Here Be Dragons

Asia » China
July 10th 2010

Published: July 23rd 2010

Here Be Dragons China, Part One: Of curvy roofs, mountainous scenery and horrible, horrible Chinese toilets Day one: Hekou, Yunnan province (just across the border from Vietnam). And so it’s on to China. The moment you cross the border from Vietnam into China, you notice how much friendlier people are here, compared to back in Vietnam. When I walked out of the customs office and sa... Read Full Entry

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Traditional architecture

Will probably be bulldozed next week

Newspapers

Chinesers catching up on the latest government propaganda outside the park

Engrish

Buy your ticket here if you want to get high fast

Engrish

Luckily Guess! You like Engrish yes! Be for but the! So couch!

Great Wall Lube

I was shooed away when I tried to photograph this. Obviously Great Wall lube is a sensitive state secret.

Lijiang Plateau Outdoor Club Donkey Line

Obviously.

Yak pat

Dung dynasty

Lijiang

Waterwheel

Lijiang

Zhang Ji Fungus of King restaurant. Yum.

Nice combo

My pet peeve again

"Bargan price". But you have to walk in to find out what that supposedly bargain price is. I hate that.

Chinglish

'Shopping should be rational'. Couldn't agree more.

Have backpack, will travel

My trusty (Chinese-made!) backpack

Dong

More Chinglish

Not-yet-double-cooked pork

Chinese pigs really are black. Huh.

More Engrish

'Yak angle Salisbury store'. Obviously.

I can totally have those guys

Shangri-La

Yak crossing

State-of-the-art technology

In 1964

24th July 2010

Rosie
non-member comment

Great writing and cute kittens ...
Nice and police ppl .... sounds like my kinda place. As a polite only child myself may I respectfully point out: a) the cliche all only children are spoilt brats is a steaming pile of yak dung; 2) nb 'little emperor' not empress - female infanticide has been practiced for centuries in China (despite laws prohibiting the practice) as there, like India, sons are preferred. The one child policy has led to an imbalance of sexes among young adult Chinese; finally may I be so bold as to point out 3) at the end of your story you mention an older sister so how is that kid an only child?

24th July 2010

Aaardvark
Emile V.

@tigerlilyrosie: Sshhhh

26th July 2010

kaleem
non-member comment

chinese caterpillar
dude, bring some back. the monarchy is likely to fall on hard times sooner or later.

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