Last night we went to a little restaurant a few blocks from the school. From the Arabic on the sign, and the lack of pork on the menu, it’s probably a Muslim place. (This is always reassuring to me because they tend to have really clean kitchens, something that is not always part of […]

Christina’s awesome panoramic of the rainbow bridge.

(PS — Eric, the Great Firewall seems to be preventing me from answering your comment, but Stick said the same thing when we saw it.)

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Yesterday, we decided to catch the bus into central Beijing and do a little exploring. It was touch-and-go whether we’d get out at the right bus stop, it seems that in Beijing, all the streets in the neighborhood are variations on the same name. We found ourselves at what seems to be the intersection […]

We found this popcorn stand just outside our complex.

First, you pick your flavor. The possible flavors are pineapple, strawberry, some word I don’t know and chocolate.

Popcorn lady puts sugar and butter and pineapple flavoring in a gas-powered popcorn popper.
Add popcorn…

Stick and our coworker Christina model the finished product, pineapple popcorn.

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