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Avid readers of my blog (hey mom!) know that I usually blog on books I read. The good ones, anyway. Here’s the ones I read in Chengdu. I read all of them in Hebrew, by the way.

Long Lost, Harlan Coben. OK, it’s a Harlan Coben book, which is pretty lame. But it was a OK [...]

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Clouds and mists
Chang-Fu Xin Xan
Starbucks
Xian-Nan-Lu
Sichaun pepper (yuck!)
Our ‘home’ restaurant, the yellow/sterile one, the green one, the one across the street
Dodo’s cafe
The Metro
The secrets of Free Mori
Tandoor
Endless amount of high rise buildings
The Bookworm
Kabalth-Shabbath at Meirav’s
Abigail starting to walk in the museum
Tai-Chi
Spitting
Blue Massage
Bao-Tze
Shi-Er-Qiao Lu
The butcher-shop dogs
Table tennis at the gym
Road hierarchy: Bus, Taxi, [...]

Tags: chengdu, china, thoughts

As you may know, China has a ‘one-child-policy’. It basically means that you can only have one child (and if you have more, it costs a lot of money). I never realized what this law really means.
It’s not just that you don’t have brothers. Your parents do not have brothers, too. So you don’t [...]

Today we went to an Indian restaurant here in Chengdu, called Tandoor. It was really great – they were very friendly (the managers come from Delhi), and impressed with our fluent Hindi. And the food? the best we had so far in Chengdu – great Indian food! Dal Makhani, Palak Paneer, Samosas…
It got me [...]

I can’t believe it’s almost 2 months since we left Israel already. It seems like we’re in China for a longer period, although it’s very difficult to get used to this place. Everything is different.
Today I had 3 tasks to do after lunch – Pay our gas bill, get a hair-cut, and recharge the Chinese [...]