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Posts Tagged ‘shanghai’
A rude awakening
It started at 630 am.
on a Sunday.
The Fat Olive
Review of the Fat Olive restaurant in Shanghai, China.
Moving mountains by bike
Snapped from a taxi near Jing’an temple. Not a rare sight here…well, this pile was bigger than usual. Much much bigger.
I think this trike’s loaded with fish crates. I’m guessing they’re empty now and she’s on her way to recycle them. Peggy Liu from JUCCCE told me that China has 1/4th the consumption per capita [...]
Kissho of Tokyo: how not to eat
We’ve managed to eat at every restaurant at the city shop complex on Tianyaqiao Lu and Xingeng Lu, except the Applebees, Babydoll–a restaurant apparently geared specifically for Girls’ Night Out–and Kissho of Tokyo.
Here are some tips, from me to you, to help you learn how to avoid the landmines of surprise and dissappointment you may [...]
Tales of woe from the backseat
We are two of the few people who move into an unfurnished apartment in China. The housing system works such that every building is a condoplex, and slumlords buy up apartments and rent them, furnished, to the plebes, for massive profit. This system has it’s benefits–no one really loses money when the system demands [...]