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... The initial line was up the steps to the second floor. Then I waited on line to get a number to wait on another line to pay. The lines were long, the place was hot, no one was sure we were in the right lines, the process was absurd. Is that back to normal???
This is excellent preparation for the normality that awaits you when you actually get to China. Except, the notion of "queueing" is itself a flexible concept.
