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Category Archives: Yantai
Google+ Vs Facebook
From Google vs. Facebook: Should Human Rights Factor in Your Choice of Social Network? on Huffington Post Google Plus, which launched in beta last week, has been Topic One among the “digerati,” who’ve spent much of the week kicking the … Continue reading
Posted in New York City, Yantai
Tagged China, chinese, Facebook, G+, Google, social networks, stivison on the future, Yantai
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Bu Chai
Tom Lasseter, who replaced Tim Johnson as the China correspondent for McClatchy, mentioned today on his blog that Beijing plans to renovate all the hutongs around the Drum and Bell Towers. Renovation is hardly news in Beijing, where the pre-Olympic … Continue reading
Silkroad Society
This Joymax press release on multiplayer games, virtual societies, and Asian culture, landed in my inbox the other day: Joymax, an independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment for the global market, today announced the launch of a third “Clean … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese life, game culture, Yantai
Tagged China, chinese, Eric, games, games and relationships, gaming, General, Joymax, MMOs, multiplayer games, reading, Silkroad Online, WomenGamers, WoW, Yantai
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Waiting
Eight or nine years ago, I worked in a diner while on a, ahem, break from college. The Pioneer Valley is full of similar college-age breakers, finding themselves, forming bands, creating art, getting that awful first novel out of the … Continue reading
Extreme Shopping
Cooking Mama 3′s shopping game is uncannily like shopping in a Chinese supermarket. Mama sends you out to find 4 pieces of unwrapped, unrefridgerated meat, but as you search the store to fill your reusable carrier bag, you’ve got to avoid oddly familiar store characters — shouting shop assistants in pastel uniform aprons or a girl with a basket of squid, shellfish and other distinctly Yantai seafood — who’ll slow your shopping progress by trapping you into minigames. Higher levels add loose eggs, heads-on fish and mushrooms to your shopping list, and more people to the store. I keep trying for the elusive perfect score, since I imagine it’ll unlock a “Sunday In The Auchan” extreme challenge level. Continue reading
Posted in Chinese life, Raleigh, Yantai
Tagged Beijing:Raleigh, chinese, cooking, Cooking Mama 3, games, nintendo DS, ThumbGods, Yantai
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Liu Gong Island
I have no idea how I went from running to the mailbox each afternoon in hope and expectation, to utterly forgetting to mention this, but… I have a travel piece in the March-April issue of Adventures For The Average Woman. … Continue reading
Montclair, The Land of Hunan House
Every time I came home from college or from traveling, the first thing I’d want to do in my hometown of Montclair is go eat Hunan House Chinese food. So yesterday, when I flew in from Raleigh to my parents’ … Continue reading
Posted in Montclair, New Jersey, North Carolina, Yantai
Tagged China, chinese, Chinese food, family, Raleigh, travel, Western food, Yantai
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Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist 8111-137 Creedmoor Rd Raleigh, NC 27613 Last week was Triangle Restaurant Week, when an assortment of local restaurants run a special set menu. We were meeting up with Lynn and some of her friends. I ended up narrowing … Continue reading
Posted in Beijing, North Carolina, Raleigh, Yantai
Tagged adventures with Stick, chinese, garden, latin, Lynn, Raleigh, restaurant reviews, southern food, Stick, wine, Yantai
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Victory Milk
Coupons depress me. If you summed up everything I loved about our expat adventures, clipping supermarket coupons would be the opposite. It seems to sum up the repetitive mundane side of life in the US, which is of course made … Continue reading
Posted in Beijing, Raleigh, Yantai
Tagged Beijing:Raleigh, China, cooking, Jenny Lou, mail, melamine, Stick, travel, Vanguard, why I love Stick, wo ai xi can, Yantai
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Thanksgiving
Luke started a group writing challenge to list seven things we’re thankful for this Thanksgiving. I had to go over a little, and I kind of combined some things, because an endless list — while great for me — wouldn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Beijing, other blogs, Raleigh, Yantai
Tagged Books, China, coffee, Cosmo, family, malavette family, my family is crazy, other bloggers, other blogs, southern food, Starbucks, Stick, Western food, Yantai
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