China | Dominik Mayer – Products, Asia, Productivity

At School Again

Tongji

DHL

Tongji

Fodder

Tongji

They turned on the fountain.

Bananas?

Bananas?

Hot Pot

Hot Pot

Menu

Hot Pot

Sauces

Hot Pot
Hot Pot
Hot Pot
Hot Pot

The pot

Hot Pot

Small eggs

Hot Pot

And Now With Rain

Hongkou

Here’s the scene without rain. I haven’t been at the noodle man’s since I found out about the oil. And I also haven’t seen him. Where did he go?

With and Without

Chinese Food

Chinese food with meat, as you can easily see.

Chinese Food

Vegetarian food. According to the Chinese definition…

Heater

Heater in front of the cookshop.

Heater

Hanzi He Fayin

Chinese test tomorrow morning, I’m learning hanzi. It’s impossible. I can mostly recognize and read them and if I see one I know how to write it. But if I shall write one with given pinyin or on my own I’m totally lost.

And I still can’t memorize the tones, not to mention that even if I know the right ones I’m unable to pronounce them. Instead of “two yuan” (liǎng kuài) I say “cold weather” (liáng kuài) and my noodles (miàntiáo) tend to become sanitary napkins (miántiáo).

Coral Against the Golden Shield

When I stumbled upon Coral Content Distribution Network I thought it might help to view blocked pages in China. It does. Not always, but the German Wikipedia - not the English one - can be found as well as this blog.

You just need to append .nyud.net at the end of the URL to load it via Coral. For this site it’s http://thisandmine.com.nyud.net.

Tongji in the News

German news site Spiegel Online cites Tongji professor Xie Weida, deputy director of the Railway Institute who says it’s “unlikely” that China will buy the Maglev technology.

An English article can be found at The Earth Times.

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

My Landlady Cooked

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