Suzhou’s first Subway opened this week at the neibourhood centre on Xian Dai Da Dao, next door to Starbucks. (158 Xian Dai Avenue)
Expect teething problems though, while I was there today the staff was still serving raw bacon in their subs.. still I’m over the moon since now can grab a semi decent sandwich in [...]
Tea Eggs are a great snack. IThe 7-Eleven chain in Taiwan reportedly sells an average of 40 million tea eggs per year. (source: wikipedia)
Admittedly I sadly have never eaten a tea egg of the street, only served in rice bowls or with noodles. Distrust of bubblng egg stews aside, I’ve aways loved hard boliled eggs, [...]
Today I broke a cardinal rule of bacon.
Having braved Suzhou’s torrential rain I returned home to change our of my then sopping suit, when I had the sudden and familiar pangs of bacon craving. Bacon hasn’t always been so easy to come by in China. When I first moved over here in 2005, bacon, as [...]
BBC: A committee official said the simple chants and gestures were designed to help spectators cheer for their favourite athletes in a smooth, civilized manner.
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Li Ning, president of the Beijing Etiquette Institute, told the Beijing News that the cheer was in line with general international principles for cheering, while at the same time possessing characteristics [...]
Tonight I cooked hot and sour soup. Vodka in hand a lighter note than my usual whiskey I hit the flavours on the proverbial head. Natalia drank it up.
We usually watch TV on DVD in the evenings, brought from the local dodgy neibourhood DVD shop. Tonight it was NCIS, a navy, CSI, crime hybrid. It’s [...]
