Here we are at the Mao Restaurant – a restaurant that serves all the chairman’s favorite dishes. It is fabulous and one of my favorite places to eat! See more Wordless Wednesday here.
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We had our Christmas dinner at the Muslim Meat Place. Above you see DH with his leg of lamb. I’d like to think we had a multi-cultural celebration, since Eid Al-Adha is also taking place at this time, and we did choose to eat in a Muslim restaurant. Eid Al-Adha is the Islamic festival of [...]
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Christmas is a low-key holiday for the DH and I, it always has been. We tend to observe both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day quietly without much fanfare. DH is from Spain and in Spain, Christmas Eve is the time for celebrating. Christmas Eve in Spain is spent over a big dinner, usually made up [...]
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We all know that learning Chinese is difficult. Learning written Chinese at times seems nearly impossible. Still, I’ve managed to memorize a few characters here and there, not enough to help me read properly, though. So what happens when you go to a shop or a restaurant that you really like? How do you know [...]
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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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