Day 3: New friends, getting to know the neighborhood

The Chinese are very similar to American bookstore junkies: quiet, shuffling through book after book, sitting around and reading for a while. I browsed there for a long time, picking up books and trying to read the titles and the first few ... I am thinking of trying to buy a Mahjong (ma jiang) set and trying to get a game going with some people at the hotel as a way of meeting them. I'm not sure if many people are staying here for a long time though, not as long as me, ...