Food in China

I don't want to write about Chinese cuisine.
You all know that it is very old, very good, very diverse... blablabla.

I only want to tell you what I had for lunch:
Húsleves és tojásos lecsó egy adag rizzsel.
Broth and a lecsó with a portion of rice.
Real Magyar dishes at a small Uygur restaurant in Shanghai...
I paid 8 RMB, it's 80 Cent, 200 Forint.

In Magyaristan you pay more nowadays.

Chinese internet café

At the moment I am sitting in the "East B@r" in Shanghai, an internet café with around 100 computers. Of course they have air conditioning, at least 5 or 6 devices... More surpisingly the owners of this place are also in possession of a several number of cockroaches and less surprisingly they have no English speaking staff.
It is dark in here. One third of the Chinese guys is doing daytrade, one third of them is playing World of Warcraft, the rest is doing "normal" stuff. A temple of China's young internet addicts.
Very interesting.

Air conditioning in China

There is one pretty annoying thing in China: air conditioning.
The Chinese just don't get it - AC is unnatural, unhealthy and a waste of energy.
Air conditioners are everywhere... In two weeks I got two colds, that's not a bad stat.
It's terrible to think about how much energy is wasted through 1 billion Chinese air conditioning systems...
I admire the Japanese for their Cool Biz campaign.
They really need it... A Japanese guy programmed the AC system in our hostel room to produce a temperatur of 12 degree Celsius.

Sok minden és semmi

Yo.

I moved to a new place, because I needed a change. It was just too comfortable in my hotel... Now I pay five times less than before, but on the other hand I am surrounded by backpackers.

I spent the past few days in 798, often accompanied by Noi Morei or other (street) artists. It is incredible how much they construct there... not only infrastructure, also huge show rooms everywhere. I don't really think that there is the need for so many places, but hey!, China is a big country and it is cheap to make something there.

Tomorrow the Hungarian Cultural Season begins with an opening concert in the Forbidden City. I got a ticket from the Hungarian Embassy. Now I am going to the vernissage of the Anish Kapoor exhibition in 798.

Here are some new pics:

Second entry

Why the hell would I write a first entry?
I'll start with a second one... it sounds better.

"Discreet diarrhoea" is my fifth blog (also a good number), I think it is some kind of mysterious power which forces thee to mention the number of never-kept weblogs.

Dear friends:
I am in Budapest right now, tomorrow I am going to travel to Berlin.
According to my plans I'll visit Hamburg this weekend and China next week for a month... Deo volente, of course.

I have another important announcement to make.
I will keep this weblog in English (I could do it in Hungarian or German also, maybe even better). The reason is obvious: English is my own uneasy compromise with global society.

Pax et bonum!

First entry