I’m discovering that apparently, Feng is somehow related to half of China’s population.
On our last day in Changsha, Feng and I decided to try stinky tofu, a kind of fermented aged tofu that… well, stinks.
Google is blocked in China, but I guess the local automatic translation service is as bad as Google Translation!
I don’t usually give directions in Chinese, but I knew the way. Poor guy, stumbling upon the only Westerner in Wuhan!
Do you remember the first time you met your significant other’s family? Come on, I’m sure you do. Everybody does.
Compared to the slow train, the high-speed train is remarkably clean. It reminded me of the French TGV.
Beijing is huge and very spread out, much like most North American cities. Getting from point A to point B isn’t always easy: it’s hot and the streets are jam-packed.
So we walked along Fuchengmen. “I remember these buildings,” I said. “And this is definitely the small hutong close to the campus,” added Feng.
Does one of your enemies hate kids, animals and crowded places? Buy them a ticket to the Beijing Zoo!
People are looking at me, looking at you, then looking at Mark, then realizing that he is the result of a Chinese-and-French-having-sex experiment.
Keeping Mark (and my in-laws) busy and happy added a new dimension to hell, and we were going to be stuck above ground for 14 hours.
“I was wondering whether meeting your relatives in China would be a nine or a ten on the awkwardness scale. I think it’d be a then. Yes, definitely a ten.”
So, Yéyé, Nǎinai and daddy are Chinese. Well, you too, obviously. And guess what—we are going to China! Far far from Canada.
To finish this Beijing 2008 series, I'd like to give you a few tips for your next trip to China's capital.
Once you enter the underground Silk Market at the Yonganli subway station, some 1,700 retail vendors and over 3,000 salespeople are waiting for you, the 白鬼子 (our nickname, we are the "white ghosts")...
Between 10pm and 5am, the city is alive and thriving. Night markets, busy streets, lights everywhere -- life doesn't stop in Beijing.