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A Canadian in Beijing: Vegan Mandarin Language Survival Guide {Gadling}
Jun 28th 2007 12:09AM Ember!
Good to hear that you have put on weight and conquered the vegan thing. The phrases all look very useful, would have been great to guide to pass my sister.
So you are going to leave this great country without having had any of that fatty fatty meat stuff? Such a pity.
Enjoy your last days, and keep your plans open for a return, once you get here you can't stop but come back again (and again!)
take care,
jeni
A Canadian in Beijing: Hot Shots, Hot Pots & Distant Thoughts {Gadling}
May 17th 2007 5:42AM Yum, I love hot pot! Great you could take your cousins somewhere to show off your new hometown.
I guess it's not so difficult to be a vegan in China after all.
Still, there's plenty of opportunity to try the fatty fatty pork later on when you change your mind Ember :)
My sister is arriving Sunday, and she's a vegie too... I'll let you know if I manage to tempt her to the tasty side.
A Canadian in Beijing: My First Farewell {Gadling}
May 11th 2007 5:56AM I miss Sarah too!
But she'll be back... I think everyone comes back to China, it's just that kind of place. You have plans too, right? I'm on my fourth visit, and my sister just booked in for her third, yay!
I'm glad that Sarah's things have found a welcome home with you. The mat looks cute in your room. Think I need to find someone willing for "stuff" in Shanghai come July as well - any takers?
As to making friends, that's the exciting bit cause some of the filtering has been done for you already - I've found most people you find outside their own countries are more adventurous, curious and open minded... just the kind that make lovely fun friends!
A Canadian in Beijing: Suzhou's Hidden Gardens {Gadling}
May 5th 2007 3:29AM I remember that pagoda, glad you didn't pay to go inside. The outside is far more interesting. Too bad that you missed out on the gardens, but they've been there for a few hundred years, and I imagine they'll be there for a few more.
Still it looks like you had an interesting time in Suzhou, even at the train station. I can remember being there waiting for a train, with two other girls, and like you the only foreigners in the crowd. We had been playing cards, waiting for the train for quite some time in the big waiting room, sitting on newspaper on the ground like so many other groups around us. At some point, one of my friends asked us in all honesty "do you think they can tell we are not Chinese?"
Obviously we had been in China for too long by this stage :p
Good luck being Chinese in Beijing xxxx.
A Canadian In Beijing: Steamy Bathhouse in Shanghai {Gadling}
May 2nd 2007 8:59AM Hi Ember, hope you made it back to Beijing ok?!
This is a great write-up of Xiao Nan Guo. When I first came to Shanghai it was really hard to find out any information about this kind of Korean / Japanese bath-house. My friend Hollie introduced me, and clearly I love it. Almost as good as some I've been to in Korea.
Just to clear things up, there are a lot of saunas in China offering the "extra" services that you are talking about. This is not one of them.
And the time that I stayed overnight was in my second week in China, when I locked myself out of my lovely housemate-less apartment, with my mobile out of battery and not a single phone number for anyone in Shanghai on me... But that's another story :p
