Tagged: China

{travelogue} Street Eats and Spicy Stuff; Crickets and Craft Beer: A Second Time Around in Shanghai

I recently went back to what I think might be my #1 favorite Chinese city: Shanghai. I have met so many Westerners who tell me they don’t like Shanghai, but I think the problem...

{wtf airlines?} China Southern Air FAQs

I was trying to book some intra-China flights on the web and found a lot of pitfalls and language barriers. For example, I happened upon this page entitled “Common Questions” on the China Southern...

{engrish} Lost In Translation: Signs in China

I saw some really great signage in China that made me laugh and sometimes made me feel perplexed and I liked them all a lot. Here are my favorites! This is from a menu...

{ligers} Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin, China

I was never really truly sure that ligers were real- it seemed like the kind of thing that gullible me would believe in and then later learn I had been hoodwinked and feel stupid...