There is a mid-age Chinese lady working in my restaurant. I saw her on my first day at work but didn’t talk to her until last week. After a little greeting, she asked me where am I from in China, I said Shantou, then she went on and asked the name o...

Richard.H posted on July 24th, 2006 under: Shantouer | Tag: culture, people | 12 Comments »

Fragrant potato rice:
Rice, a potato, couple handfulls mo2gu1(dried mushrooms), some beef, some pork, lots spring onions, couple tablespoons oyster sauce. (Quantities: how much rice and meat do you want to eat in a meal?)
Cut the potato up...

Maggie Ad posted on July 4th, 2006 under: Living in ST, Eating in ST | Tag: culture, recipies | 8 Comments »

Chinese cooking has been somewhat of a mystery to me since I arrived in Shantou, a mystery I have dearly wanted to crack, but just couldn’t get my head around.  My friend’s parents, and my friends with kids, their food is so delicious ...

Maggie Ad posted on July 4th, 2006 under: Living in ST, Eating in ST | Tag: culture, food | 2 Comments »

Recently a Chinese medicine friend looked at my tongue and checked my pulse, looked worried and warned me my inner heat (内气) was unusually high.  He did it twice and both times he preceeded by a couple of days infections worthy of hospital atte...

Maggie Ad posted on July 4th, 2006 under: Living in ST | Tag: culture, Dongxia Road, hospitals, medicine | No Comments »