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Shenzhen Restaurant Sanitation
When I first moved to Shenzhen almost a year ago, one of the first thing I adjusted to was the food. It is very well known that different areas of China have vastly different cusine… which means that I wasnt initially used to the soups and the seafood. One of the things I didnt expect [...]
Future China/US Trade War?
There has been an abundant amount of coverage on the possible US sanctions towards Chinese goods if China doesn’t appreciate the yuan at a faster pace than it is doing currently. Paulson: China must implement reforms describes current US Treasury Secretary’s view of what’s going on. Paulson said there is agreement in principle between the [...]
Shenzhen Driver Licenses for Newbies
A lot has been made about the Auto Shanghai 2007. A Shanghai Daily article entitled China shows prowess in clean-fuel vehicles describes the situation: China topped Japan as the world’s second-largest car maker last year, with sales up 25 percent to more than 7.7 million units. Homegrown brands increased their share of the passenger car [...]
CNN Revisiting Chinglish
Bad English. Everyone’s seen it. It’s everywhere. No matter where you go in China, you’ll find signs like these. As a Chinese American, who has been on many trips with other Americans to different tourist places in China, seeing a funny sign is…well, funny. In preparation for the Olympics, the Beijing Government instituted a program [...]
Shenzhen Bar Exclusivity
Last Saturday night Jason and I went out to Richy bar. It is in the Lou Hu district beside the Lushan Hotel, next to Face (another well known bar. ???????Face Cafe?). We had heard some good things about it from our friends, so we wanted to check it out. Typically, Chinese night life starts around [...]
Shenzhen Public Transportation Entertainment (updated)
LCD monitors are everywhere in China. They are in random mom&pop shoe shops in back alleyways… playing music videos and lobbies and elevators constantly showing advertisements of a guy wanting to help me better learn English. I’ve written about the increased use of LCD monitors in Shenzhen’s public transportation before with my posts Cab Advertising [...]
Chinese Hiring @ the Factory
I’ve been working in China for 7 months now. It’s weird how fast the time has flew by. When I arrived at Toy State, I worked with 2 other project engineers, working and maintaining all of our new/old projects. In December, one of those engineers was fired. Within one day of being told that this [...]
Shenzhen Public Transportation Entertainment (updated)
LCD monitors are everywhere in China. They are in random mom&pop shoe shops in back alleyways… playing music videos and lobbies and elevators constantly showing advertisements of a guy wanting to help me better learn English. I’ve written about the increased use of LCD monitors in Shenzhen’s public transportation before with my posts Cab Advertising [...]
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