Coffee Language is not a new language developed for coffee geeks – although maybe Starbucks should consider a dictionary in their shops. It is the name of a chain of coffee restaurants in China. (A coffee restaurant is what I call a restaurant that serves western style food and different coffees and teas. They are [...]
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I was just checking through my bookmark folder when I came across Photobucket – an image hosting site. I had forgotten that last year I created an account and uploaded some photos. I remembered that I had uploaded them, but then lost track of them. So here they are! These pictures were taken on 1 [...]
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McDonald’s has conquered the world, this we know. There is hardly a spot left on the planet where you can’t find McDs, Starbucks (AKA fourbucks), or Pizza Hut. In China, the McD workers get to wear special McJeans. Do your local McD employees wear them? These photos were difficult to obtain. I don’t know if [...]
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What do I miss the most about China? Possibly, Hot Pot nights!! We had for a while a ritual known as “Family Night” where we would go out to eat Hot Pot in a large group. (Usually the group consisted of the rowdy flight instructors who didn’t have an early flight in the morning.) The [...]
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I’ve been meaning to correct some information that I wrote about the Russian Restaurant ages ago here on the blog. When we first arrived here, I thought that the Russians was run by a Chinese family. They seemed like family. It turns out that they were not a family but a business – a manager [...]
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I’m starting to feel like one of those old Southern men who gets together every morning with the other old men at the Dairy Queen or local coffee shop to talk about the weather… But WOW! Today the weather is so fantastic I have to blog about it. Besides, I have nothing else to blog [...]
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Oh, I completely forgot to tell you about the incredible Chinglish on the menu at the new western Restaurant. It was great! For example: I ordered the Buddhist Ritual Preparation Onion Soup and Curry of the Fried Rice. I can’t remember what DH, T and the others ordered, but theirs were even more absurd. It [...]
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It is a Saturday morning, and inexplicably, I am awake and out of bed at 9AM. For those who know me well, you know how bizarre this is. I think China is making me into a normal adult. Back in Toronto I would regularly sleep until noon without even realizing it. Of course, that probably [...]
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I seem to have a theme going here about meals, so I will tell you about the meal we had tonight at the Russians. By the way, here is a photo of the Russian Restaurant: That is my bike in the picture, the maroon one. The yellow one has long since died. In fact, here [...]
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I know I’ve mentioned this before, but over and over again I am truly astounded by prices here. The DH and I just came from dinner at the Mongols. We had one bowl each of noodles with a delicious soy based sauce and a platter of stewed eggplant with tomatoes and green peppers. It was [...]
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I'm an American expat living on the fringe of Chinese society. Thanks to a lifetime spent moving around, I often feel like an outsider. This blog explores life in Beijing, China, the occasional aviation topic, expat issues, random travel experiences and interesting things I see, read and hear. If you want to know more about my latest hobby, visit Sewing on the Fringe, where I blog about learning to sew in Beijing. And for daily documentation of Beijing's ever changing air quality, visit My Beijing Window. And, yes, I do wear my santa hat year-round. ;)
