One aspect of living in China that we really enjoy is how easy it is to recycle. There is no separating different bottles into different colored bins, driving an hour to a specialized recycling center in the next county over, and so on…

Here, many people make their living looking for recyclables. Not only that, they

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It’s Sunday.
You’ve got a craving.
For a bucket of chicken.
From The Chicken House.

Our fleet of electric chicken-cycles are on stand-by!

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor hail, nor cold hands, nor chicken-cycle thieves will keep us from serving you.

And when we run out of juice, we’ll joyously pedal that bucket of chicken to your doorstep.

We are the Chicken

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If you’ve never lived overseas, you probably don’t know the joy of improvisational cooking.

Take brown sugar for example.

In China, it’s called hong tang (“red sugar” 红糖), because it’s reddish in color when mixed with water. It comes in lighter shades similar to what you might see in the west. It also comes in a darker,

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Let’s talk about ovens.

OK!

Context: Chinese don’t bake. You don’t walk into someone’s home and smell chocolate chip cookies. You don’t see Mom’s bringing homemade birthday cupcakes to their children’s school. You don’t see casseroles! Baking for them is limited to the cakes or Chinese cookies they buy in the bakeries or grocery stores.

Baking is a

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Well, it’s Christmas in Yichang and Santa is decking all the doors. Over here,  Santa’s always have a little decoration in their beard such as this boat and dolphin. Festive!

Santa was rockin’ the town this year!

These snowmen were the main decoration at Walking Street.

We saw actual gingerbread houses in Aroma bakery for 35rmb ($5.13).

This Pizza

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