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That wag Tim Footman has managed to prick my conscience into getting me to write a second blog post in a month – my pathetic rejoinder to all the ‘blogs are dead’ noise on Twitter. As my life at the moment consists almost entirely of exam revision, lesson writing and cat grooming, I have to plunder my [...] Herewith – some pictorial illustration of the aforementioned Chinese Banquet of Excellence. Unfortunately, most of the main dishes got eaten before I thought to photograph them, but the menu went something like this: Cold dishes:Cubes of silken tofu marinated in chilli oilMushroom, carrot and green bean salad, marinated in a tofu and tahini dressingSoba noodles in a [...] I’ve been a lax blogger of late. This is because I have become obsessed with Chinese cuisine, and have been chopping up animal flesh and saucing it up in all kinds of decadent and delightful ways. Tonight is Chinese banquet night, and I have eight dishes to unleash on my unsuspecting public. It matters not that [...] One of the many jobs I did when I lived in China was working at a recording studio attached to the country’s biggest audio-visual publishing house as ‘token British female’. Over the four years I lived there I must have recorded hundreds of hours of English language learning materials. These were used across China as part of [...] Pudong skyline: fifteen years ago this was all agricultural land. The view from my hotel. At night I’d occasionally see a light on in the tower crane driver’s box to the right of the picture. Did he sleep up there? Shanghainese shoes on the 93rd floor: spot the Chanel. Down at street level things can be a little more [...] I haven’t been blogging much because I’ve been working flat out, and when I haven’t been working I’ve been eating, and when I haven’t been eating I’ve been recovering from all the working and eating. Today I worked in the recording studio of the Shanghai foreign languages university, recording some English language learning materials. Six hours of [...] When I used to live here, the varied and unpredictable social life was one of the main appeals of this crazy city. Aside from the fact that everything is cheaper so it’s easier to go out five or six nights a week, new places open (and close) at such a phenomenal rate that there is always [...] [...] How do people survive in this city without air conditioning? It’s almost the end of October and still it’s too hot to sleep without the chugging lurching air conditioning unit on all night. In the end I turned mine off around 2am as the noise was so loud I couldn’t sleep anyway, but then I just [...] |
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