happy tiger year!
Grrrr….
February 2010
food fun II
OK, guess what this is: above: a tea egg chick fetus, a Hangzhou delicacy. Yes, the chickie fetus gets eaten with the rest of the egg. Beak optional. (Is this vegetarian or poultry? Hmmm…) below: Bruce Lee has a fast food chain in China! (Boy, is he turning in his grave?) My cousin says that …
Shanghai’ed: favorites
Here are some of my favorite images from roaming around Shanghai: above: in an alleyway of the painfully hip commercial art area called the Taiking Road Art Centre above: the view of Pudong River from my hotel room. Yes folks: that’s SMOG. above: one of the many the Mao Tse-Tung tribute sections of the Shanghai …
the cake that fell from the sky
Above: China is the proud home of the world’s fastest train, which I took from Beijing to Shanghai, a 9 hour trip. “the cake that fell from the sky and landed in my lap” My China Pangaea colleague Thomas uses this saying when something awesome unexpectedly happens. After working 150 hours in the last 10 …
food fun
Chongqing’s hot pots are famous for being “han la!!!” (very very verrrrry spicy). Not being brave enough to go ALL RED, I decided to do it socialist democratic style and get the yin-yang half-and-half, with one side spicy and the other not. I dunked probably a pound of mushrooms into this pot… quite lovely. And …
this is what liberation looks like
The Liberation Monument in Chongqing stand in a city center square with a Rolex clock at the top and surrounded by massive multi-level shopping centers and street vendors. Somehow in China, the free-for-all-capitalist market coexists with so-called communist propaganda… and nobody seems to bat an eyelash at the irony. Kunming is one of the most …
one foot in the future and a butt stuck in the past
This is the beautiful, well-resourced AIDS Care Center for Yunnan Province, which has 230 AIDS ward hospital beds and HIV viral load and genotype capability. The clinicians here are older, experienced and well-trained. They are supposed to provide support to all the HIV/AIDS care sites in Yunnan province. It’s a castle on a mountain. They …
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fun with Chinglish
This is the tea that shouts in the morning, “Boy Sophy, you look terrible today!” For China’s new super-rich class: Just in case it’s not enough that you’re a top manager, you can also be first-class. If that’s still not enough, let’s be clear that it’s only for the few. Gotta keep out those commoners!