Year In Suzhou

 All of Asia loves a good hot pot .  The Koreans have a hot pot.  The Japanese have their shabu-shabu .  The Vietnamese and the Thai have ...

Train Number G116 Theresa and I had been over a year-and-a-half in China, and still not gone to Beijing yet.  So, a few weeks ago we fin...

Our Entry was "Tsing Tao Duck Chili"  On October 20th, Zapata's TexMex Restaurant hosted their 4th annual chili cook-off. ...

One of the most famous spots along the West Lake, in Hangzhou, is the LingYin Temple and the adjacent FeiLaiFeng grottoes.  In this little...

Tea Bushes There's an old idiom about " all the tea in China ".  I'd always heard it, but never understood until comin...

One of many bridges at West Lake (XiHu)  Ok... it is a bit pretentious to go with an all-Chinese-character title for this post.  I don...

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.  It's not much of a holiday here in China.  Many of the local folks are aware of this American tradition...