Hello from Lanzhou! This is the big industrial city of the Northwest, once known for its horrific pollution. Now that the pollution is mostly cleaned up, I’m not sure what it’s known for, but my guess would be noodles. Every city has at least one Lanzhou beef noodles shop. Since I am pretty tired ofContinue reading “Lanzhou night market – sweet egg milk”
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Qinghai – and the best yoghurt in China
Someone call Professor Oak, because I’ve officially caught them all. I had already traveled through most of China in the late 1990s, but Qinghai was the last one – the one place I had never been. I finally made the trip last week, and just to celebrate the occasion, the gods of travel decided toContinue reading “Qinghai – and the best yoghurt in China”
Milk of Mongolia
Did you know that I am very interested in milk? Most people who have spent more than two minutes with me tend to become aware of that, at which point they decide that two minutes was already more than enough, thank you. I am still in Hulunbuir, having had a very eventful couple of weeks,Continue reading “Milk of Mongolia”
Back in Hulunbuir – dry fried beef 干煸牛肉丝
Well, I’m an idiot. My original plan was to take the slow and winding train trip from Shenzhen to Hailar. This was actually two trips, about 28 hours from Shenzhen to Zhangjiakou, and then another 33 hours from Zhangjiakou to Hailar. I did the first trip, and met lots of fun people, including the managerContinue reading “Back in Hulunbuir – dry fried beef 干煸牛肉丝”
Cows in Hong Kong (no brisket)
And… now I am in Hong Kong! If there are two more different places on this planet than Bozeman, Montana and Hong Kong, I have yet to see them. Strangely, one thing that the two places share in common is cows. Let me explain. The way we see the world is situational. If you are hungry, youContinue reading “Cows in Hong Kong (no brisket)”
abai 阿拜
No, they’re not “Taiwanese tamales”
Yellow Earth
From 15-18 September, the CUHK History and Anthropology AOE and Shaanxi Normal University arranged a field seminar in and around Xi’an. The itinerary was arranged by Micah Muscolino at Oxford, and took us to about 8 villages in Baishui 白水县 and Chengcheng 澄城县 Counties, along with a large scale water reclamation project, and two gorgeousContinue reading “Yellow Earth”
Lyme disease
Here is a picture of our awesome outing to the springs and oboo in Weinahe. Looks nice doesn’t it? Other than the fact that we finally have some good photos for our album of 90s college rock, do you by chance notice anything about these pictures? Anything that perhaps separates one of us from the others? That’s right, oneContinue reading “Lyme disease”
Hulunbuir
I’m back, baby!
Harbin!
My second summer in the possibly charming city of Harbin.
Thomas David DuBois 