Dave’s Wagon

Happy Thanksgiving from Hangzhou!
My fellow Americans and I had our Thanksgiving dinner at a local hotel, where, disappointingly enough, no turkey was served. Now that I think about, I’m not sure I’ve seen turkey once yet in my time in China. This brings me to dredge up this article from an old issue of my […]

What is it about this country that dictates that (nearly) every native fruit, vegetable, and nut must be spectacularly frustrating to eat? Just once I’d like to bite into something without a shell, pit, spine or other natural defense preventing me from getting at the small morsel of food within.
The worst I’ve probably come across […]

Sometimes it takes a “Chinese vs laowai (foreigner) beer competition” invite wedged under your door while you sleep to realize just how far you are from the dry campus of your home country.

Kudos to Fark.com for finding this video of airport security foiling the recent Transatlantic Aircraft Plot:

If in China a Chinese were to pose to me the question “Why are Westerners so fat?”, I hoped to be able to answer cleverly with the Chinese adage “民以食为天” (food is heaven). Now, if I want to be honest, I’ll have to say “Because we believe cross-country running is a human rights abuse.”
I myself […]