May 2010

fast food takes over China

Hallelujah, my diarrhea has run out of steam! Back to eating all sorts of funky things… I am trying out this new way of posting to my blog via email… This helps me bypass the web restrictions while I am traveling in China, and allows me to post on the go from my iPhone. Boy, …

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when you’re sliding into home, and your pants are full of foam…

…diarrhea, diarrhea! I have been battling some serious loose stool and bad gas cramps for the last 3 days nicely summarized by this version of the diarrhea song:“When you’re walking like CP3Oand your crap looks like radicchioDiarrhea, Diarrhea” I should have known that eating 3 yuan (that’s 40 US cents a bowl) street food throughout …

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hooray! i’m blogging in China!

I made it to Kunming! As you can see in the photo above, Kunming is a large urban center with loads of people and concrete. If you squint through the smog, you can see some mountains in the background. I’m hoping to get to one of those hills this weekend. It’s May Day (International Labour …

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