_{There was an immense variety of ceramics and terra cotta pots for plants, at extreme low prices. But also some shops with very rare hand-painted ceramics. In one shop with an amazing large beautiful Rock full with fossils, was a man doing handicraft. I wonder what is was and then saw it is a special box for a Grasshopper. This is high fashion and big business. They built the box with a special wire on top, which intensifies the sound of the Grasshopper and it is music in the airs… a new toy. And they are also sold as fighters, the males only individual kept. Actually I found out later it is big business in China today. Man have their special fighting Grasshoppers and they go to large extent of betting, each Discus breeder I visited had many Grasshoppers…} 

_{On the flower market there were all kinds of very nicely cultivated plants, even many kinds of South American bromeliads, rare (and red) cactus as well as the carnivorous Nepenthas.}

_{Nice rocks with tiny villages and bridges built into it and waterfalls, as well as fish-fountains.}

_{At the end of the Flower and plant section were the ornamental fish section started, was one very large aquarium shop, Cheng Mao. I was astonished with their quality of plants, fishes and the aquascape or only just nicely planted aquariums. They had also different models of Nan-aquariums and gave to fishes their correct decoration, as in nature, like for these Loricariids (lower right). Not many aquarium shops like this in Europe to be found…}

_{Behind the large store was the street with hundreds of smaller aquarium shops and open market for Goldfish and Koi, for feeds and supplies.}

_{Some sold plastic plants, but the majority had beautiful planted aquariums and with really incredible beautiful submersed plants – and rare ones.}

_{The aquarium plants were sold from these beautiful set-up aquariums, rarely outside from trays. And one can buy the underwater grass mats just like it is done for the lawn…}

_{There were exclusive Discus shops (upper) and the majority are red, white or blue. Although there is a Symphysodon discus on the door painted no wild discus can be seen anywhere.}

_{Almost every shop is specialized in a particular variety of aquarium fishes and this one had only Flower horn cichlids. The upper one sold for 2000 USD, the lower one for 1200 USD.}

_{This shop was specialized in pearl-scale albino angelfishes with a striking red head and all the way to the dorsal fin...}

_{…another one was specialized in imports and rare fishes, like Monodactylus sebae (upper left), Badis badis (upper right),  beautiful red-eyed Hemigrammus pulcher and a Nemachelid I had never seen before, from southern China.}