Author: Kendra

Life

One Pearly Snow Day: Kendra’s Vegetarian & Vegan Survival Guide to Beijing

Posted from: Beijing Before we get around to the veggie walking tour, a breaking news update: Rumor has it there are weasels in the...

Life

Another Year in Toxitopia, or: Low Levels of Micro-Particulates are for Sissies

Posted from: Beijing I bought a fancy new camera that I don’t know how to use and always forget to bring anywhere except restaurants,...

Renting a hutong house in Beijing

Life

Home in the Hutongs

Posted from: Beijing, China The twenty-minute tirade of cursing, every filthy syllable of which passed with sparkling clarity through the...

Travel

Two Feet in the the BoHai Sea: A Fall Wedding in Dalian

Posted from: Dalian, China If I’d known that accepting an invitation to a Chinese wedding in another city meant the bride and groom...

Travel

The Great Wall of Corn, Wasps and Possibly Duck Brains

Posted from: Beijing / HuaiRou I have very few written records of my first year here, but I can remember almost every minute, because...

Travel

Dragon Boat Weekend in Gray Shanghai: Girl Talk and a lot About Trains

Posted from: Shanghai For anyone who’s expecting to hear about exciting forays into the highrise mafia dens of Pudong: I was in...

Tech

Chinese Standard Web Fonts: A Guide to CSS Font Family Declarations for Web Design in Simplified Chinese

Massive Google fail. Since days of searching have brought me no closer to answering my most pressing Chinese font questions, I bit the...

Life

Artsy Weekend Debauchery at 798 and Sexily Inappropriate Machinery

Posted from: Beijing I’d like to be the kind of person who buys art, I really would. Less in a “hmnah, one more Monet and my...

Life

Crackdown Smackdown: Snow White and the Three-Have-Nots

Posted from: Beijing Teh Facebookz blew up a few days ago with the news that the Beijing PSB, in response to a viral video of a British man...

Life

The Beijing Drunken Masters Supper Club: Expedition to Heroic Mountain

Posted from: Beijing It’s not that I don’t like being a vegetarian. It’s just that like most limp-wristed liberals, when...