While adding new links to My China Start I ran into the Flying chef website.
The Flying Chef is labeled as a Shanghai-based, inexpensive service to book an experienced Chinese chef to cook in your home for private dinners.
I kinda like the concept and it doesn’t seem to cost too much. I’ll try […]
Not my best picture, I know, but I’m always impressed with how they move things here.
Walking in Nanchang Lu we noticed Tailor Chen. A male showed us the fabrics and the price for a pair of pants seemed ok, 550 Rmb.
We were willing to buy and thought we’d try to bargain a bit. Just a little and if they had come up with a good counter offer or even […]
It’s been some time since I put a new picture online of the building activities in my neighbourhood. Back in october 2005 I published the last picture and since then the building is almost finished. Take a look
The next phase will be to tear down the old quarter in front of it. The […]
Ring, Ring.
I pick up the phone, say my name.
Is W. there? I hear a female voice on the other side
No, she isn’t, I answer
Where is she?, is the new question.
And you are?, I ask
Where is she? is the reaction.
Tuut, tuut, is the sound she hears after I hang up.
Over the years my chinese phone […]
Just walked down to go to my neighbourhood cigarettte shop to get a fresh carton of Honghe. Run by a couple that actually genuinly smiles as part of their service I was out of luck today. A small crowd had gathered outside the shop, and the owner was holding probably a thief by his […]
Previously I vented about the unavailibility of decaf coffee in the Shanghai Starbucks. I’m not sure whether it was my post that woke them up (well, I’m pretty sure that it didn’t:) but today a real cup of decaf coffee was available.
I noticed something else as well. Whenever you order a drink, in my […]
A long time ago, I taught a bit of English. Being Dutch and having an accent I’m happy to say there are now 3 Chinese women in Kunming that pronounce words like “Go”, with a hard G. It sounds a bit like Ghhhhrrrooo. It was a short lived career for many reasons.
Having known […]
We bought the movie “The post modern life of my aunt” in the dvd shop around the corner.
The sales lady asked for 13 Renminbi. A bit high but she explained the illegal copies were sold out.
This was the real version, she told us and of course we believed her.
On a side note, the movie […]
Reading classifieds are a great distraction when I’m on the loo, in a taxi or sitting in a Starbucks with nothing else to do.
A selection of the best of the last weeks. It’s easy to make fun of some Chinglish (still fun though) but the International community also adds to my entertainment.
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