Toilet Culture of China

Today we will look into something different than my normal posts. The "toilet culture" of China is quite interesting. Most places we have been to have maybe one western toilet (as in a seat). all other stalls have only a porcelain hole in the ground. Great fun is to be had if you need to go and all you find is a squater. Plus it seems that no toilets ever have toilet paper. which means you have to bring your own. What fun!

This of course leads to many questions. Does everyone in china bring toilet paper with them at all time? If not, what do they do when they need to go? Do they wipe their butts after they go publicly? Is the person next to me have crusty crap in their bum? Do they wipe them selves at all? Does that mean when it's warm and everyone is sweating, does the whole city smell like crap?

As you can see, many questions arise once you start thinking about it. Then comes the worse thought of them all (thanks James for making me realise it). Everyone you meet in China you think is hot, most likely squats, has crap in their bums (mostly bad news for James HAHA) and if we get up in a good sweat it's going to smell! Yay for poopy pants!

Luckily most people flush (but not everyone). My worst experience was in konming at their bus station:

Many stalls (good), none of the doors lock (bad), It smells a bit and none of the stalls are clean (worse), Finally brave it and take a dump in the last stall (good), next door stall flushes and shit water starts flooding into my stall (FUCKITY FUCK FUCK, MAYDAY MAYDAY, GET THE FUCK OUT!). Only thought then was just to get the fuck out and not touch the oncoming shit flood that has appeared. Luckily the shit flood went into my hole so the whole ground wasn't covered and I could escape unscathed. So yeah, toilets in china are an experience in themselves.

Later everyone!