It’s time to explain what I’ve been up to since July, when I went back home to my parents. My last few weeks in London were pretty crazy. I tried to meet up with as many friends as I could as I knew I wouldn’t see them for a few months perhaps. I learnt to say ‘yes’ to [...]
Boarding for China in 10 hours! I’m so excited. This year Beijing will be a city like no other. I am so eager to see the changes and the development the Olympic Games have brought! What does it have in store? I will have to wait until August 7th to set foot in the city. [...]
Original plain congee…so yummy!
This is my congee! It was pretty close to perfect, only a little on the thick side once it had cooled down. I used two thirds short, sticky, northeastern rice (东北大米) and one third glutinous rice. I think I will use little or no glutinous rice next time because I had to [...]
I just sent this email to BBC’s Points of View:
Dear Sir/Madam,
As a young British Chinese woman, I am very annoyed by Ching He Huang’s representation of our ethinicity in her programme. Her knowledge of Chinese is clearly very poor, so much so that her pronunciation of the word ‘tomato’ in Chinese was completely wrong. The [...]
I took my mama to the airport today. She has gone to visit my grandma in her home city of Shenyang for a while before Dad and I meet her in Beijing. I can’t wait to be there during Olympic season!
In the meantime, I have to occupy myself. I thought of a list which became [...]
