The Olympic Fans

Hong Mei Jie and Hongqiao

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August 9th 2008
Breakfast is the meal that is supposed to start your day off right. But I have to admit that we were all getting a bit tired of the leftovers from Ying Chen’s dinner, delicious though they were. This morning we started our day off with leftover salad and scrambled eggs with toast. (Later in the day we invented our own oddball expat cuisine - bow-tie pasta with canned peas, salty Chinese pickles, ... 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