Posts Tagged ‘shanghai’
Ni hao, and how!
Off to Shanghai today, my mother’s motherland. It’s been 7 years since I last spent time there and I’m sure I’ll barely recognize anything. I’ve hardly processed that I’m going there, thanks to last week’s stomach flu and this week’s deluge of work.
I’ll take plenty of photos and hope to come back with trinkets and [...]
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Tags: china, chinese, shanghai, travel
VD = no China for you.
I have to apply for a visa to go to Shanghai in a month. They’ve really cracked down pre-Olympics. Not only has the cost of a visa skyrocketed (but only for Americans), they’re asking for a lot more documentation than usual. My single entry visa is going to be $130! My cousin’s lucky she hasn’t [...]
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Tags: china, diplomacy, shanghai
Chinatown on St. Patrick’s Day.
Chris and I tried to go to Joe’s Shanghai on Monday. The wait was apparently only 15-20 minutes when we got there, but the entrance was swarming with people and it was totally unpleasant. I’ve only been there once, and was kind of shocked that it would be so crowded on a Monday night. I [...]
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Tags: chinese, food, restaurants, shanghai
