This dish consisting primarily of eggs and tomatos can be found on tables accross China. Named “xi hong shi chao ji dan” or “fan qie chao dan”, my friends and I when we first arrived in China simply referred to it as “that egg tomato shit”.
It’s an easy dish to cook and a good complement […]

It never ceases to amaze me what people can get away with in China in terms of service levels and more specifically for the purpose of this post standards of contruction.  I remember when I used to teach in Yantai arriving to my freshly painted classroom to find I couldn’t pug in my laptop let […]

Unfortunatly as we have been experiencing particualry mental weather here on the mainland recently Taiwan was no different. Having packed for warm weather all we got was rain, cold and more rain. Though this didn’t stop us from having a great time and from Natalia showing me much of her great country.

One of the first […]

Well Natalia and I are off to **Cough** Chinese Taipei for Chinese New Year. I look forward to comparing it to my experiences of Mainland China, my brief experience of Hong Kong and blogging it. That reminds me, where’s my camera?

It seems to be the official line in China that the Internet is not so much censored as it is filtered of potentially dangerous or illegal content. For the large majority of Chinese this poses no problems and to an extent is even seen as legitimate and unavoidable. Anyway, the large majority of Chinese enjoy […]