i will add this to my collection of signage. i confess i photographed this as we were exiting this “no entering” area as well.
Category Archives: travel
798 art zone | beijing travels cont.
just returned from a week in xi’an. we have been getting in a quite a bit of traveling the past couple months, and it has been nice to see other parts of China. alas, my blog is still working to catch up in documenting these different experiences, so i will continue on in my recap...
Compassion for Migrant Children | Beijing
During our visit to Beijing, we also visited a CMC Community Center. CMC – Compassion for Migrant Children – is a nonprofit organization that aims to help China’s urban migrant children. Why and how do they help migrant kids? You can read more here. The Community Center is located on the outskirts of the city...
i saw the sign | beijing edition
adding to my collection of interesting signage, here are some that i saw around beijing. yes, i find amusement in expressions lost in translation, misspellings, and cute phrasing. which is your favorite?
a visit to the Great Wall
was simply majestic. a couple weeks ago, we took a family vacation to Beijing. the trip was part of our goal to travel around China a little more this year, and it felt like quite an achievement to finally get ourselves beyond the greater Shanghai area. the week was spent doing a good mix of...
5 rmb a pose please | hangzhou china photographer
Monday was a national holiday. So we took this rare vacation day to take a daytrip to Hangzhou – a city famous for its natural beauty. There is a Chinese saying that goes “上有天堂 下有苏杭“ Translated, it means that “Above there is Heaven, below there is Suzhou and Hangzhou” So we went and soaked up...
strawberry picking adventures | jiaxing china photographer
look what we got to do this weekend. yum. we ventured out with some of hannah’s classmates to the surrounding countryside to go strawberry-picking. me and hannah were both excited as we have never picked strawberries before and hannah *loves* strawberries. and it was a chance to get to know her classmates a little more....
i saw the sign (around hong kong)
some signs and words we spotted around hong kong that i found fun or inspiring or both. i will let them speak for themselves. which one do you like the most? and how many little topiaries do you think they have to maintain to be able to spell out the day of the week and...
egg waffles: hong kong-style
continuing on this food theme for this week, i’ll share a small but happy food experience during our trip to hong kong. we were just walking along the streets when we stumbled across this hole-in-the-wall food stand, selling egg puffs. egg puffs (or egg cakes) are basically a hong kong version of waffles that break...
chinese new year, hong kong style
continuing on about my adventure to the HK flower market over the Chinese New Year. as i said in my last post, it was not your average flower market. we arrived to find out it was actually a New Year FAIR. the guys seemed much more relieved and excited once they saw that we were...