Jin Yuan Shijiazhuang
No.3 Zhonghua North Street, Qiaoxi District Shijiazhuang, Hebei, 050000, China
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Beijing!
... to test if they were real.
We ended up buying quite a bit from Ms Song and, although she complained we were putting her out of business with our low offers, I'd say she was drinking champagne later that night.
The market consisted of many floors so there was a natural gravitation of three girls to the handbags, all 'designer' and all cheap as chips. As soon as we launched into even the most basic of Chinese the prices plunged dramatically. Every stall had a calculator, ...
Winter Kicks In
... leave the house without a hat. No chance.
In other news, I'm getting a new house mate! Apparently she's a Chinese girl who'll be working for the company and living in the final spare room available in the apartment so hopefully we'll all get along.
Oh! And I finally captured a video of the dancing waiters from ground view. Quite a crowd had gathered so I didn't feel so bad taking a sneaky film for you to enjoy.
Now, to begin hibernation...
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My First Day of School
... Saturday and then half or most of Sunday. They sleep the rest of the time. They all have things they like doing but don't have the time to do them as so much pressure is placed on them to keep their heads in the books! I was hoping I could make a bit of a difference somehow in China - perhaps giving these guys a break of an hour and a half, once a week, to just talk about whatever they feel like might make some difference in their lives. It'll be in English though.
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Strikes, Spares and Gutterballs
It only took two weeks of bugging Michael and over one hour driving around searching for a bowling alley, but we succeded and were finally able to test our bowling skills last night. I'm not a great bowler. In fact, I'm not good at all, but I wanted to do something familiar. I usually do pretty well on the first round. You would think that the more I practice, the better I would get, but that's not the case. Maybe ...
Special Feature: Essen 2
... gefunden: grüne gebratene (oder gar frittierte?) Bohnen mit Chili, Szechuanpfeffer und Salz (dou jia gan bian). Der Szechuanpfeffer macht, das einem der Mund taub wird. Einfaches Gericht, mein absoluter Favorit. Von was ich auch nie genug kriegen kann: Ma la xiang guo. Man wählt verschiedene Zutaten aus, Gemüse und/oder Fleisch die dann rührgebraten und in einem grossen Topf serviert auf den Tisch kommen. Auch hier mit genügend Chili ...



