CHINA
Country Overview:
“Love the food, hate the government”
I arrived in China in May 2013 and left August 2020. I taught English for awhile, did my master’s of politics & foreign policy at Tsinghua University, worked for a year at China Today, and then two years at Xinhua News Agency. I spent most of my time in Beijing, but also traveled to Shanghai, Wuhan, Inner Mongolia, Shenzhen, Panjin, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Qingdao, Xi’an, Sanya, Macau, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Dumplings for Days
I don’t have the necessary skills to make dumplings of this quality. My friends sent me these pictures as they are much more skilled in the art that is dumpling making
Bao it up!
It was all fun and games until the actually "bao" ing of the jiaozi started. Incredibly challenging to get it just right
Dumplings are my go to when I’m hungry, so of course I had some while at the Great Wall
I also get a lot of flak from Chinese people when I tell them that I like to eat them with soy sauce. They eat them with vinegar, which for me is a terrible combination.
The last picture is of the steps leading up to the wall, which took about 15 minutes to climb.