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It's an excursion: Beijing

27 September 2012

About two weeks ago I went for a four-day trip to Beijing. Indeed, I didn’t want everyone to tell me “What? You’ve been to China and you haven’t seen the Great Wall?”. So I booked a hotel, I grabbed my Lonely Planet China and my friend and five hours...

It's a place: Hongkou

19 August 2012 ( #it's a place )

Hongkou area is situated at the north of Suzhou River. I had the chance to visit two places there: Duolun Lu (Duolun Road) and Hongkou Park. Both were very charming and made me feel like I had travelled time. First of all, let’s talk about Duolun Lu....

It's a chinese wedding

07 August 2012

Last Saturday I got invited to a Chinese wedding, thanks to my roommate. Of course, I accomplished my blog duty by taking pictures and investigating Chinese traditions. First of all, let me describe you how it went. So, for starters, the host that animates...

It's the Golden Week: Yangshuo

11 October 2012

The Golden week is the name Chinese people give to one of their three weeks of national holidays. It occurs the first week of November in order to celebrate the National Day and the Moon festival. During this week, the entire China is on vacation. Yes,...

It's Shanghai Jewish refugees center

21 July 2012

During World War 2, a lot of Jews escaped Europe and some of them went to China, and more precisely to Shanghai. Actually I didn’t know about that but it was approximately 30 000 Jews that were fostered in Shanghai at that time. I went to visit the main...

It's food: Buns

29 August 2012 ( #it's food )

I eat buns very often, and I always forget to take pictures in order to make an article about them. Usually I think about it right after taking my first bite and I’m always like, “oh never mind I’ll do it next time”. But this time I resisted my hunger...

It's food (1)

28 June 2012 ( #It's food )

In order to really get the culture, you need to try everything. This is what I told myself before going to the two restaurants I will talk about now. The first one served Sichuan food. Sichuan is a province in mid-south China. People there eat mainly...

It's Jing'an temple

27 July 2012

Last week I visited Jing’an temple, which is in my neighborhood. Jing’an literally means “peace and tranquility”. I couldn’t agree more. Even though it is a fairly touristic place, you can still see Chinese people praying inside the temple. They give...

It's food (2): Black Chicken

11 July 2012 ( #It's food )

My roommate is particularly fond of this weird species of chicken: the Silkie. I must admit that when I first saw it dead in my kitchen, I didn't feel so good about the animal. The second look at it didn't feel right either: the Silkie not only has black...

It's a flat

27 June 2012

Thats it, I'm in Shanghai! Here are the pictures of the view from my bedroom, and of my breakfast (I'm not kidding). Now I guess I understand why Asian people take pictures of everything when they come to Europe. So, I thought English was an international...

It's a place : Anfu Lu

02 July 2012 ( #It's a place )

Anfu Road (Anfu Lu) is a very famous street of Shanghai situated in the Xuhui area. It is also known as coffee street because you can find a lot of western style cafés. Why? Because the compounds in this street only foster Foreingers. (click on the picture...

It's what I see: China-vs-Japan, the Senkaku Island

11 October 2012 ( #It's what I see )

Let me introduce you to a new section of my blog: It's what I see. I actually realized I wanted to have a more spontaneous section where I could post articles that I find interseting, pics taken in the street, music heard somewhere, or really just anything...

It's fruit markets

02 July 2012

In Shanghai, you can buy fruits from the super market, but the best thing to do is to buy them from the fruit markets spread all around the city. This one for example is just at the corner of my street. (click on the picture to see more) Just in case...