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Songshan: tables built for work

Plugs, hours, and the laptop question, answered by the furniture.

Songshan: tables built for work

Read the room

A room with a long shared table, plugs at both ends, and no music is telling you something. So is a room with nine stools and no surface to put a laptop on.

Songshan has both, which makes it the easiest district to plan a working afternoon in.

In this district the furniture is the policy.

The lunch problem

Between twelve and two the good rooms fill with the office crowd and the policy changes: no laptops, ninety minutes, order something.

Go at ten, leave at twelve, come back at three. The locals do exactly this.

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