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.
Soup & Chow Mein which in Chinese is pronounced ‘me-in’. Blew my mind when I first heard it.
South Korean BBQ // Beijing
Had delicious (read: expensive) Korean BBQ last night for a girl’s birthday. She got too drunk at the club and puked it all up on the taxi ride home. Ya know, because she’s classy like that. As I patiently waited in the taxi listening to her vomit, the only thing I imagined coming out of her mouth was money. When she finished I told her to not puke in the taxi, wished her a goodnight, and headed home. There’s only so much I can put up with, and a girl puking up an expensive dinner in a taxi is where I draw the line.
