Apart from the lack of shops, there are signs that Cuba isn’t the most affluent nation:
- The restaurant in Chinatown churns out the best cream caramel in cut-off cola cans.
- The restaurant has cut your paper napkin for use by two diners.
- Car like the 1955 Bel Air still cruise the streets.
- B&W TVs still grace the living room of some people … but some others have modest flat-screen LCDs.
- There are shops with dimly-lit desks where people bring in their stuff for repair (eg. rice cookers).
- Many families are crammed into a two-storey home in the city.
Signs (or otherwise) of the US trade embargo:
- You never know where your next Coca-Cola is coming from. Some are made in Mexico, others in China.
- But ketchup, mustard, jam sometimes are from the USA!! But other times from Spain or Latin America.
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- Peso shop, recognisable by queues.
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- Peso shop, recognisable by empty shelves.
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- Peso shop, recognisable by empty shelves.
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- Old motorbike.
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- Hot pinkie.
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- Bevy of old beauties.
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- Zooming in on the old beauties.
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- Old Havana.
