qingdao like kungpao

ten things you probably dont know about the other side of the world.
..and if you do youre just a fucking geographic/culture and or history geek.



1.)there are no addresses, or street names - at least where i am.. there are #s and characters spray painted everywhere - how does fed ex deliver one asks? a lucky guess i assume.

2.)the magical buttons on the toilet were to "heat the seat" - it's the big thing to in korea i hear -heat your seat -- hehehe



3.)every pastry i have eaten (or what i was told was a pastry) is made of some kind of bean. this one happened to look like a fish; it's the only fish i will be eating after the lobster salad.. (bread with purple bean paste inside)



4.)there are no "yellow" lights. the trafic light turns from green to red/then counts down like the infamous red light at the jersey shore. who knew guidos and qingdao had something in common?!

5.)the escalators and moving walkways in the airport dont move until you step onto them.

6.)fanqui: foreign devil .. x-pat: ex patriot, aka western transplant

7.) apparently everyone rides a moped, with a small child on their lap - and nobody obeys traffic signs or lights (hmm bad drivers...?) the streets are a fucking free for all.

8.) turquoise means caution when on the road - all the guardrails and lines on the road are turquoise.

9.) everyone drives a shangvan - wich looks like a cross between the vw van and an old school toyota -- OR they drive 3 wheeled cars?! (fuck i accidentally deleted the picture of the 3 wheeled CRX)

10.)its all about heated towels, everywhere i go they give me heated towels.. maybe that goes hand in hand with the heated toilet seat?

DOUBLE JEOPARDY: shikishiki - or should i say thanks fro tuning in.

L i cant wait to eat a green tea kit kat 7

this ones for you deliA: