Tipping in China
Don’t. It’s not expected, and they don’t respond positively when you try. I tried the first night when I arrived and my cab driver talked to my contact on the phone to get me to the right place and waited …
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Line to get in Hong Kong
We’re waiting right now to go through customs into Hong Kong. Looks like we have a while to wait. Shouldn’t have come on a Saturday morning.
A random clothes observation
I’ll probably make more observations about fashion in China (though as my target audience is engineers I don’t see how it matters much), but there’s one observation I’d like to make that has baffled me. With the exception of corporate …
How do you screw up mango AND plum? Go to China
Who would have thought that dried fruit could be so difficult? Today’s twofer was born out of frustration. I was hungry and excited for something I was fairly confident would taste good. Dried fruit is always good, right? Even bananas …
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Dried peaches, maybe? Plums?
Next in the series of random packages of unidentifiable food… No English, strange unidentifiable contents, we’re good to go. In case you are wondering about the date on the bottom, that’s the date of manufacture, NOT the expiration date. I …
My apartment
This is the place where I’m living for three months. My apartment is near the Daxin metro station, which makes it somewhat convenient to get around. The building is the middle one with the green glass on top. This is …
First post of random snack food
Eating in China without knowing the language has been challenging. I’ve been fortunate enough to frequently be in the presence of people who could order for me so far during this trip, but I haven’t forayed out much on my …
A quick note on some upcoming posts
We had the opportunity to visit a PCB manufacturing factory and a rapid prototyping factory and the Shenzhen electronics market last week. I have video and lots of photographs, but I am only now having the resources to assemble it. …
An entire conversation in silence
Engineering is a universal language, and a hardware store is a forum for communication. It happened that I was in need of a special metal part for a prototype of a separate project. I went downstairs to the small hardware …
Sheets
One of my first experiences interacting with the Chinese was a lesson in futility. Well, a few lessons, really. After a few nights freezing with no sheets and my only long-sleeve shirt being my jacket, I desperately needed sheets. The …