The World Series of Poker can move aside now. The three-month 2012 Sichuan Mahjong Competition ended on Saturday with Jing Daiju, a 33-year-old woman, winning 200,000 yuan. Runner-up Wang Chao, a 24-year-old woman, took home 50,000 yuan. Organized by the Chengdu Chess and Card Association, the event drew more than 300,000 participants, including online players.... Read more »Read more »
Going to KFC is like reaching into a grab bag of awful and grief. The Colonel peddles a strain of juiced-up flesh that has contributed far too long to our society’s headlong dive into self-wallowing and idiocy. How many children have grown up illiterate due to this mountain man’s white provender? How many more need... Read more »Read more »
Photo via Beijing Daily A Beijing property management staffer recently found a baby crocodile in a pool of water inside a residential complex, according to Xinhua. He called in the Beijing Aquatic Wildlife Center, which has confirmed the animal is a 40-centimeter young Siamese crocodile, native to southeast Asia, capable of growing to three meters.... Read more »Read more »
A show on Guangxi Satellite recently showed footage of a man just a bit too cool to ride his motorbike like a normal human being. Apparently he was doing these stunts going at an excess of 60 kilometers per hour (37 mph). Read more »
By Alicia This “Lamborghini” made with spare parts from other cars and steel pipes is the ultimate passion project. Wang Jian, 28, from Siyang, Jiangsu province reportedly spent 60,000 yuan to construct this life-size replica model of the classic Italian sports car (maybe the Gallardo?), and slapped on the license plate “王NB0001” (the character is... Read more »Read more »
Via Imgur, at the Bawangfen South bus stop near Dawanglu in Beijing. Atari, yo. That’s the new old image of badass for the 2000s generation. What’s that, that’s not the Atari logo? Fuck it, I’m a pimp. Gonna go back to reading this now. (H/T Alicia) UPDATE: Picture by Natalie Litofsky! Read more »
We've seen, on more than one occasion, people here play real-life Frogger to disastrous results. A news show in Heilongjiang Province called Xinwen Yehang (新闻夜航, literally "News Night Flight") has connected the dots -- Frogger... real-life... BAD -- and compiled several dozen examples of jaywalking pedestrians risking their health to get across a street in Harbin called Edmonton Road. Read more »
They’re not even trying anymore. Xinhua published a slideshow today of the “Top ten happiest cities in China,” according to a CCTV survey, and the list goes: 1. Lhasa, Tibet 2. Taiyuan, Shanxi 3. Hefei, Anhui 4. Tianjin 5. Changsha, Hunan 6. Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 7. Shijiazhuang, Hebei 8. Jinan, Shandong 9. Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 10.... Read more »Read more »
The Beijinger's New Festival Showcase at 2 Kolegas on Saturday mostly proved to be your standard gathering of drunken expats, except it produced one hell of a musical highlight: Residence A, a Beijing staple we featured in an Outro earlier this month, giving what I thought was the performance of the night around 8:30 pm. Reasonable music fans will disagree, and I admit I didn't catch every act, but the energy was noticeably different with these guys on stage, to say nothing of musical phrasing and general ability. Read more »
On Sunday, a Jilin province-based ginseng association was holding a promotional activity in Beijing’s Chaoyang Park when environmentalists brought its event to a sudden halt. Before being intercepted by park security and escorted out, the young protesters made it known that ginseng mining destroys forests. At least one woman was topless, drawing all the cameras. Poor... Read more »Read more »
