Food Impressions

Bread I think of bread as being anywhere between San Fransisco sourdough to rye to Wonder white. Potato Bread, cottage, Italian sesame loaf, split top country, English muffins, bagels; hard or soft, biscuits; dropped or cut. Even the low carb options that are not really bread at all would be much appreciated in this place of rice and noodles. Wait though, it’s not that bread doesn’t exist. There’s a lot of bread here....

29 Oct 2007 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Great Wall Hike

For those who saw the pictures as they were still uploading, they now have more captions, and show up “in order”. 27 October 2007 North East Beijing Territory Some people from work were talking about a Great Wall Hike. I was reluctantly invited to go along, after being told many times that it would be a lot of up and down, and it’s very strenuous… Gubeikou The group starts off at a break-neck pace, and I become winded almost immediately....

28 Oct 2007 · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink

How Time Does Fly

23 October 2007 8 Gate Shopping Mall So I go alone to the KFC. I look at the choices, and the cashier gets the picture menu that they bring out for illiterates, and I point to it with two fingers and very haltingly say, “Wo You Er…” The kid behind the counter looks at me like I’m an idiot and says, “Yeah, you want two… I get it”, in a perfect ’lost youth’, American accent....

28 Oct 2007 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Photos

Check out my photos. Right now there aren’t that many, but the set will grow soon. Most of the posted photos have been mentioned in previous blog posts. I’m excited about getting a place to share them, so I’m posting about it before it’s well populated. I promise I’ll get more photos out there soon. Credit Due… Special thanks to Vital Systems Support for setting up the photo hosting.

23 Oct 2007 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink