Nice waitress...awful boss
Does the equation work? at least it does in Turpan where the service and food were excellent; nevertheless, our views changed when we had to pay for a bottle of wine we ordered, we were ripped off once more and all the boss had to do was to find us a bottle of white wine across the road; I guess he was too excited to have foreign customers (we didn't see many foreigners in the city) and showed his thrill by overpricing the 'almost hot' bottle of wine, which by Lydie's standards -she's a better wine connaisseur, I suck at this- was most appaling.
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 
