anythingpeach asked: Interesting blog of yours I just read. Ok that train, back in the 90s, would take about 3 days. I was taking that train from Shenzhen back to Beijing. I remember clearly I bought a 2L sprite from one of those little carts on the train and it was fake, just a bottle of sweet liquid with no fizz. Of course it was so long ago that won't happen now. Anywayz enjoy your trip.
Thanks!
I did a 20 Hour train ride from Xi’an to Hoh’hot Inner Mongolia in 2008 and it was fun. I didn’t bring any food and lived on the hot water dispenser, cup noodles, and some bai jiu. This time I am going at it alone so I decided to study some Chinese and listen to some audio books.
Prepping
For a 29 hour train ride from Beijing to Shenzhen to see some friends. To eat I’ve got: 3 ham and cheese sandwiches, 1 box of donuts, and 3 apples. To drink I’ve got: 2 liters of water, 1 liter of green tea, and 1 liter of soju. For entertainment I’ve got: 3 audio books, 2 novels, 1 Chinese text book, and 1 liter of soju.
The bathrooms on these trains are notorious for terrible sanitary conditions so I plan on slowing down my metabolism using my soju and some cold medicine.
I am heading for the train station in four and a half hours which is always an adventure and will be sleeping on the top bunk of a hard sleeper K style train which are part of an incredibly intricate railway system within the PRC.
This ride will be 10 hours longer than any of my previous train rides before and about 6 hours longer than any straight shot car travel I have ever been on. It’ll be the kind dirty, uncomfortable, loud, drunk, hilarious fun that I love being in this country for that doesn’t exist anywhere in the western world.
Saw this comment on Gawker about Mike Daisey/China, and it makes a valid point. Calling attention to poor working conditions in China isn’t what tinges of racism in Daisey’s monologue, it’s the little details he uses to characterize the people he never actually met. And we believed him.
Eating Japanese food, Drinking Korean Liquor, in the Capital of China. Getting real East Asian.
I live right where that yellow and red dot is. Close as hell to the Forbidden City & Tienanmen Sq. Still haven’t been there but I will be going this weekend.
Shenzhen, you’re looking a lot like Beijing these days but I will be seeing you soon.
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Since my VPN hates Wordpress I’ll be posting stuff here. Just got my camera fixed and I’m about to take a trip to Tianjin this weekend.
Here are some pork and scallion dumplings I made with the fine folks at Black Sesame Kitchen on Chinese New Year
For anyone who wants to know. I live 5 minutes from the Dongsi stop.
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