Man in the Mooncake

The other day was mooncake festival day, the most important day of the autumn festival that for some reason doesn’t start until next week. So everyone buys tons of these little stuffed pastries and they give them away to friends, business partners and family. Disclosure: I have never actually eaten a mooncake (update: I tried [...]

My Apartment is Sinking

I knew when I first rented here that problems would arise. I knew this because I had read about so many other people have problems with their apartments here. It was statistically impossible for nothing to go wrong. Having nothing go wrong in this country would be like spontaneously turning into an apple pie and [...]