My eight year old daughter was born in Shantou and then adopted to the United States when she was just a baby.   She is such an intelligent child, and started asking questions about her birth city when she was just three years old, wanting to know e...

Amy Eldridge posted on July 27th, 2007 under: Shantouer, Visitors | Tag: Family | 6 Comments »

Well, my official goodbye! I’m now in Xiamen with my friends here… Will be here until August, when I’ll go to Ningxia to teach voluntarily for a month, then on to Qingdao to study Chinese for a semester It’s so exciting! A...

Maggie Ad posted on July 16th, 2007 under: ST event | Tag: No Tags | 5 Comments »

One of our reader left a comment about giving away her two kittens. I posted it in our forum and a member stredsun posted a site call Shantou Love Cat Organisation （汕头爱猫协会）.
I think it’s great to have a organisation like th...

Richard.H posted on July 15th, 2007 under: Living in ST | Tag: LCO, Pet, Website | 1 Comment »

A funny advert on Youtube (via istel.info), but the man is speaking Chaoshan dialect!!! Even the fire fighters people shout in Chaoshan dialect. I wonder why this company named Centraal Behee in Apeldoorn use Chaoshan dialect in the ad but not Mandar...

Richard.H posted on July 13th, 2007 under: ST on the Web | Tag: Ad, language | 5 Comments »