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Visa: No, not the credit card.
In less than a month, I will be embarking on a three month journey, first to Zurich, Switzerland and then to the giant rooster-looking China (the map literally looks like a rooster). The last time I...
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Walmart cell phones
So the other day, some of us went to Walmart in Beijing (Figure 1). We ended up spending FOUR hours there… Cell phones just seem to be a complicated business here, even though two cell providers...
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Some non-authentic Chinese food
Wangfujing is a famous, overpriced shopping street (Figure 1) that attracts tourists because of its world renowned exotic foods. Needless to say, I had to go. Multiple times. The first time, I went...
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Korean BBQ in Beijing
Every day for lunch, David (another student on the NSF EAPSI grant) and I go out to discover a new eatery since we do not want to pay for overpriced meals at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology...
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Huffing and puffing to the top of the Great Wall
One of the perks of the NSF EAPSI grant is that the program hosts took us on a trip to the Badaling segment of the Great Wall. When I looked up (Figure 1), I knew we were headed for a … Continue...
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An artificial park at the center of Beijing
Jingshan (景山), or literally “Prospect Hill”, used to be an imperial park directly to the north of the Forbidden City that is built from the dirt dug out from the moats surrounding the Imperial Palace....
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Shandong Dining & Etiquette
In China, food etiquette is extremely diverse, and for the first time, I received a dining etiquette lesson during a banquet dinner from my mother’s medical school classmates. I naively went to dinner...
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Chinese toilets are not made for food poisoning
I never really thought deeply about toilets—who would? Well, in China, you may have to do a little more thinking because most toilets are basically just a hole in the ground, and you are supposed to...
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An evening at Hou Hai (后海)
Hou Hai, meaning Queen Sea, (Figure 1) is one of a series of lakes in the center of Beijing. It is certainly a tourist attraction because of the overpriced restaurants and bars that line the lake. The...
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