I firmly believe that everyone has super powers. Even you. I have two. The first of my incredible edible talents is that my tongue has its own brain. Place me in front of a crowd of evangelicals, and I’ll find myself telling them that I think Harry Potter is stupid because I prefer my fiction …Read More
Usually my posts have a bit of levity, but today I have a more serious cultural question to pose. China is known for its knock-offs. We joke about that long and often. But how is it that world music is not protected? The Chinese have a long history of creating music in a unique style …Read More
The meeting will be held on Monday, when more than 10,000 guests will gather in New York. Tami Joan stared at the billboard – Learnguidepdf black, white and Microsoft 70-480 Practice Test yellow, all smiling and waved. However, this painting seems to be something not quite right. The proportions and color of the Learnguidepdf characters …Read More
George W. Bush earned kudos for speaking Spanish when he ran for president in 2000, and while it turns out his language skills are, at best, “halting to conversational,” having the confidence to use another language on camera in America probably still counts for something. Other heads of state are more legitimately bilingual, and a …Read More
Several times recently I’ve been out at restaurants that I’ve been to frequently, only to discover they’ve been ripping me off for ages. The trick is a smooth one and I can only blame my unfailing trust in humanity for allowing it to happen. The scam? The Laowai Menu. Living in a tourism-supported city like …Read More
Our Photo of the Week comes from Graeme Nicol, a laowai in Dalian who makes fine use of his camera. Graeme easily has some of the most interesting and most original photos I’ve had the pleasure of looking at. Every week we’ll feature a funny, interesting or otherwise noteworthy photo here. If you have a …Read More
i need a loan today The Chinese are marvelous builders. Anyone who has been to China and has witnessed its dynamic physical development cannot help but nod in agreement. The Great Wall, the Shanghai subway network, the Starbucks-in-a-Temple – all prime examples of what the Chinese can accomplish when they put their cute little noses …Read More
It’s times like these that I wish I didn’t live in this backwater hole in Dalian… Actually, I’m sure there’s a way to pay your bills online up here too, but likely just not in English yet. Anyway, all you guys in Shanghai, consider yourself lucky – SHFFT has just created an online bills payment …Read More
What can I really say to this, other than: if necessity is the mother of invention, poverty is her sick and twisted evil half-sister. BEIJING (AFP) – Used condoms are being recycled into hair bands in southern China, threatening to spread sexually-transmittable diseases they were originally meant to prevent, state media reported Tuesday. In the …Read More
He stood there for a long time. Tami Joan and John Testprepwell desperately retreated until they reached the other side of the door, holding two sweaty CBAP test bodies tightly together. The drivers hand Testprepwell bent into the shape of a cup, CBAP test blocking the lights shone on the street light, looked at them …Read More
What is it – to be usurped? It is not to be transferred. Or relocated. Or even neutralized. Actually, I’m not even allowed to use that last one. It’s sole property of the American CIA. Which is then licensed out for the Chinese government’s occasional Falun Gong crackdowns. But to be usurped – driven from …Read More
This week’s Photo of the Week is a photo I’ll often return to should I ever leave this country. There are few images that fill me with (pre-emptive) nostalgia than a happy guy hamming it up for the laowai with a bottle of Er Guo Tou in his hand. The photo is by #johnny5ive. Every …Read More
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