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A day at the salons
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 29 July 2009
It's inexpensive to treat yourself right in China. Last Sunday we took a trip to the hair salon and foot massage parlor, which absorbed pretty much our whole afternoon. At the hair salon you begin with a frothy in-chair shampoo and head massage which lasts about 15 minutes but seems much longer. The bubbly shampoo froth continues to pile higher and higher and just when the mountain of suds are about to topple over, they walk you over to the sink for a hose down. Then comes the 20 minute head, shoulder, arm, and lower back massage, which sounds nice, but is actually v
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A day at the salons
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 29 July 2009
It's inexpensive to treat yourself right in China. Last Sunday we took a trip to the hair salon and foot massage parlor, which absorbed pretty much our whole afternoon. At the hair salon you begin with a frothy in-chair shampoo and head massage which lasts about 15 minutes but seems much longer. The bubbly shampoo froth continues to pile higher and higher and just when the mountain of suds are about to topple over, they walk you over to the sink for a hose down. Then comes the 20 minute head, shoulder, arm, and lower back massage, which sounds nice,...
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The Binkley Files, Part I
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 25 July 2009
Thanks to Steve and Arleen for guest blogging last week! They claimed to have had a good time here and we have no reason to doubt them.
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The Binkley Files, Part I
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 25 July 2009
Thanks to Steve and Arleen for guest blogging last week! They claimed to have had a good time here and we have no reason to doubt them. When our cousin Andrew Binkley the Photographer found out we were going to Shanghai he gave us a small errand. He was in Shanghai at one point making photography and left some of his work at the Yuandian Art Gallery. Recently he asked them what happened to his work but they didn't respond to his calls or emails, which left open several possibilities. Among others: they could have gone out of business, they...
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Shanghai By By!
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 24 July 2009
Final Guest Post By Arleen and Steve........ Man, time flies... Getting on a plane in a few hours. Want to give a shout out to Arlene for the great comments. If not for her, this would seem like a one-way communication. You FOA's that are lurking are urged to pound on your keyboards.
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Shanghai By By!
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 24 July 2009
Final Guest Post By Arleen and Steve........ Man, time flies... Getting on a plane in a few hours. Want to give a shout out to Arlene for the great comments. If not for her, this would seem like a one-way communication. You FOA's that are lurking are urged to pound on your keyboards. This visit has been a blast. Been using taxis and striking out on our own, getting where we wanted to go and getting back. Shanghai jumps everywhere. 24-7 crowds, traffic and construction. Never been anyplace like this. Took in the yuyan street market on Wed. and wound...
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The Killing of a Chinese Fruit Fly
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 22 July 2009
After we came back from Hangzhou we had a small fruit fly infestation. They were breeding in the drains and though they didn't harm us in any tangible way, they made the women of the household very upset, which caused the men to be upset. Liz and Arleen hatched a silly plan to use detergent and incense and whatnot. Seth demanded that he finally be allowed to get a rechargeable 2.3 kilovolt electric tennis racquet bug zapper. Here is a video of the zapper in action.
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The Killing of a Chinese Fruit Fly
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 22 July 2009
After we came back from Hangzhou we had a small fruit fly infestation. They were breeding in the drains and though they didn't harm us in any tangible way, they made the women of the household very upset, which caused the men to be upset. Liz and Arleen hatched a silly plan to use detergent and incense and whatnot. Seth demanded that he finally be allowed to get a rechargeable 2.3 kilovolt electric tennis racquet bug zapper. Here is a video of the zapper in action. Death of a Chinese Fruit Fly - watch more funny videos A Total Eclipse...
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Dig To China
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 21 July 2009
Another guest post by Arleen and Steve. The entire country of China is in a single time zone, Bejing time. This time of year, dawn breaks in Shanghai at about 4:30 AM and it is night time by about 6:30 PM. We go to bed early, awaken early and get sleepy at noon. Our body clocks are still adjusting.
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Dig To China
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 21 July 2009
Another guest post by Arleen and Steve. The entire country of China is in a single time zone, Bejing time. This time of year, dawn breaks in Shanghai at about 4:30 AM and it is night time by about 6:30 PM. We go to bed early, awaken early and get sleepy at noon. Our body clocks are still adjusting. Yesterday, Liz took us to a food court in one of the large malls for lunch. We have never seen such a large food court and probably won't ever see one like this again. The progression of booths were, Asian, Asian,...
