Finishing Chinese class at 6pm meant knowingly taking the subway during rush hour. But this isn’t any regular post-work rush hour. This was Chinese rush hour. There’s a common saying… [Continue Reading]
Author: Ivan B
Race in China is a touchy subject. As a very ethnically-homogeneous country, Chinese people don’t really much think about race and how they and their fellow countryfolk deal with it…. [Continue Reading]
What happens when you mix greasy McDonald’s food with the smog spewing factories in the growing economy of contemporary China? You get the Modern China Burger, of course. This item… [Continue Reading]
I walked into my school one day and was “voluntold” (a word we foreign English teachers around here use when we’re forced to do something for our school) that we… [Continue Reading]
If you can’t tell by my previous few posts, I think that Japan is one truly fantastic country, and I’ve just barely scraped the tip of the iceberg. There is… [Continue Reading]
A hallmark of any world weary traveler’s trip to Japan should be a stay in one of the thousands of capsule hotels, almost as symbolic of Japan as riding the… [Continue Reading]
Japan is one noodle loving country. Walk down any street in Tokyo and you’re bound to come across two or three noodle joints serving a variety of Japanese noodles, captained… [Continue Reading]
I was naturally curious to see what an Oktoberfest would be like in Japan. Again, this was Tokyo flexing its international muscle and proving it can hang with the likes… [Continue Reading]
If there’s one thing Japan is known for, it’s giant robot statues. I set off one afternoon to a waterfront neighbourhood called Odaiba in Tokyo to search for one of… [Continue Reading]
Akihabara. The very name draws a resounding “wowww” from those familiar with it, and a corresponding “HUH?” from people who have never heard of it. For those unfamiliar with this… [Continue Reading]