Dec 27 2009
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 [...]
Dec 23 2009
VPN for youtube and facebook 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 [...]
Dec 21 2009
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 [...]
Dec 17 2009
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 [...]
Dec 11 2009
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 [...]