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Customer Service: Subway Delivers 24″ of Goodwill

elliottng — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:14:00 -0600

Complaints about poor service in China are common, especially amongst foreigners with both a language gap and a different set of expectations. Some manage to lower their expectations and work with what they have. Others will complain, fail, fume, and live to bad-mouth the Chinese another day. Yet others will go to incredible lengths to [...]

Why Burger King is absolutely screwed.

djod — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:28:00 -0600

Is it the £5 burgers? The fact you can’t pay by card? The inferiority of their chips vs. those of McDonald’s? Not even.
I’ll have it my way please - with a roof.
Final customer escape hatch…
I’m not cleaning it up.
There is a frigging huge hole in the roof, dripping water and dirt into the restaurant. Into [...]
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“Donut-shaped Jewish bread” — Bagels Hot Commodity in China

theforeignexpert — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:22:00 -0600

A bagel is one of the last things you'd expect to find in the kind of isolated regions where I travel in my work as a photographer of indigenous peoples -- which is a problem, because I love bagels and suffer if a week goes by without one. But on a recent expedition, I was driving through remote northwestern China photographing the Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking people who for centuries have lived on their land, oblivious while international borders changed around them. I pulled the car over at a street market in a rural village outside the city of Kashgar near the Pakistani border.
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Hi! Are you a doctor? Please help. Thx!

djod — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:06:00 -0600

Yesterday my eye was a little bit itchy (not bitchy), right in the corner. I tried not to rub it (thanks for the advice 20 years ago Mum!) but it gradually seemed to get worse during the day.
By evening it was quite painful. It ached a lot, especially if I happened to lean over (with [...]
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Hello, everyone!–by a new co-author of China Travel and Hotel weblog.

Winser Zhao — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:08:00 -0600

Hi,this is Winser.I’d like to introduce our new co-author of the China Travel and Hotel blog. Satan. Yeah, she named Satan. but she is really a loveling and easygoing girl from Hainan Province, South China. Well, we will have 4 co-authors uptill now. and all of them come from local China and they are native [...]

Free Milk?

Steve Webel — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:50:00 -0500

Tonight when I was buying some milk for the girls to drink, a little lady at our local grocery store approached me and told me that if I bought a box of the ‘new’ milk, they would give me a box of the ‘old’ milk for free.
I politely said no thanks… but she persisted, why [...]
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Watch Debate Replay in Shanghai

mojoloveszoe — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:40:00 -0500

Image taken from Newsday

Don't think I haven't been keeping up with what's going on with the Presidential Campaign.

Where I'm going tomorrow night:

mojoloveszoe — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:34:00 -0500

The Blues Room

So today I got an invite from a bass player "bassed in Shanghai" named Jimy Graham to check him out at The Blues Room. I'm excited to go because I like the Blues Room, even though I haven't been there to listen to blues yet.

Great place to get cheap and good sandwiches in Shanghai

mojoloveszoe — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:21:00 -0500

That's right, City Shop!

Pre-prepped sandwiches are 15-25 RMB.

Wedding Noodles

liuzhou — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:04:00 -0500

I call them "train noodles". Because, I usually only eat them on trains - as does everyone else. Instant noodles.

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