In the latest episode of Furious World Tour, the adventurous Pete hits up Beijing's hotspots with his characteristic Canadian suave. Along the way, accompanied by the Beijinger's Marilyn Mai, he samples some multiple bowls of hand-pulled noodles, applewood-roasted duck, "pizza," spiders, scorpions of different sizes, smelly starfish (he's not a fan), and curry chicken from the infamous House of Poo Poo
No, dude. You’re doing it very wrong. Global Times: A foreign man, who claimed to be a journalist, was detained by Beijing Customs after they discovered heroin inside his sports shoes at Beijing Capital International Airport. The alleged smuggler, whose identity and nationality have not been revealed, arrived in Beijing at 8 am on January... Read more »
Actually, there’s not much that’s humorous about these images of atmospheric carnage, but over the course of eons a uniquely human response to the ghastly and macabre has been to expectorate fleshy, puny, anthropoid sounds that in our language can be classified as “laughter.” Laugh away at this.
We don't really get how a reading that theoretically should max out at 500 can spit out a number like 755, but look at the above. It got so bad last night that Beijing's official air-quality index conveniently went "out of service" from 10 pm to 10 am this morning. When it came back, it featured this warning:
Those of us who choose to live in one of China’s big cities understand the deal. In exchange for opportunities for personal and professional growth, a front seat on the roller coaster that is China’s development, and all in all a pretty good life, we agree to put up with traffic woes, the occasional big-city... Read more »
“Are Beijing’s chengguan stealing from the homeless?” we asked in the headline of a Tuesday post. Yeah, they are. Confirmation via Xinhua: The theft of vagrants’ belongings in downtown Beijing has prompted an outcry for the protection of homeless people’s rights. A group of more than 50 uniformed, but unidentified, individuals took the possessions of homeless... Read more »
Out of the way, Google and Apple Maps. Here’s a 3-dimensional, interactive, painstakingly rendered map of Beijing that, on top of all its pretty amazing features, looks like the ultimate Lego world. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like you can zoom out all the way, but you can go far enough out to realize that the... Read more »
Proving again that if you’re out trying to get drunk in Sanlitun, you might as well just drink baijiu so at least your brain knows it’s being poisoned: Beijing police detained five suspects and confiscated over 37,000 bottles of fake foreign alcohol which was sold to bars along the Sanlitun Bar Street, police told the... Read more »
Chengguan are like referees: the less you hear about them, the better. If this is our standard, they've made progress, since we haven't heard much from them for a while. But all good streaks come to an end, so here we go, via Global Times:
