Hello, folks. Good to be back. With the exception of a brief appearance to share two videos as commentary on a special (political) day in th...

Apparently at least one aspect of my recent travel adventures raised some eyebrows, and amazingly it wasn't the duck-dog. In regards t...

Early Tuesday morning I was surprised when my phone's alarm woke me up at 5:10 a.m. It was supposed to wake me up a 5:00 a.m. Presumabl...

"Free meals" No readers have insisted to me that they expect a free lunch, but I still feel bad about the extreme lack of po...

After checking into my hotel the first night I arrived in Yulin, Guangxi, and before finding a special location , one of the first things I...

Yulin's First Crispy Skin Meat Restaurant on both sides of Xinmin Road While walking around Yulin on a Wednesday in May I stumbled...

Tomorrow is a special day in Yulin, Guangxi — the first and biggest day of the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival. And for the first time, ...

Yes Cuisine at Diwang Plaza in Jiangmen So many questions . . . Should I leap at the opportunity? Would I regret doing so the nex...

On Saturday in Hong Kong before the big holiday, I was hoping for some traditional fare. Fortunately, I came across a perfect option: the L...

This evening I had the grand idea of "I'll post a photo I took five years ago". In terms of a specific city, I couldn't r...

Most Americans would likely be surprised to learn that Thanksgiving is celebrated, even if just to a minor degree, in China. This isn't...

A woman selecting apples one weekday afternoon at the Carrefour in the Xinyue Dasin Metro-Mall (新悦大信新都会): A woman selecting tomatoes...

Fruit stand on Halloween night Although it wasn't too hard to find signs of the holiday on Halloween night at some shopping cente...

In past years I have shared Halloween-related scenes from cities such as Taipei in 2011 , Changsha in 2012 , Shaoguan in 2015 , Shenyang in...