Tag: China

Beijing Best Birthday Dinner: Where to have Birthday Dinner in Beijing

Life

Turning 30 at Mercante and Plans for Sweeping Tombs in North Korea

Beijing, China People keep asking me what it feels like to be 30. It feels like 29, except that no one asks you what it feels like to be...

Travel

Chinese New Year in Chengdu: Ruckus in The Big Empty

Posted from: Chengdu, China The Year of the Snake kicked off this February 10th, sparking widespread depression amongst product designers...

Life

One Pearly Snow Day: Kendra’s Vegetarian & Vegan Survival Guide to Beijing

Posted from: Beijing Before we get around to the veggie walking tour, a breaking news update: Rumor has it there are weasels in the...

Renting a hutong house in Beijing

Life

Home in the Hutongs

Posted from: Beijing, China The twenty-minute tirade of cursing, every filthy syllable of which passed with sparkling clarity through the...

Travel

Two Feet in the the BoHai Sea: A Fall Wedding in Dalian

Posted from: Dalian, China If I’d known that accepting an invitation to a Chinese wedding in another city meant the bride and groom...

Travel

The Great Wall of Corn, Wasps and Possibly Duck Brains

Posted from: Beijing / HuaiRou I have very few written records of my first year here, but I can remember almost every minute, because...

Travel

Dragon Boat Weekend in Gray Shanghai: Girl Talk and a lot About Trains

Posted from: Shanghai For anyone who’s expecting to hear about exciting forays into the highrise mafia dens of Pudong: I was in...

Life

Artsy Weekend Debauchery at 798 and Sexily Inappropriate Machinery

Posted from: Beijing I’d like to be the kind of person who buys art, I really would. Less in a “hmnah, one more Monet and my...

Life

Crackdown Smackdown: Snow White and the Three-Have-Nots

Posted from: Beijing Teh Facebookz blew up a few days ago with the news that the Beijing PSB, in response to a viral video of a British man...

Life

The Beijing Drunken Masters Supper Club: Expedition to Heroic Mountain

Posted from: Beijing It’s not that I don’t like being a vegetarian. It’s just that like most limp-wristed liberals, when...