Category: China Crack
China: The Shanghai Insect Market
Shanghai is a city of immense contrast and you don’t have to go much farther than the Bund area to see the most vivid of those contrasts. Here the wide and powerful Hangpu River separates the old colonial part of Shanghai from it’s brash new counterpart Pudong. But if you wander around Shanghai you will [...]
Traveling in China – Don’s Handy Hints…
I was recently back in China for 3 weeks, about 1.5 years after living there for nearly two years – it really is an interesting place, full of contradictions and very much a puzzle wrapped in an enigma. It’s basically a huge “parallel universe” of 1.3 billion where there are many superficial indications of western [...]
What’s this dish again?
When I first came to China on business about 6 years ago, like most first-timers, I was somewhat startled by what is eaten by the Chinese…. it seemed that anything & everything could go into the enormous variety of food dishes available here. I later learned that there is a local saying that the Chinese eat anything with legs [...]
Getting a haircut – the sequel!
Well, as promised here is the long awaited sequel to “the haircut”… Today I ventured back to my “local” shops and my trusty barber Mr. Liu, as usual we conversed by sign language, but being the consumate professional he is this was no barrier to Mr. Liu’s tonsorial efforts and I emerged from his chair [...]
Getting a haircut…
The relative difficulty of being a foreigner in Shanghai is personified for me by the relatively simple task of getting a haircut. In Sydney, where my home is, a haircut is a pleasant experience that I usually indulge in about every two weeks with a short walk up to the shops on Johnson Street, in [...]
A Long First Week
It’s now the middle of October 2008 and I have been based here in Shanghai since March and has took me this long to complete the entry I started the first week I arrived…. My name is Don Silcock and I am on a special assignment in China for about a year. I was full [...]
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