User Comments - shanghai_helios
shanghai_helios
Posted on: Dogs and Wealth
January 20, 2010 at 9:59 AMThanks for the lesson. I wish I had this about 50 visits to the vet ago.
And after a couple of injections and a few pills, the usual recommendation from the Shanghai vet is that the dog not go outside and run on the grass. Completely unrealistic.
Amazing thing is that most people in China seem to recognize a 金毛犬, and know the name.
Posted on: 游孔庙
January 4, 2010 at 11:12 AM我们没有一个导游在孔庙或孔府.我们只买一本简单的书介绍这两个地方.我儿子在杏谈假装给我们一堂课.在大成殿我们写了许愿牌.
可是,在孔林,我花了10块钱雇佣一个导游.这个人嫁了孔家的,所以她有权利埋在那边.她说孔林有240,000人埋在那边.
Posted on: 游孔庙
January 4, 2010 at 10:32 AM这么巧！ 我们刚刚去过曲阜。看了孔府,孔庙,孔林.
Posted on: I Want a Thick Blanket
December 15, 2009 at 10:56 AMChangye, usually there is a choice of "厚 (thick)" or "薄 (bao)" when ordering a pizza in Shanghai. There are a few places that specialize in 薄 (bao) pizza, such as the aptly-named New York Style Pizza.
Jenny, you had a show a couple of years ago about ordering Chinese take-out. How about a show on ordering Western food for delivery in Shanghai, such as using Sherpas?
Posted on: I Want a Thick Blanket
December 15, 2009 at 4:21 AMThe most practical and often use of hou and bao for some people may be when ordering a pizza over the phone.
Posted on: Skiing, Not Ice Skating
December 11, 2009 at 4:38 AMYabuli has two main resorts, and a bunch of rope tow type places. Sun Mountain is good, with new modern lifts, equipment, and a lodge. Google the webpage.
The PRC national team practices at the other place, and the runs are good. It is where the World Winter University Games were held last year, the Asian Winter Games in the past, and where China wants to hold the Winter Olympics.
The train from Harbin stops at the bottom of the mountain, so getting there is easy.
The bottom of the ski areas are a bit chaotic with hundreds of people trying skiing for just a couple of hours. You can get ski or snow board lessons.
There are also tons of tourists bused in to take the lifts up to top of the mountain. More tourists than actual skiiers, which means the mountain is actually free of skiers and the runs are wide open. No lift lines. But the resorts make more money off these tourists so they had closed the top lift. Thus, you end up spending all day on the mid-mountain lift, that is, between the tourists sight-seeing at the top and the beginers at the bottom.
And yes, there are local Heilongjiang ski bums at these places.
Posted on: Skiing, Not Ice Skating
December 10, 2009 at 1:09 AMIn addition to listening in the Alps, Chinesepod users could also listen to the lessons on the slopes here. Yabuli is fairly good.
Anybody been to Wanlong and the new Italian-invested resort next to it?
Posted on: Choosing a New Pair of Glasses
January 29, 2010 at 2:08 AM好的话题
怎么说：
"designer frames" (What the salesperson in the dialogue appears to be trying to sell)
"bifocals"
"no-line bifocals"
And how to describe the adjusting of the frames to fit the wearer's face (and especially nose)?
谢谢