Posts Tagged ‘china’
Today I met some friends at Mr. Zhao at Naschmarkt in Vienna. Mr. Zhao is an Asian restaurant, not as popular as Li’s Cooking or Toko Ri just next to it, but with a much better and much more friendly service than both others have. Also the prize of what you eat there [...]
You actually can eat scorpions, crickets and coackroach larvae. Just go to Beijing, ask for all these things and you will get them at first, still alive to ensure that they are fresh, then prepared as you prefer. In this case on the stick and deep-fried.
But do not take this too serious, it [...]
I do not know how many of my fellow readers ever cooked shrimps, but no matter how much you like or dislike these animals, I from now on regard them as one of the most stupid species in the world (followed closely by my neighbors, but that is another story). I went for taking photos [...]
In 2004 I decided to go to Kashgar, at that time there was the myth of it being the end of the world, have a look yourself. Although preparations have been made and I was ready to go, I did not. Too many things happened in Shanghai and Beijing and time was extremely [...]
Leaving Shanghai for a destination nobody knows something about like Urumqi (乌鲁木齐) is not very common, especially not, if you have no idea that you are going there. My fellow friend Magdalena came to China to visit me in Shanghai, not expecting that I had completely different plans with her: there was [...]
When I came to Shanghai, I was confronted with an environment that was completely neutral. Nobody knew me, nobody saw me before. As I described earlier, it was a good feeling and I could start a new life here. Of course, as time went by, I got to know more and more people – and [...]
I will not judge what happened, because I do not understand Chinese culture that well, but for all the other cultures I know, this would be a shame for somebody to do. What happened?
Before I left Shaoxing, I talked to Jane about having dinner together in Shanghai. Both of us liked guo tie, so there [...]
Austria is a very small country with a population of just about 8.5 million people. However, there is no place in this world, you cannot find Austrians somewhere. I do not know why and how, but until now, everywhere I went to, I found Austrians, who were established in this region already. The same thing [...]
I went to Starbucks in Shanghai and although I do not like Starbucks’ coffee policy (everywhere in the world) and although I do not like their attitude on alleging themselves as the only real coffee makers with the only real taste (something like the reference of coffee), I have to admit that [...]
Celebrating your birthday in Shanghai seems to be a funny thing, especially if you are born there, are snobbish, have no idea of the world outside downtown, are a bit not that intelligent and your only goal is to find and have sex with a man who is rich so that you [...]
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