In light of the fact that I don’t feel like making fun of the news lately and that most of the China-related news involves more and more product recalls, I thought I’d post something different, the story and meaning behind a Chinese idiom. I’ll probably make it a pretty regular thing.

For the most part, [...]

Just think, you could be eating your Chinese food with these very same chopsticks!

Today’s unsafe export of Chinese goods comes from Beijing, where a factory has been recycling people’s used chopsticks and then reselling them without disinfecting them at all. Yummy. Beijing News says that officials there have seized about 500,000 pairs of [...]

Re-TROS (L to R): Hua Dong guitar/vocals; Liu Min, bass/vocals; and Ma Hui, drums.

It was 5:30AM, and I grumbled to myself as I usually do, irritated about how closely morning follows night five of the days of the week. Every day I’m awakened by one NPR correspondent or another talking about one news item [...]

I was surfing Youtube yesterday and came across a great music video by a Chinese singer named Michael Wong (光良). It’s very sweet in its sentiment, and the song is nice, too, if you like romantic ballads. But about 2:45 into the video, there’s a kissing scene so awkward that it almost made [...]

Ah, yes, the ever-present comb-over. I think in probably every culture in every time period ever, men have employed this tricky little technique to fool other people themselves into thinking that they’re not losing their hair. Most people aren’t so good at it, but one guy in Japan is a master. Check out [...]