talk to us, Kane especially. The ladies are not very talkative, but it may be part of their religion. They are a family business with brothers, wives, sisters, a grandmother and some children, all pitch in to run the business. The 'man', there are several, but there is one in particular who is the boss, he'd only be in his early 30's takes most of the orders and money... no paper needed to write down orders. It is a dirty little shop, but it has character, pictures to choose your food from and it's cheap, our favourite meal 'la mien' RMB9 a meal, that's only $1.80. Here are some more pictures that I took walking home from la mien, it's only around the corner. The first one is walking past some shops, our Muslim restaurant is snugly tucked in behind these shops on the right.
One is of a building site. We are getting a new shopping mall right next door. Yes there are those 'China' wheelbarrow bike everywhere! This man on the building site was very happy to have his photo taken. I wonder if he knew his image would be splashed over the Internet.
The others are of the road towards our Neighbourhood centre (shopping centre), the view of our apartments walking past them and a few from the front of our complex.

Our apartment block is the taller one directly to the left behind the building in the middle. It's sort of hidden by the tree.

Oh... PS - The bloke walking in many of the photos with Kane is Bruce. He is from Canada. He lives in the same block as us and also teaches Grade 4 with Kane.