(Translation: Indian and Chinese are brothers) It was an interesting sight and since I didn’t want to offend anyone by taking a photograph, here I…
When we were coming here, we were told that traffic is really bad and I should not even think of owning a car, let alone…
Within China, I find so many websites which are either entirely composed of numbers (like http://www.4008123123.com/ which is a pizza hut franchise in Shanghai), or…
There are very large bookstores in Shanghai, much larger than the ones I saw in US. However, they carry Chinese books only (except for a…
Learning Chinese via English is hard even though there is pinyin, even though pinyin was invented to make this easier. It is much easier to…
Our experience with people has been great so far, and I am told that it is normal. I see taxi drivers tolerating our lack of…
Coming from the thought process that Indian and Chinese culture are similar in lots of ways, I was very surprised to find that in most…
It has been a long time since I posted here, sorry about that. I have been busy in the process of settling down which has…
Buying medicines was tougher than I thought. We asked in various govt hospitals but couldn’t figure out what they were saying! Later we were told…
Shanghai has 2 week-long holidays, one during Chinese New Year (end of Jan) and one during National Day (Oct 1). It is always fun, and…