When I first saw Ronaldo holding a lozenge and stupidly grinning on Chinese TV I was wondering who the hell the director director was that made this terrible excuse for an advertisement. Then again, I see similar bad advertisements on CCTV 9 so not that surprised actually.
I got used to it and figured that […]

Just published a new interview on MyChinaStart.
This time I chatted with RoyGraff from Ccontact about the Outbound Travel Industry.
He talks about Chinese tourists, the challenges for Western tour operators and more.
If you’re interested to learn more, read the China Travel Blog interview.

Our old fitness centre, Total Fitness on Nanjing Xi Lu, was not bad at the beginning. Sure, they had problems with the volume of the music and I had to get used to men drying their scrotum with a hair dryer, but getting past that, it was ok. That’s Shanghai fitness, I gathered.
A year […]

Pandas are one of China’s hot commodities.
Doing a search showed me that there is a connection between Pandas and diseases, at least according to Google.

It isn’t any news that the Internet in China is still slow and it bugs a lot of people I noticed .
My previous article about the slow speed of the Internet gets a lot of visitors searching for terms related to the incompetent structure of the Internet in China.
People ask the search engines:
“Why is […]

Looking out of the window of the bus I noticed there are many satellite dishes attached to the balconies of the big buildings.
In Holland satellite dishes mostly imply that it’s an apartment occupied by immigrants who like to watch tv in their native language.
In Shanghai, I have the feeling, it means seeing […]

You can find now an English Zoomable map of Beijing on the website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
It’s pretty nice and detailed with main roads, the Olympic locations and other landmarks.
You have the option to download a screenshot of the map (a your zoom level) and I liked the option to draw lines […]