I know what you are thinking: Not another article about New Year’s resolutions, red lines, goals, targets and achievements. It is four days into 2015, and the internet sphere is swarming with posts about all our good intentions, goals and …
The past few months have been very difficult. Now that there are just a few more hours left of 2014, it got me thinking: Was this year really so bad? Is this feeling of failure and having not achieved what …
Cute Panda Cookies 超可爱的熊猫饼干
With my new Chinese baking equipment came a bunch of super cute panda cookie forms. I tried the recipe that came with it but I didn’t like the taste. The cookies turned out very hard and …
After the last post about essential baking equipment in China, how different supplies are called in Chinese and where to get them, here follows the second part of the guide: A list of baking ingredients, how they are called …
For those of you living in fully developed, non-Asian countries, a guide for baking equipment seems hardly worth a discussion, let alone a whole article. In China, however, baking a cake can turn into an insurmountable task.
Chinese kitchens usually …
There have been many articles on Chinese table manners. China’s eating culture can be as confusing as is its drinking culture.
Having good table manners in China can help you to avoid embarrassment. There are certain rules of of …
All over China neighborhoods are being demolished to make way for the future: bigger roads, huge shopping malls, and apartment blocks.
Recently, people started to voice their concern about China’s construction boom. Headlines like Success Hurts: China’s Building Boom Is …
When I came back to China from a three weeks visit in Germany last month, I found myself in a half-empty house. My mother-in-law was standing in the kitchen preparing dinner, which is a very rare picture as it’s always …
I have always thought I am crazy, or even suffering some mental problems, just because every time, I went back to Germany, my mother’s choice of country, and thus my maternal home, I had extreme trouble to re-adjust. I found …
Whether you are a regular traveller to the country or a first-timer visiting China, almost for sure you will at some point experience culture shock. No matter which part of China you are visiting, maybe Harbin or Sichuan, or cities …
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