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The Weekend in Hang Zhou & Arleen Masters Chopsticks
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 20 July 2009
We stayed at the Ramada Hua Hai in Hang Zhou, a really first class western style hotel. Breakfast, which was included, turned out to be quite a treat. Magnificent would be an understatement. A large room full of stations that included American, European and Asian foods and delicacies. More like one of those weekend brunches at high end restaurants.
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The Weekend in Hang Zhou & Arleen Masters Chopsticks
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 20 July 2009
We stayed at the Ramada Hua Hai in Hang Zhou, a really first class western style hotel. Breakfast, which was included, turned out to be quite a treat. Magnificent would be an understatement. A large room full of stations that included American, European and Asian foods and delicacies. More like one of those weekend brunches at high end restaurants. [ELANA, we ate eggs, toast, juices, coffee, waffles, Chinese dumplings, fruit, but had no rice for breakfast.] We then began our exploration of the Westlake area, which contains many of Hang Zhou's attractions.
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A Trip to Hang Zhou After Arriving in Shanghai
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 19 July 2009
Talk about tired... sore feet, sweaty and very, happy. After arising at dark-30 on Wednesday July 15th, we had an uneventful trip to Shanghai via LA, arriving about 24 clock hours after leaving, but also losing a full day as we passed over the international date line put us at Liz and Seth's apartment at about 8:30 PM on Thursday, July 15. Of course, we ran right out to have our first meal in Shanghai and that kind of sets the tone for this blog. Woke up the next day (Friday), met Seth and Liz at a localo park after their morning run and then walked back with
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Beijing, the wall, Shanghai, China.
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 18 July 2009
D5675, Shanghai South Railway Station to Hangzhou, 17.58 scheduled arrival time. This wasn’t a train that I was anticipating sitting on. A couple of weeks ago I booked a flight from Shanghai to Kuala Lumpur on Air Asia X. I never took too much notice of the airport as I figured I’d sort it out when I arrived in Shanghai.
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Blogpost for Elana: Our Biggest Fan
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 16 July 2009
To our niece's chagrin, we have not posted a blog in the past few days. We hope these pictures of a Mickey D's delivery man appease our favorite critic.
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The Way of the Empty Bamboo
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 12 July 2009
We've discovered that the best way to practice Chinese it to hang out with old retirees in the park. They're there every morning and evening and love to talk. They don't have any particular place to be.In the park they do all sorts of activities, including playing with a device that resembles a diabolo (a large yo-yo controlled with two sticks and a string) and an old fashioned top. It's called Congza or "Empty Bamboo".
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Fresh Fish
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 11 July 2009
We booked tickets and hotel rooms for three trips: Hangzhou water town, Huangshan Mountain featured in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Guilin where we'll travel down the rivers and hike through the rice paddies to explore minority villages. With future adventures planned, we are spending this weekend exploring Shanghai. Today we bought a live fish from an outdoor market. The scaled and gutted fish played it cool for a few minutes until we were out of the market and then tried to flop its way to freedom.
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Accidental Soup
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 9 July 2009
We've been on the look out for two culinary delights. We've searched high and low for the Big Soup Dumpling 'Tang Bao', a large dumpling filled with hot soup, served with a straw for slurping. We've also searched high and low for Beijing Duck 'Cao Ya', crispy, roast duck.Tonight, we hit the roast duck jack pot. We found Quanjude (786 Huai Hai Zhong Road), a restraunt that specializes in roast duck.
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What part of 'No Frippery' don't you understand?
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 8 July 2009
This post is the 1st installment of our Funny Signs in China series. Indeed, we didn't see one frip in the whole place. It turns out frippery actually is an English word.
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Crème de la 1.3 billion
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 7 July 2009
As most of you know, our summer in Shanghai is financed by the Univ. of Michigan—Shanghai Jiao Tong Joint Institute and, in return, I have agreed to teach the youngsters here an Introduction to Algorithms. The Joint Institute is an exclusive degree-granting institution that recruits the best, brightest, and richest students at Jiao Tong but uses the University of Michigan curriculum, often taught by Michigan professors during the Summer semesters. (Exclusive? Yes, the tuition here is 5 times that of the regular university.)
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China: People of the Middle Kingdom
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 30 October 2008
I've spent the past week in China with colleagues from the Australian Society of Travel Writers.
