Category Archives: food

Dog Eat Not Dog (SCMP Column)

Posted on February 4, 2013 by cecilie

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Good Lord, Is That The Time?

Posted on January 24, 2013 by cecilie

I mean, quarter past three weeks since I last posted a blog entry? Bloody hell. I can’t live like this. I think it all started when the Sony service centre blithely called and said I had lost two weeks’ worth … Continue reading →

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The Joys Of Guiyang, a Photo Safari

Posted on December 28, 2012 by cecilie

Is it only Guangdong province that has proper youth discos? Here in Guizhou it’s all boring KTV, i.e. sitting in a small rented room by yourself or with two friends, singing karaoke and being waited on by people like the … Continue reading →

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Experimenting With Camera

Posted on December 25, 2012 by cecilie

We must have stayed in the wrong part of town in that Foshan, for surely there are more interesting and less sterile parts of it than the area where our hotel, the City Inn, was. And less windy, eight-laned and … Continue reading →

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Pancake Make-up

Posted on October 20, 2012 by cecilie

Ah! This is the kind of result we women want to see when we go to the beauty salon. From 76 year-old Chinese woman to 23 year-old western woman, in one treatment. (I presume the left half is the “after” … Continue reading →

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New Crib On The Block

Posted on October 16, 2012 by cecilie

Finally! Last Sunday saw the first, “soft” opening of Tap Tap, a new tapas bar with real Spanish chefs and everything, in sleepy backwater Pui O! Hooray. The demise of Pui O Delicious which was the former inhabitant of the … Continue reading →

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Me! Me! Me!

Posted on September 30, 2012 by cecilie

I never realised how much fish resemble children until I went into the gardens of the beautifully appointed Fuhua Hotel in Zhongshan yesterday. With no respect for their elders and betters, it’s all me! Me! Me! in the fish world, … Continue reading →

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Dog Walking the Cesar Millan Way

Posted on September 6, 2012 by cecilie

My walks with Koldbrann continue, with Cesar Millan’s shows always at the forefront of my mind. Calm and assertive, always correct unwanted behaviour before it has a chance to escalate, don’t reward unwanted behaviour (for example by patting a dog … Continue reading →

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Guangdong Delight

Posted on May 17, 2012 by cecilie

After I started writing for famed newspaper South China Morning Post (their Post Magazine on Sundays) it seems this blog has gone to hell. Now I’m getting paid to write what I would normally put here. I like getting paid. … Continue reading →

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Paying for Your Own Annihilation

Posted on April 25, 2012 by cecilie

A couple of Sundays ago, April 15th to be exact, I threw a Titanic party and felt the usual fare, Sichuan food, wouldn’t do to commemorate the tragedy. We needed dairy and salmon. Off I trotted to the Wellcome Shop … Continue reading →

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