Chinese food I enjoyed during my 5 week trip in China
Still an adventure. In my first week in Beijing I thought that 20元 (20CNY is about 2,3 euros) is an extremely good price for a meal. Soon I found out that I can get a simple meal for 5元. That’s only 60 cents. The best food is usually found where there’s no English menu. Just step off from the main street and head to where locals eat. If you’re lucky they have pictures and you can point. If not, then look what they are eating around you. One dish is around 20元. If you have a bunch of friends look for a hot potplace. At best it is messy, loud…
Are They Looking At Me?
I am so average in Finland. But when I landed in China suddenly all those people were interested who I was and what I was doing. Chinese people took my photos in almost every city I visited on my trip, sometimes asking permission and sometimes not. In five months I have posed in pictures with numerous girls, boys, women and men. In the Forbidden City one man took almost twenty photos of me wearing those unflattering travel clothes I have on the picture as well. And in the beach of Haikou several people manage to take a photo of me in my swimming suit. I am not exaggerating when I…
Sara Jaaksola in China: The reason why I decided to live in China
[Updated 2013.7.7] Coming to China had been my dream as long as I could remember. In primary school grade 6 we were asked to make presentations of countries to our notebooks. I chose China because my parents had lived there before I was born and I could add some photos to my work. When I went to middle school I wanted to study Chinese language but didn’t really have the possibility for that. Instead I just carried my father’s old Berlitz phrasebook with me. During high school dad bought me a Chinese learning textbook and I practiced with a little girl from the local Chinese restaurant. At that time I…