That’s right, your Beijing Duck might not even be entirely digested from last Thursday’s Thanksgiving, China-style, but the Christmas decorations are going up with full force. Christmas markets are starting – the first being this weekend at Shanghai’s Paulaner. Get your fill of gluewein, shopping and Santa at the German-themed Christmas Market and check out …
A reader recently asked how and where to eat Halal food during a business trip to Shanghai. China has a large population of Muslim peoples who are part of ten ethnic groups. The largest cluster is the Uigher minority from Xinjiang Province in China’s far west. These folks have brought their palatable cuisine east and …
Image Mike Aquino, licensed to About.com. That’s my PC at the dresser in my hotel room at Victory Hotel, Hue, Vietnam. I liked where I ended up – as my first choice couldn’t accommodate my change of schedule, I switched over to the indirect of Victory – and got more than my money’s worth. For …
After six years in Shanghai, a city I used to venture was relatively inexpensive, I’m finding costs crawling farther up. Little white stickers are appearing in more and more restaurant menus covering old prices and indicating new ones. As Shanghai becomes more cosmopolitan and developed, so are the prices. But that shouldn’t get the traveler …
Image from “Cu Chi Guerrillas” Cu Chi Tunnel, 1967. One of the utmost interesting things they show you when you inspect the Cu Chi Tunnels exhibit in Vietnam – provided you can muster a sufficient sense of irony – is the kitschy propaganda video “Cu Chi Guerrillas” (shot in 1967, in flickery black and white), …