It was late one October night, and most of us were suffering the effects of one too many glasses of baijiu, China’s notorious national liquor. This meant only one thing: food. Two of our crew swayed over to KFC, while…
Mid-Autumn Merrymaking for China’s Moon Festival
My first Moon Festival celebration was a mix of east and west, traditional and modern – much like my ex-pat experience in China as a whole. Falling in September 2010, a month into life as a teacher in Tianjin, the…
(Travel) Memories are Made of This
I’ve been looking through scrapbooks recently, and reading old travel journals, digging up the little details of foreign adventures that disappear in the weeks, months, and years after you return from a trip. More specifically I’ve been looking back at…
Training My Taste Buds In Tianjin
Nĭ chī le ma? Have you eaten yet? Think of the absolute basic, every foods you have in your home in the UK. Bread. Milk. Cheese. I thought these essentials of my daily diet would be essentials elsewhere – but I…
Memories of A Year in the Middle Kingdom
As I mentioned a few months ago, I’m quite the nostalgic traveller. It has been just over a year since I left China, and my mind has been returning to memories of the Middle Kingdom. In between last year’s finalities…