Tag Archives: china

The #Chinese #Dollhouse πŸ˜‚

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​I’ve been sick today so I was playing on Taobao and found these adorable/hilarious dollhouse items. If You’ve ever lived in China you’d know how accurate these images are πŸ˜‚ Down to the cheap Chinese prngle alternatives (they look exactly like that!), cooke tins, and Green tea Oreo knockoffs πŸ˜„. I’ve been Coke Zero free for more than a month, but those bottles are so funny.  And the fanta soda.  πŸ˜‚

#Dollhouse #Travel #InternationalShopping #Funfinds #Hilarious.#ThatssoChina #LifeinChina

Liquor for a dollhouse! πŸ˜‚

Happy Β Chinese #LanternFestival!

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Happy Lantern Festival!  Tonight is the night (15 days after #ChineseNewYear ) when the Chinese light paper lanterns and send them up to the sky.  
My picture wasn’t very good 😭 I’ll post a better one later. But the #moon sure was pretty! Here in Zhengzhou, we have the highest smog records for the country, so the moon is a rare night.  Today was perfect for the festival! Clear skies, brisk air, and a good wind. πŸ˜„ 
Wishing you all the best and a great upcoming year! πŸ€

#China #travel #festival, #traditions #lifeabroad #international

Real #American Breakfast

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​A real #American breakfast!  πŸ΄  In #China, donuts that taste like real donuts and CHEESE! are so hard to come by. We’ll pay a fortune just for a good old-fashioned meal once in a while. The Chinese usually eat soup, dumplings, fried bread, or salad for breakfast, which isn’t my cup of tea. But we’re staying at the Hilton for a couple days – in China, the nice hotels have both an American and a Chinese buffet – makes for quite the array!  πŸ™‚ 

#LifeinChina #foodie #travel #ontheroad 

Spicy Beef and Bamboo soup

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​#Spicy beef and bamboo sprout #soup with noodles.  Traditional Chinese dish here in Henan- made from #spices that numb your mouth

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Happy Spring Festival to any Chinese viewers! Today is the first day of the Year of the Rooster. Wishing you money in your purses, love in your hearts, family in your homes, luck in your future, and wisdom in your minds

Durian – the #Stinky Fruit

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Durian is the #stinky fruit of Asia. They call it the cheese fruit and smelly fruit. ChinaΒ loves it in pastries, cakes, and the like.

I’ve been told it’s worse than stinky tofu and I’d agree. Smells like cat pee and tastes like it smells. On the good side, the smell, heaviness, and pokey thorns make it an excellent weapon!

Merry Christmas from China!

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Great Christmas Eve! πŸŽ… Went to breakfast and shopping with mom. Saw totally cute gift ideas!! 😊 Then my friend Harry came by and we made peanut butter and ritz cookies, had delicious dinner, walked the river looking at the lights, saw the fireworks, etc. ❄ Even saw an electrical fire! 😱 Then the lovely cafe owner’s wife gave me a cupcake for Christmas 😍 Even though China doesn’t really celebrate Christmas, lots of locals stopped to wish me Merry Christmas. Then woke up this morning to awesome gifts, delicious breakfast treats from a friend, and a spa day. Tonight I party with some friends here at the foreign housing. Β A real wonderful life!

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My Student Serena made me this wreath – isn’t it adorable?!

 

 

Highlighting History, Shadowing Mystery

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Found this while wandering down Tianzifang in Shanghai. Tianzifang is a maze of buildings in the old French Concession area.

Did you ever read one of the old books where someone got lost in the streets of China? Β Going farther and farther back into the twisting buildings built one overlapping the other, up and up and up. Β And below it all, the stranger moves deeper into an under-land of small one room stores and little, elderly artists and laborers selling their services? Β Tianzifang is one of the magical places, full of mystery, history, and a touch of the mystical.Β 

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Jumping Jacks (Wushu-Style)

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Look carefully, and you’ll see the Chinese lanterns in the background – I thought this was a cool photo. These are performing Chinese students of Wushu from the Shaolin Temple during theΒ biennial Wushu Festival.

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Nature’s Guardian

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An old stone guardian carved into the stone pathway up the mountain. Keeping all the creepy crawlies out an the beautiful natural atmosphere safe.

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