We all know the feeling of losing our cool, but how many of us know the misfortune of having a meltdown secretly filmed and uploaded to Youku, where it gets 390,000 views in half a day? Check out the above, which happened recently in Chengdu, according to the Youku description. A foreigner, because he almost misses a bus, begins cursing at the bus driver in up to three languages, while everyone else watches ...

Like the most quintessential of Americana, chili is not complex -- a stew of beans and tomatos, ingredients that fill the stomach, kick the tongue -- yet it's only with such a square, hearty base that we can sign our culinary art into the slight variances that elevate mere provision into the estimable domain of gastronomy. It is possible for chili to achieve morphology, where degrees of difference are plain ...

Does this make any sense? Via Shanghai Daily: The six Danes who got off from a bus on the middle of an elevated road to urinate in full view of the public are likely to be let off but the bus driver could face a 200 yuan fine. Also, six demerit points. (A driver only has 12 to spare before he loses his license.) So, why can't the foreigners -- Danes, reportedly -- be punished for doing this on Saturday afte ...

This message on Sina Weibo about six Danes pissing in Shanghai: A group of laowai collectively pee on a Shanghai overpass, while smirking!  Can only say __ doesn't have national boundaries! Please fill in the blank! Bladder control? Pissing in public? Eating urine-soaked eggs? Smirking? ...

These are the worst type of stories. The. Worst. What we have is a foreigner (laowai) and Chinese person arguing at Sanya Airport in Hainan province. (What is it with Sanya? We saw another foreigner and Chinese person tussle earlier.) The foreigner, wearing a fannypack, accuses the Chinese of cursing and "beating" him. The Chinese guy, presumably the one filming, posts this nationalistic tripe on Youku (a v ...

The trivial and madcap escapades of drunken expats rarely rise to the level of serious news, the kind that might be featured on, oh, the Telegraph. But recently, a standoff between locals in Shanghai and foreign revelers on the popular bar street Yongkang Road escalated to such heights that the Telegraph's Tom Phillips reported on it in an article headlined, "Shanghai residents declare war on drunken expats ...

A possibly mentally unstable foreign man took off all his clothes and streaked through Beijing Capital International Airport's Terminal 3 yesterday afternoon, chased after by two shouting policemen. That last detail is provided by Legal Mirror, but the man doesn't appear to be running or chased in the above picture posted to Sina Weibo. Although if a picture exists, it means there has to be a video, right? ...

No Pants Subway Ride, the annual event launched in 2002 by New York City-based Improv Everywhere, has spread to more than 60 cities, in which subway commuters strip off their pants on January 13 just because. Thousands participated this year in New York, hundreds in Mexico City, and, um, maybe a dozen or so in Shanghai? Participation looked sparse, but it's not about quantity, of course, but quality, and fe ...

The winners of the Global Times Tongue Twister Contest have been unveiled. Welcome to fame, guys and gals: ...

An English teacher at Guangdong Medical University is now an Internet darling for his rendition of the Chinese song "A Brighter Future" by Beyond. The 10-minute video, posted to 56.com (after the jump) five days ago, has been viewed more than 1.1 million times. Via The Nanfang: The teacher, Zach, who has been teaching at the University for four months, said he can sing any Chinese song as long as he has the ...

https://twitter.com/beijingcream/status/267774962352414721 Turns out, nope -- at least in terms of content. But on Saturday afternoon, one reporter attracted an equal amount of attention at an 18th Party Congress press conference. She stood up, took the mic, and asked a nearly minute-long question in Mandarin, and then wryly said, "I'll translate for myself." A few chuckles came out of the erstwhile cataton ...

Want to be like the fellas above? The Global Times has launched a "Tongue Twister Contest for Foreigners," co-organized by Commercial Press and Chinese Universe. Those of foreign nationality are asked to submit videos of yourself saying Chinese tongue-twisters, which will then be judged from December 1 to 20. The top 20 will be selected for a "final vote," where "language experts" weigh in. The deadline to ...

[caption id="attachment_6238" align="alignnone" width="482" caption="Via www.laowaicomics.com"][/caption] Here's another reminder that being a flagrant asshole to others can have consequences. A foreigner recently got the crap kicked out of him by security guards after he said "fuck you" to one of them in English. According to The Nanfang (via Southern Metropolis Daily), the incident happened last Friday in ...

Good laowai? Bad laowai? Laowai laowai? You decide. (Poll after the jump.) Taken on Beijing Subway Line 2 as part of the Halloween "subway party" Saturday night, uploaded by our friend Jacob at BeijingShenghuo. Happy All Saints Day, everyone. Youku video for those in China after the jump. ...

Longtime China resident Cam MacMurchy, who ran the well-respected Zhongnanhai blog for several years before co-founding The Nanfang earlier this year, is nothing if not a reasonable and fair writer. We've watched from afar as The Nanfang, a community-driven website covering the Pearl River Delta, has steadily grown, expanding its listings every week while continuing to produce interesting content on its blo ...

You might have missed this, but Gangnam Style is pretty popular worldwide, including China. It is also unpopular worldwide, including China. That makes it an online sensation, and as such, it has spawned countless parodies, and at least one incredibly epic rant. Some parodies are better than others -- and some are parodies of themselves. Here are two of the worse. ...

Jon Huntsman, the one-time presidential hopeful and former US ambassador to China, has probably said more sensible things about China to more Americans in the last year than just about anyone in the world. It was only earlier this year, after all, that he trashed his own party's approach to China, saying, "I don't know what world these people are living in." And in a very recent interview with Isaac Stone F ...

I don't know, it could be that our "American friend," named Jared, is a total asshole. But he sure looks friendly. Look at him assisting the old lady with a cane. And after the jump, check him out doing hand gestures as if drivers actually follow them. (Maybe they follow a foreigner's directions?) Everyone is so happy with a white face around. Jingde, Jiangxi province's Pearl Hill Road will never be the sam ...

Misunderstandings happen, we get that, but most of the time they're harmless and can be waved off with a smile and a chuckle. Yet every occasionally, there's this... here's the lead from a Shanghai Daily article this morning: Local police yesterday refuted widespread rumors suggesting that a five-year-old girl was forced to sell sex to foreigners after two expats grabbed the girl from a "human trafficker" a ...

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 ener ...