Accidents waiting to happen

As if the traffic in Chinese cities wasn’t dangerous enough, Research In Motion (RIM) has won an eight year battle to be able to sell their BlackBerry devices in China. If you don’t have one of these, you won’t understand, but if you do have one, you’ll understand why people call [...]

Tens of millions served

How’s “In the name of Chairman Mao we promise all dishes on the menu are half-price” for an advertising slogan? That’s what a poster hanging outside of a Nanjing restaurant says, along side it the image of Chairman Mao himself. Apparently, people so worshiped Mao back in the day that people would [...]

I can’t believe we’re exporting this garbage to other countries.

I came across a video on YouTube earlier that really grates on my nerves. It’s Avril Lavigne trying to sing her song “Girlfriend” in Chinese, and it’s bad. Really bad. Her accent is kind of almost good, but at the same time still [...]

“Where have you been, dear?”

It’s an age-old conflict between married men and their wives. Guys want more independence from their wives, time to hang out with their buddies and do “guy stuff”, and women want more attention from their husbands, a sympathetic ear and maybe some spooning. But, like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it [...]

Tasty and good for you

Westerners may laugh at the thought of sticking needles in somebody to help treat illness; they may scoff at the idea of natural herbal treatments for diseases; they may even use a toilet that you sit on rather than squatting over (admittedly, I hate the squat type toilets…it’s too much like [...]