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wherestip wrote:

Disneyland, Shanghai

Yang Tianjiao, a graduate student at the Shanghai East China University of Science and Technology, said she heard about the high prices of food at Disneyland, so she brought boxed food to eat inside the park.

“I saw my friend eating lunch served by Disneyland — and a plate of rice with pork chops cost her 90 yuan” or around $14, Yang said. Her almost-identical boxed food was only about $5.

QHE wrote:

Food prices at Shanghai Disneyland give early visitors heartburn
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-shanghai-disney-food-adv-snap-story.html

At a news conference in Shanghai on Thursday, Shanghai Disney Resort spokesman Murray King said that tickets are the cheapest among all Disney parks around the world and affordable for middle-class Chinese consumers.

From the report "Food prices at Shanghai Disneyland give early visitors heartburn":

An article headlined “The first group of Shanghai Disneyland visitors have wept to the point of fainting inside the park, because it’s too expensive” went viral on WeChat, a Chinese messaging platform.

wherestip wrote:

Thinking back to the old days, the food at 石舫, for example, in Beijing's Summer Palace was also not that great yet marked up quite a bit.

Unlike at the supermarkets, hot dogs easily sell for $5 apiece in the crowded stands of a baseball game.

My guess is food provided at major tourist attractions is mainly to tide over the hunger for hungry tourists; it's not designed to be an all-out dining experience.

国务院副总理汪洋致词时开玩笑说：“华特迪士尼总裁艾格先生与上帝关系不错，开园时下雨。在中国文化里水为财，这下的不是雨，下的是美元和人民币。有大喜临门之意”。

Failure to meet standards

More than 300 of China's 657 cities fail to reach the national standards for flood prevention in urban areas, and more than 90 percent of older urban areas don't even meet the lowest criteria for flood prevention, according to Zhang. "Urban flooding will only get more serious if we continue to ignore the construction of drainage systems and sewers," he said.

wherestip wrote:



Isn't that being a bit melodramatic? I wonder how the headline truly read in its original Chinese.

ysun wrote:

国务院副总理：上海迪士尼下雨 下的是美元人民币
http://news.qq.com/a/20160616/036051.htm

如果水为财的说法成立，不知副总理又如何解释以下事实？

'Rarest' South China floods leave 100 dead, cause $5.6b loss
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-07/02/content_21162613.htm

　在中国文化里水为财，　

ysun wrote:

超越国际水平的物价

Steve,

旅游景点、机场、车站、码头的物价自然会比其他地方高一些，但 “a plate of rice with pork chops cost her 90 yuan or around $14” 确实是超过了国际水平。这样一份快餐在加州的 Monterey Park 市也许只要 $3.99。即使在加州的 Disneyland 和奥兰多的 Disney World，吃一顿快餐也就不过每人十几美元。

QHE wrote:

Steve,

我想应该是这个标题：第一批体验上海迪士尼的人已哭晕

估计那篇文章的作者对网络新词汇也不是很熟悉。

Fargoer wrote:

汪洋就是最大的水呀！他这是在借和外国人调侃提醒国人，他自己就是财神。　

一个副总理，名字叫“汪洋”可以，但是随意谈论“水”的文化象征就不智了。如果有人借题发挥，说南方发大水，是应了副总理的名字。怎生是好？