Nanjing, Jiangsu — While I sampled the home style cooking of Jiangsu province, I made the mistake of spending only 24 hours in Nanjing. This former capital city of south China (‘nan‘ meaning south, whilst ‘bei‘ means north for Beijing) undulates with hills while the sunlight flickers through tree-lined [...]
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Reported on March 15, World Consumer Rights Day from CCTV
Currently, health is one of the most important topics in our daily life. People are inclined to buy lean pork instead of fat. A reporter (whose identity CCTV keeps confidential) accidentally found a type of pork meat with more lean than [...]
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While traveling with Shanti, I had the pleasure of getting used to staying in hostels. For the most part, I was surprised by how cozy, cheap, well-furnished and well serviced they were. However, over the length of the trip, hostels had to slowly win my love over with their Chinese-English dictionaries, WiFi, and the complimentary golden retriever in every lobby (we saw three of them in three separate hostels).
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