Or so this survey says. The Wall Street Journal reports: [China] ranked No. 1 overall among 37 countries as a destination for expats in an HSBC Holdings PLC survey released earlier this week, edging out Germany, Singapore and the Cayman Islands. Its surveys ranked China No. 2 out of 37 countries in terms of beneficial […]
I went to Elements, a club on the west side of the Worker’s Stadium (where all the clubs are), on Friday night. A friend wanted to see Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas, who was doing a DJ gig there. I had never heard of him, but clubbing after a long six-day week sounded fun. […]
We got a day off for Mid-Autumn Festival, and as usual, the holiday was combined with the closest weekend so that workers would get three days off in a row (only to have to work for the next six). I took advantage of the extra day to try my hand at making ice cream sandwiches, […]
There’s something I never thought I’d say. I don’t have anything against the country, but unlike a lot of Chinese and Chinese-Americans, I never got into Korean food, Korean supermarkets, Korean films and TV shows, Korean cosmetics, or any of the countless other manifestations of Korean culture. I never wanted to study the language, and […]
This past weekend, I made the trek all the way to Tongzhou, an eastern Beijing suburb about an hour outside the city center. A few friends and I were getting together at one of their apartments. The weather was pretty dreary all day, with overcast skies, and everything was all damp. But it was good […]
On one of my first weekends in Beijing, I was invited to go out to Sanlitun by someone else who was also new to the city. It was the first time I had heard about it, and needless to say, he gave me shitty directions: “It’s near the [subway] stop either before or either the […]
I wrote most of this post while I was in the U.S., waiting for my new visa. While I had an idea of what I wanted to say, it took a lot of reorganization and editing so that it wouldn’t just be rambling. It still is mostly rambling, but if my dad can read it, […]
What a month. It started off with a friend’s wedding, then quickly followed with visits from friends and relatives, an excursion out west, and finally an impromptu — but welcomed — visa run to the U.S. (while friends and relatives were still visiting.) With that said, this post is simply a placeholder of sorts for […]
I hadn’t planned on making so much stuff over the weekend, but once I get started cooking and making, it’s kind of hard to stop. The start was breakfast. I thought about making the usual scrambled eggs and toast English muffin, but why take the easy way out? The week before, I had caved in […]
You know how when something goes wrong, something else also goes wrong? And something else goes wrong? And then before you know it, everything is basically wrong? In China, this rule of life manifests itself as a string of breakdowns. Something breaks or stops working or your landlord raises your rent, forcing you to find […]