Hai Qing Morning Paper. Although newspapers weren't as popular anymore, there were still many people reading the free papers on the buses and subways to pass their boring transit time.
In today's paper, a piece of news attracted many people's attention.
"Gu Wu Street – a goldfish store selling small goldfish for two thousand RMB? Sky High Price?"
The title grabbed many people's attention, and the content made them angry.
"The sky-high price shrimp incident in Shang Dao is infamous now. A thirty eight RMB shrimp dish transformed into thirty eight RMB per shrimp, and as soon as the news spread, the discussion was intense. Even though the shop owner was fined ninety thousand RMB, the reputation of the city didn't recover. Comedians made all kind of jokes of Shang Dao and of seafood in general. Without exaggeration, in just one night, the sky-high incident embarrassed Shang Dao and damaged the hospitable reputation that the city developed after hundreds of millions RMB of spending.