Enjoy Cafe
July 19, 2018
I didn’t go inside this cafe, since I passed it at a time of day that was too late for coffee and too early for wine. But the iconography intrigued me. The name of the cafe, “Enjoy,” seemed unrelated to the warlike figures wheatpasted on its walls. And the imperialistic Napoleon seems an odd companion for Che Guevara. While El Che has served as a icon for leftists in the west since his own lifetime, I suppose that in China, Napoleon would be the more radical, potentially offensive character. I’d love to know the thinking behind the decor of this courtyard. I hope there’s more to it than “Western stuff.” But either way, I enjoy the mystery of this cafe.