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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 […]

I cooked this tonight, not from recipe but fro how I remembered it from restaurants I’ve ordered it from. Natalia gave it the thumbs up.
Ingredients:

1 Tbsp minced garlic
1 Tbsp minced ginger
2-3 red chilis, chopped, with seeds
Chopped spring onions
1 large rpe tomato, diced
1.5 cups of chicken broth
1/2 cup of Chinese brown vinegar
1/3 cup light soy sauce
1 […]