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Big trouble on little Fuji and Shanghai nights

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September 30th 2006
I feel for you, all those long long blogs i have published in the past (sorry Rhian). So this one is going to be a quick and painless edition. I believe I left you on a knifes edge, with tales of fugu (blowfish). So in true homer simpson style, I ordered the potential deadly blowfish (also known as globe fish, puffer fish and fugu) not like i could order much else as it was a specialist fugu resta ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more