A face not even a mother could love…

Okay, so that’s not really what’s going on, but the story that prompted this post is lame. I found it on China Daily’s website in the “Odd News” section, and it was taken from the newspaper mentioned in the post title. Here’s the story [...]

My friend who’s also learning Chinese sent me these two videos a few minutes ago, and I thought I’d post links to them here mainly because it’s amazing how much difference it can make when a singer is truly passionate about a song. Now, I’m a big fan of Stefanie Sun (孙燕姿) over [...]

Good night, Mr. Zheng.

People joke a lot about how pretty much everything is made in China, and that used to be an ok thing. But recently the “Made in China” label is starting to carry a pretty scary stigma along with it. The largest pet food recall in United States history [...]

I know it’s weird to have two toilet-related posts so close together. I promise this isn’t going to turn into a toilet-humor site. This story just brought up questions for me.

So according to the article, Chongqing (a city in China) has erected a four-story, 30,000 square-foot, 1,000-toilet bathroom that features Egyptian styling and [...]

I’ve seen a lot of infomercials in my life (miracle bamboo steamer, Ginsu knives, various types of food storage containers, space-saving storage bags…) but never one like this one. It’s kind of like a bidet with a turbo charger in it. Only instead of cleaning off your bottom, it’s designed to clean [...]