http://myshantou.net A blog on Shantou, China Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:01:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just got some photos from my parents. These were taken in Changping Road on the 20th April. Shantou was flooded within a few hours after a heavy rain. My dad complained about the drainage system and said it needs to be improved. As summer is almost here, Shantou is going to ... http://myshantou.net/photos-flood-after-heavy-rain.html Very well done cafe/tea house/bar, quiet but not boring, balcony with a sea view, a design company owns it (I think!) - it shares the premises! So the design is tasteful, and not tacky. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture and we never got around to going back. ... http://myshantou.net/love-bar-tasteful-and-quiet.html I should've written earlier, but I actually visited Shantou in January (08!) for a week - a whirlwind of meals and visits and one night of hard drinking. It was for my friend Henry's wedding. I never actually made it to the wedding - had to get back ... http://myshantou.net/maggie-returns-very-briefly-and-in-january.html Only half an hour into our walk through the Pu, we had a group of about twenty teenage boys trailing us and shouting at ear-splitting volume. This is what it feels like to be a celebrity, I thought. This is what it would be like if I were Ben Affleck ... http://myshantou.net/an-afternoon-in-the-pu.html Just a note of clarification on writing credits here. All the recent news summaries are written by Shantou J-school students -- not by me, as the photo and the title "author" on its side might suggest. This is a technical glitch that we'll hopefully work out soon when all bloggers and ... http://myshantou.net/clarification-on-writing-credits.html By: Yamaha Gong Chenghai, a Shantou satellite community and industrial area, has established a cooperative operation with CCTV to produce toys based on CCTV cartoons, according to an agreement reached on February 28th. As a famous toy production base and one of the most important export cities in China, Chenghai gained ... http://myshantou.net/chenghai-to-produce-toys-for-cctv-cartoons.html By: Joanne Lau An H5N1 related case was discovered on February 25th in Shanwei, a city to the south of Shantou. The patient, a 44 year-old woman from Sichuan province, died as a result of the disease. She had worked at a brick factory in Haifeng County, Shanwei City. A report ... http://myshantou.net/bird-flu-case-in-shanwei.html By: Bob Fu A torch relay ceremony for the Beijing Olympic Games will take place on May 10th in Shantou. Yesterday the route of the ceremony was announced by the Shantou government. 208 torch bearers will carry the torch through downtown. Performances will be held at Railway Station Park, City Swimming pool, ... http://myshantou.net/oylmpic-torch-through-shantou-on-may-10th.html Two new links have appeared in the links column of this webpage, Have You Eaten Yet? and a Food Writing Class blog. Both blogs are all about food in Shantou. Shantou is renowned for its Chaoshan cuisine, but the blogs go into all aspects of eating in Shantou -- recent posts ... http://myshantou.net/shantou-food-blogs.html By: Yamaha Gong A ceremony to mark the "Chinese Olympic Traveling Year" will be held in Shantou on March 2nd in the square in front of Shantou city swimming pool. At the same time, one thousand bicycle-riders will take part in a bicycle riding competition during the ceremony. The 2008 Chinese Olympic ... http://myshantou.net/olympic-ceremony-and-bike-ride-on-sunday.html