Posts Tagged ‘ China ’
10 – a cold day outside Beijing’s beautiful National Center for the Performing Arts, aka ‘The Egg’ 11 – an entire cart-ful of food to be dropped into boiling-hot oil and devoured, at the traditional Chinese hot-pot place Nick and Even took us to 12 – i call this one “Don’t Sh!t Where You Shower (or Brush [ READ MORE ]
1 – Bri plays Godzilla at the Beijing Urban Planning Museum (wrong country, we know) 2 – more jackhammering right outside our door 3 – imagine pooping with the urinals in plain view – South Beauty szechuan restaurant 4 – our first night in China, and Bri’s first foray into couchsurfing.com, we find ourselves on the way outskirts [ READ MORE ]
An extended excerpt from a pretty supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Chinese tv show. [ READ MORE ]
10:15am – desperate for some hot breakfast and a place to thaw, we followed our noses out of the sub-zero cold and into a tiny hole-in-the-wall restaurant on the narrow ‘hutong’ (or ancient alleyway). one of dozens of small businesses without english signage, just one fogged-up door or man-sized plastic-mudflaps entryway after another, as far [ READ MORE ]
Mon – a very emphatic dude on the television set Tues – an odd scene for the sub-zero temps, outside a gallery in the Dashanzi aka 798 Art District, Beijing’s home for progressive visual artists living inside old decommissioned Maoist factories Wed – our friends across the hall at the Saga Youth Hostel Thurs – in a bedroom [ READ MORE ]
Mon – Trip to China: Bri and I had to leave for the airport, but she couldn’t find her keys. which made her very angwy Tues – we encounter some turbulence, and she gets a light-booger Wed – Beijing Capital International Airport has one shiny floor Thurs – New Years’ Eve on a friend’s rooftop with an adorable [ READ MORE ]