This boy seemed calmly abandoned.

This “New Town Plaza” mall was the size of a small city.  The map even indicated a Ben & Jerry’s store (!) somewhere on the distant end of its vast reaches, but when the alternatives were, “The journey will be long and perilous; only some of you will make it back alive…” and, “Look, there’s a Häagen-Dazs right here!” — we settled for the Häagen-Dazs.

I twice saw one woman wearing what looked like a Wendy’s (like the fast-food chain) t-shirt, but with some weird changes to the logo that made me wonder if the Chinese characters said something else.  Someone had chopped off Wendy’s pigtails!  Not cool, someone, not cool.  Unfortunately, I missed the picture both times.