Typical Chinese reaction to a bad habit of mine: <something bad happens> Me: Jesus! Li X: What you say? Me: Jesus. Do you know Jesus? Li: Zhisus? I don’t know. Me: You don’t know Jesus ...

This should have something for everybody. Just two days after protesting outside Korean bakery Tous Les Jours, French-embittered Chinese mobs took to the streets and burned a Yugoslavian flag, “as...

Interessant interview op VRT deze week met een Chinakundige over de kwestie Tibet. (Link doet het niet in FireFox.) Gevonden via Sargasso.

Perhaps I’m blogging more about Romania than about China, but I guess that’s because I still have closer ties to Romania than to China, both in a good and in a bad way. A Romanian friend of mine, ...

I can’t help feeling a bit frustrated when reading the coverage of the riots on most ‘free’ news sites. I will not comment on the issue directly (way over my head), but I do believe this article do...

My Chinese bike broke down again: the chain snapped. New chain: 25 RMB + 2 RMB for labor.

Robotic vacuum + Lego + Camera I’ve attached a camera to our robot vacuum cleaner, and this is the result (video lost in the Serendipity-to-Jekyll migration). I plan on doing this again and hope t...

John, owner of The Coffee Lobby: How much rent do you pay for your apartment? Ine: About 400 euros per month. John: That’s not too bad. Ine: It’s good, considering we get 500 euros per month rent f...

So I’m sitting in a Macauan restaurant, minding my own business. Thinking about one of those egg tarts I heard so much about. They are supposed to be squishy and smell good, I heard. When suddenly ...

We ate 狗肉 tonight. It was dish with meat, tofu and spinach. I particularly love spinach, but had no idea what the 狗肉 was. The restaurant we were in only served dishes that had 狗肉 in their names. Th...