Cup noodle fans should think twice when booking holidays in the Maldives, according to several Chinese travel agencies. Some luxury resorts have stopped providing Chinese guests with hot water to prevent them from skipping meals and room service in favor of cup noodles.
One even allegedly coined a new interpretation for “CN” – the acronym of “China”: cup noodle, as reported by the SCMP.
Another complaint is that Chinese tourists sometimes cook food in the water heaters (including crabs) and ruin the heaters.
Chinese tourists often fail to try out any “foreign food” preferring the (bad) cup noodles. They should learn to eat other food. Just imagine I stay here in Beijing and refuse to eat Chinese “ugly food”, accepting only Belgian fries and steaks, and of course a Camembert. How insulted the Chinese hosts would be. I am now more Chinese than the average Chinese: I love all the different cuisines here, but Chinese stick often to “their” food only and can be so damned fussy (I am from XYZ and we don’t eat rice, spicy food, beef, etc.). Things are changing slowly, as I see the many Chinese now eating out in Western restaurants (and visibly enjoying it). But we still have too many “farmers-eating-noodles-only”. Many Chinese have really closed minds for other cultures.
Letting Steam Off
Jackie Chan continues to make waves
Actor Jackie Chan says it’s time China got tough about upholding the law. The actor comes regularly in the news for his remarks, his frequent advertising stunts and even being seen using a military car.
At least here Jackie Chan is right (he made a similar remark years ago that I quote in my seminars). As Chinese people generally speaking have zero respect for laws and regulations, only enforcement works. Singapore, with all its ethnic Chinese had no choice either and became a police state. As I explain to first-time visitors to Beijing, if you want to understand Chinese mentality, forget Confucius. Stand at a traffic intersection, see how people have no regard for anything. Including throwing trash through their car windows.
Beijing has a new law prohibiting smoking in restaurants. While most foreign-managed restaurants respect the regulation, just walk into most other bars and restaurants where Chinese smoke as much as before.
Chinese new-rich talk crap
“Chinese billionaire: ‘People with lower education levels should be prohibited from giving birth'”
Chen Guangbiao sparks outrage on internet, 05 March, 2013, by Chris Luo (SCMP)
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1179512/chinese-billionaire-people-lower-education-levels-should-be-prohibited
Chen Guangbiao is a typical example of the odious “new rich” generation, looking down at fellow Chinese, not giving value to what those “uneducated” contribute to society (who is “servicing” him and his family?), bullying others. Recent scandals with those new-rich show a real ugly side of the new Chinese society, not even to mention how they behave in traffic. I feel very sad for this trend. it gives China a poor and undeserved image. Mr. Chen, I really despise people like you while I always try to be friendly to the “fuwuyuan”. And yes, let them have children.
U.S. politicians, supposed to lead the country
When one reads the following: Representative Paul C. Broun of Georgia, a former physician (whatever THAT means) said “Evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are lies straight from the pit of hell”, what can one expect from U.S. politicians?
We are in the 21st century, I thought. He joins a list of complete morons who say horrors like that. Well, some people elected them, so, they got what they wanted.
Fortunately, some others are more civilized.
I guess Broun does not believe men stepped on the moon too.
The Chinese government may at times be very annoying but some U.S. politicians suddenly make us feel good to be in China.
He surely reminds me of some other extremists. Dangerous people.
Where is the biggest office building in the world?
I first thought Global Times had it a bit mixed up.
Then I checked, and guess what.
The largest office building in the world is the Long’ao Building, Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, with 370,000 sqm. It is used by the city government.
The Pentagon counts 600,000 sqm totally but only 340,000 sqm is used as office. The second runner up is in Bucharest, Romania, the Palace of Parliament, 330,000 sqm, built by the megalomaniac dictator Ceausescu; I visited that place last year and it is indeed gigantic and… looks pretty similar to the Jinan government office building.
It is one of those excesses of local government in China and received a lot of criticism on the Chinese Internet. The building’s cost: US$640 million. Never mind poor kids who have no decent schools. The office space for the “leaders” is well above the Chinese government norms. The good thing is, people talk about it and even Global Times. But you wonder why nobody mentioned it earlier: the monstrosity was completed in 2007. It took the media five years to “discover” it.
See the original article: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/749633.shtml