Right after we came back from winter holiday, whole Netherlands was excited with Elfstedentocht (Eleven Cities Tour). TV, Radio, Newspaper and wherever you go, people were talking about it.
When canals, rivers and lake of 11 cities in Friesland province freezes, then world’s largest speed skating competition takes place. According to Joop, not everyone but only [...]
Entries Tagged as 'culture'
Elfstedentocht & Alternative in Weißensee
February 11th, 2012 · 2 Comments
Tags: TheNetherlands · culture
Nice Chinese Hotpot place in Shanghai
September 10th, 2011 · No Comments
When guest visiting your place, being a host is not easy at all. Showing scenic places is pretty easy but when it comes to restaurant, i find it bit of headache. Have to consider price range, place, hygiene level, taste/characteristic of food and service while able to show Chinese culture.
Here is one nice restaurant to [...]
Kids are learning ‘Ni-Hao’ now
August 21st, 2011 · No Comments
I remember when I was young, my mom made me watch lots of Walt Disney movies and sesame street videos, hoping that it would help me to learn English quickly. I think i watched more Disney cartoon more than Korean cartoon. When I reached high school, there were options for 2nd language course. Options were [...]
Little Holland in Shanghai
March 27th, 2011 · 4 Comments
Spring has finally started.
As it’s sin to stay inside the house with beautiful weather and we started to miss The Netherlands, we decided to look for Dutch town in Shanghai.
Holland village is situated in Wai Gao Qiao (外高桥), North part of Shanghai neary by Huang pu river. It can be reached by subway line 6 [...]
Tags: China · TheNetherlands · culture
Useful websites in China
March 26th, 2011 · No Comments
About year and a half in Shanghai, I feel much comfortable browsing Chinese website, thought google translate still help most of times. Here I want to share some of useful and popular website in China.
Search engine
http://www.baidu.com/
Baidu is google of China
http://www.sina.com.cn/
Sina is getting more popular with blog and twitter concept.
Movies/ Videos
I love tudou (it means potato). [...]
Weight of book DOES matter!
March 13th, 2011 · No Comments
Ever since we moved to Hong Mei Rd, I rarely go to city center. So when I had appointment in people square today, at first I was feeling bit lazy but gradually started to wonder how this place has changed since last time. (Probably 6months ago)
After nice lunch, my friend Yvonne and I decided to [...]
Why failed in China?
February 23rd, 2011 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
Why do Asian follow moon calendar?
February 18th, 2011 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
Flower market in Shanghai
February 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment
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
How to make Korean spicy chicken soup?
February 10th, 2011 · No Comments
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 [...]





