Category: Qingdao Stories

24 Feb

Photo Evidence of Baby-Eating in China!

This is a joke two years in the making.
I love it when a plan comes together.

09 Feb

Chickity China, The Government Abuse Chicken

Not to be one to doubt the New York Times, but c’mon…

COLORADO SPRINGS — When a caterer working for the United States Olympic Committee went to a supermarket in China last year, he encountered a piece of chicken — half of a breast — that measured 14 inches. “Enough to feed a family of eight,” [...]

14 Jan

Caveat Pumptor

Yesterday I had to return a breast pump. It was a transaction I was dreading because I had to do it in Chinese. Normally I don’t have problems in stores. I speak enough Chinese to get by. But this was different. I had to convince a team of salesgirls to [...]

10 Dec

Little Blue Book, continued yet again

Artemis’s passport arrived in time. She and I went to the Shangrila Hotel Friday morning. A foreign service officer was there in the lobby processing papers for other Americans in Qingdao. Or rather, she was explaining to most of the them why she couldn’t process their papers.
“You should have made [...]