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Foshan Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Foshan, China
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Fame and Fortune in Foshan
This is a top pick! Day One in Foshan, China "China is famous for - people," our director states with a giggle. Dan and I are goggle-eyed, staring out the side windows of the school van at our new home and trying to maintain a conversation with our new coworkers at ...
Happy Christmas, Mouse
This is a top pick! ... a little let down when it came time for New Year's Eve, and, while we did enjoy a party at Sarah's apartment in Foshan, there wasn't any fake snow, masks, or even sparklers. After Christmas and New Years, the western world settles down ...
Happy Birthday China
This is a top pick! ... lessons now, and can actually order in a restaurant, provided we know what kind of food we want. Most restaurants here in Foshan have their picture-less menus written entirely in Chinese characters and so we're only able to recognize basics, like the ...
Can't Cheat the Chinese
This is a top pick! ... bargaining-for these shoes or another pair. If I do like them, I know she's willing to bargain a little more. Negotiation in China is done with reserved smiles and minimal histrionics. In Egypt, I was often on the verge of the giggles when a seller ...
Rollercoasters and Plastic Wrap
This is a top pick! ... anyway, Dan, Adam, Loman and I also went on the water park rides fully clothed and then sat, drenched, all the way back to Foshan in the taxi. We gathered at our local restaurant once back and ordered a steaming pot of dog meat, (yes, you read that ...
Bye, Lisa!
This is a top pick! ... win the javelin toss in the 2008 Olympics." (Won ton, by the way, is not a Chinese word. If you want won ton soup, ubiquitous in Foshan, you must ask for yun tun (yoon twoon) and must not append the word for soup, tang.) Another tactic we've tried at ...
Turtle Soup, Dog Ribs and Mooncakes for Dessert
This is a top pick! ... , frogs, snails, pigeons, horse, moose, bear, as well as some mystery meats (like McDonald's, Dan says). Since moving to Foshan, we've had donkey, fish head soup complete with floating eyes, toad, pea-flavored ice cream, snouts and entrails of some ...
Chinese Checkers
This is a top pick! ... you can feed goldfish, or rent boats. Or amusement park rides and mini-zoos housing unhappy animals. One park in the Nanhai suburb of Foshan has a luge-you sit on a shiny tray with a break handle between your legs, and it pulls you up a hill and then ...
Wie alles begann.
... , weiter und meine Chinaverbindung wurde tiefer, tiefer, tiefer. Es ist wirklich eine Reihe von Zufällen zu verdanken, dass China zu mehr wurde, als einfach ein Land. Der Service von Kitty ist sehr effizient. Wir arbeiten mittlerweile 3 Jahre zusammen, ...
All Will Salute Me
... . You have to party pretty hard to break a toilet. We ended our visit to Guangdong Province with day trips to Foshan, Paul's Dad's birthplace, and Guangzhou for a day of shopping at the counterfeit market-everything's fake, down to the replica branded ...
Guangzhou
... see were shops after shops selling only jade jewelries. The most popular merchandise is textile. Gone were the days where everyone in China wore the same dull peasant clothes. You will find all sorts of varieties here. It is not uncommon to see ladies ...
Home of the dragon dancers
... to wait for a call on his mobile phone to come and collect us. Yes! He really thought he'd get a signal... Foshan's historical past, present and future apparently includes a massive trade in ceramic models. We were toured one of the major ...
You know you're in Guangdong when...
... stars of the Chinese Communist Party are omnipotently looking down on you; This isn't it all, and could probably be many other places to so many other people. But for me, these are the sounds and sights that are synonymous with life in Southern ...
Foshan
My aunt's family took me to Foshan to see China's famous folk hero, Huang Fei Hong. Those of us who watched many late night Kung Fu movies would probably find his name familiar. His heroic deeds have been immortalized in countless Chinese movies. He was ...
Olympics, Hong Kong and business travels
... shops closed with an official seal. The day after the Olympics I had to get up early for a business trip to Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Foshan. I ended up having to go the last factory again on Saturday but was able to catch the boat to Hong Kong in the ...
The border jump
... the 3rd from that city. So, Hong Kong was due in the 28th. For today, the destination was Yangshuo. But first a night in Foshan. Another city. Stayed in a hotel by the bus stop. Really good looking. Had a "medium" time there. Just wandered around, had ...
A New Contract
... , and had to shower and nap once we got home. Oh yes, that reminds me to mention our current schedule, typical of China: we worked 7 days straight 3/26-4/1, had five days off for Qing Ming Festival, worked another 7 days straight ...
The Nanfeng Ancient Kiln Fires & Foshan City
This is a top pick! ... is so small that you will have no need for a taxi or even a bus adventure. The LP states that Foshan is one of China's oldest Pottery Towns that dates way back to the Han Dynasty (BC221 to 207). It has been known throughout ...
Boring parks and rotating restaurants
Dylan: Today we went to Foshan, where we went to some parks (all pretty boring). We saw some temples but they weren't very good. We went to a rotating restaurant for lunch. Rotating restaurants are the latest gimmick in China. Raymond's Travel ...
12 hours to kill
... drove 15 min. to Nanfeng Ancient Kiln. What Foshan is most famous for in China, and amongst people with interest in China, is pottery. Foshan has been a pottery center since year 600 ac and Nanfeng Ancient Kiln is the oldest in China. Normally you can ...
Wai guo ren (foreigner)
... most people were not willing to do. I said my good byes and I was off. I lived and worked as a foreign language teacher in Foshan city, just south of Guangzhou for a year. The next few blogs will bring you all up to the present. This August I will return ...
Kletterparadies
... em ne Karst Turm u luege de Buure bim Ris pflanze zue. We mir de am chlaettere si, luege sie ues zue. Apropos Touris: in China hei aui am erschte Mai und ir erschte Mai-Wuche Ferie. Es isch totau crazy. Ds Stedtli isch i dere Wuche us aune Naeht ...
Foshan, Guangdong, China
... it was the first time i've experience the country side of China. I noticed how the food and everything was different in there. Foshan is still developing, however the feeling i got was like i was in thailand. I was only here briefly because our main ...
Guangzhou
After 5 months in Hong Kong, it was time to move on. We shipped 80 kg of luggage home, took our backpacks on and took the train to Guanghzou in mainland China. The trip took 2 ...
Ancestor's Temple
Browsing around Wong Fei Hong's museum and visit the most famous Ancestor's Temple in Foshan. The temple covers an area of about 3,500 square meters and has a series of well-built architectural features such as the Wanfu Stage, the Lingying ...
Backpacking is over rated
... bus station at about 6.15am. We were in Guangzhou to visit my Dads cousin Richard, who has been working out in china for a few years. He was in Foshan which is another city about 45mins from Guangzhou, and hed told us that hed send a car to collect us at ...
Bruce Lee
... banks of the Pearl River. The temple also holds the Bruce Lee's Memorial House, a tribute to the Kung Fu Superstar who came from Foshan... they're very proud of him here. With the tourist spiel aside, Zu Miao failed to impress. The best bits had to be ...
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