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richristow
@richristow Oct 26, 2025, 4:53 AM UTC

Being a Very Ill Zoo Animal in China

A few days ago, I recently got out of the hospital after five weeks of having an IV stuck in my arm and a drainage tube in my side. Long story short: I have liver cirrhosis type one brought upon by y…

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richristow
@richristow Jan 27, 2023, 6:14 AM UTC

A First Real Experience with Hainan Chicken

In my end of China, foreign food can be split, mostly, into two categories: western and non-Chinese Asian. Predominately, the Asian varieties tend to be dominated by Japanese, Indian, Thai, and Korea…

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richristow
@richristow Jan 25, 2023, 7:16 PM UTC

Year of the Rabbit Spring Festival Photos

So, currently China is in the middle of the Spring Festival / Chinese New Year. The Chinese zodiac follows a 12 year lunar cycle. This year is dedicated to rabbits, last year was tigers, and the year…

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richristow
@richristow Jan 16, 2023, 3:10 PM UTC

Something Kind-of French in Changzhou

The Chinese city I have been living in for the last nine years now has had a very abysmal record with French food or restaurants serving "French-inspired" cuisine. A prior attempt had a space that wa…

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richristow
@richristow Jan 11, 2023, 4:48 PM UTC

Wednesday Walk through Renmin Park, Changzhou

For my Wednesday Walk, I decided to wander around Renmin Park, a tiny greenspace in city center of Changzhou, a Chinese city between Nanjing and Shanghai on high speed real. It's a tiny place, and he…

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richristow
@richristow Jan 3, 2023, 5:54 PM UTC

嘉泽老街: A Tiny Old Street to a Temple of the Flower God

Old streets, old villages, and old water towns are actually pretty common in my part of China -- regionally speaking, that would be Jiangsu south of the Yangtze, Shanghai, and northern Zhejiang. Then…

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richristow
@richristow Jan 1, 2023, 6:45 PM UTC

West Tai Lake by Night

Xitaihu, aka West Tai Lake, is resort tourist development in Changzhou, Jiangsu province where a municipal Chinese government dumps a lot of money into the middle of nowhere and thinks people will ev…

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richristow
@richristow Dec 27, 2022, 4:25 PM UTC

Conveyer Belt Hot Pot Meets Iron Plate BBQ

While cheap all you can eat buffets like Golden Corral are typically an American thing, buffets tend to be more of an expensive international hotel thing while in my end of China. That being said, th…

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richristow
@richristow Dec 22, 2022, 3:56 PM UTC

Liyang's Straw Monsters

Imagine a giant gorilla duking it out with an equally large dinosaur, but consider the these creatures are not exactly real, but are made out of stalks of rice straw. Such weirdness does exist as a t…

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richristow
@richristow Dec 21, 2022, 11:38 AM UTC

Eating Artichokes while Having COVID

Artichokes, some might argue, are a natural fit for Mediterranean-inspired cuisine. Where you absolutely will not find them would be in any iteration of Chinese food. So, in my city of Changzhou, the…

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