Recently I started to feel that food prices have went up really high. Then I started wonder if it has really went up or just receiving news regarding inflation too much that I feel it’s getting expensive.
So I decided to make comparison with last year (exactly 2009. Dec)
The result was very surprising!
Item
2009. 12
2011. 02
2 paprika
15RMB
8.4RMB
2 onion
3.5RMB
1 pumpkin
2.8RMB
4 [...]
Tags: China
Yesterday during the CS lecture (Customer Service) I got to know some interesting stories, which was failed business story in China. Especially as Shanghai is land of opportunity many of people come to Shanghai, dreaming that they would be successful with their ideas. There are about 65000 Korean living in Shanghai and I bet more [...]
Should have wrote this blog yesterday (Feb, 17), which was 2011, ‘Great Full Moon day’ (also called ‘Daeboreum’). Anyhow it’s better late than never.
Last night, fireworks were all over the Shanghai sky once again. My first thought was; ‘Ah! Chinese people are probably clearing off the remain fireworks from Spring festival.’ But later [...]
Nice sunny weekend but sadly my husband had to go to work. But I would not let myself stuck in the house in such a nice weather. It’s a sin, if I do!
So I decided to go to flower market, perfect place to feel spring. Plus last Christmas I got mustard & watercress and tulip [...]
Tags: China · Life style · culture
Today’s menu is Korean fried chicken & potato soup!
Called ‘닭볶음탕/ Dak bokkeumtang’
What to prepare?
Chicken, Potato 2~3, Half onion, one carrot, 2 green onion
Sauce: Korean red pepper sauce 1 big table spoon, 4 table spoon of red pepper powder, 2 table spoon of soi sauce, 1 table spoon of alchole, 1.5 table spoon of starch syrup, 1/2 [...]
I always wondered how foreign company define boundary between bribery and presents. Would Western culture able to understand concept of gift giving in Asia?
Unexpectedly this subject brought in to the surface during the seminar that I attend few weeks ago in Korea, Internal Control Assessment Certification Program. Just like the title, it was mainly about [...]
This is my first New Year after I got married and sadly my husband and I are so far away from either my family or husband’s family. I miss family noisy, smell of cooks even a pile of dishes in the sink waiting for me, which in the past I did not value so much. [...]
It’s my first New Year in China.
Last year I only saw film of Joop how Chinese New Year is loud. But this time I got to feel it myself.
Last night with Joop and nice friends, we head to Hongmei Road thinking that it would be the most likely place where open shops are, plus little [...]
