Blog · Dominik Mayer · Products, Asia, Productivity

The story of my life in China is here.

Construction Site on Siping Road

Construction site on Siping Road
Construction site on Siping Road

I think the construction of a new metro line would look different in Germany.

Another Day in Paradise

Chinese food

Food from the International Students Cafeteria. The lower one was quite good but I finally realized that I don’t like the egg and tomato thing which seems to be some kind of Chinese national dish.

Tongji
International School of Tongji University

International School

Bike

My bike, attached to a tree.

Unknown Food

Chinese food

Maybe Mantou, maybe not.

Electric kettle
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My Landlady Cooked

And it was the first time that I’ve had enough Chinese food and couldn’t have eaten more.

Artifical Language

Why don’t I learn Lojban. Seems to be so much easier than Chinese.

Lift

When I wrote about my inability to communicate with some classmates Karl commented:

did you speak chinese..? ;)

Today I did. And it worked. We had kind of the same vocabulary. Mine was a bit smaller as I’m still trying to catch up. At least we could have the simplest form of a conversation. Wow.

85 Yuan

Shoe store

I needed cheap shoes to wear with a suit very fast. The shop was on my way home. I’ve never bought shoes that quickly, didn’t even try to bargain. Maybe that’s why he called me “pengyou”, friend, when I left. I didn’t understand much of the other things he said.

Shoes
Shoes

(No) Meat

Chinese Arabic food

More Chinese Arabic food. As hard to eat as the one before. They said it was without meat. Following the Chinese definition of vegetarian food: You don’t see the meat at first glance, you find it when you’ve eaten half the food. That was the time I stopped.

In the meantime they were doing something with a large piece of meat that was lying on top of a cardboard on the ground.

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Bad Smell

Yesterday I bought noodles at the noodle man’s. But the noodle man himself wasn’t there so another one cooked them. When I put the empty box in my trash bin it started to smell very bad. Like animal oil. It didn’t help to open the window, I had to get rid of the thing. No more noodle man for now.

Cables

Shinla Levain

Our usual table was taken so we chose another one and Ouwen found himself sitting on a bunch of cables. He said he could even see some copper…

Two Teas I've Never Tried Before

Chocolate tea

Chocolate tea. Tasted like a mixture of tea and ice chocolate.

Honey lemon black tea

Honey lemon black tea. Taste very … delicious. ;-)