First Impressions
Before I moved to Shijiazhuang for my first experience living and working in China, I looked the city up in a certain popular China guidebook, which told me the only things I had to look foward to there were factories and pollution. It told me there was nothing of cultural significance there, no history. Still, I’d never been to China before and thought it’d probably be fine.
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Posted in Travel around China.
Tagged with Beijing, China, food, guide, living, shanghai, tour.
By Steve
– June 9, 2010
The fact that we had missed the last turn was not surprising and proved to be an advantage. With no obvious road signs since we turned off five kilometers back it was not hard to miss – just a simple fork in the road, with one staying high and the other dropping into the valley floor. From the high road we now had a slightly obstructed bird’s eye view of the 800 year old stone bridge spanning the small boulder filled river below. The new village, all soul less red brick and concrete boxes side by side straddling the high road is not a pretty sight. I peek into the valley but there is still no sign of the old village, only bamboo and bananas growing on the slopes above some small ploughed fields.
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Tagged with food, local, tour, traffic, travel.
By Steve
– June 6, 2010
Something exciting is brewing at the Zhuhai - Macau border.
Indigenous ladies, in their 40s to 50s, are lugging trolley loads of boxed food items from Macau to Zhuhai China. Items such as Kellogg’s cornflakes, Red Bull and Quaker Oats are popular picks. It looks as if they had just raided a convenience store in Macau and are making their way back to the mainland.
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Tagged with Beijing, China, food, local.
By Steve
– May 31, 2010
1. That famous Xiao Long Bao restaurant in Yuyuan is a rip-off. For 50 yuan (minimum of 25 yuan per person) you are served a medley of 8 items mostly deep fried carbohydrates plus cup soup and bite-site fruit in season. Certainly, the only thing I can say about it, they have invested heavily in public relations/ promotions. Here is my choice: FOR ONLY 7 YUAN enjoy 12 PCS OF EXTRA SOUPY XIAO LONG BAO, go to 271 Beihai Rd. just across the People’s Shopping Mall in Shanghai Huangpu district.
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Tagged with food, living, shanghai, tour, travel.
By Steve
– May 31, 2010
Weixin Middle School’s 60th Anniversary
An English speech contest was held in Weixin (ZhaoTong District), Yunnan Province, China on June 15th. Under mostly cloudy skies, the best speakers from 2 levels of the local Middle School and 3 levels from the High School announced their “Love of our Mother School, aspiration for being outstanding”. Seven judges (of which the author was one) sat in the front row of the renovated playground behind Weixin #1 High School. Many students, faculty members and parents were on hand to watch these young Chinese students present a public speech in the open air, using only the english language.
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Posted in Travel around China.
Tagged with China, life, living, local.
By Steve
– May 31, 2010
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