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6 Weird Chinese Foods We Learned to Love(And one that wasn't quite for us)

Cooked softshell turtle served on a plate with red chilies and other vegetables

There are a lot of weird Chinese foods. I’ve heard of people eating scorpions, snakes and spiders in China. Truth be told, however, when we lived there for 3 years we didn’t see so much of these stranger foods. Admittedly, […]

January 24, 2018January 31, 2019 Chris BehrsinAsia, Living Abroad, Food, History and Culture
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How I achieved 96% in my HSK 3 Chinese ExamHow I improved my reading, listening, and speaking and how you can too

Ola and Michelle Talking in Putian

HSK stands for Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (汉语水平考试). It’s a standard Chinese language test with 6 levels. HSK 1 is the lowest and HSK 6 the highest. HSK 3 comes somewhere in the middle. In the post I explain what I […]

March 24, 2017February 19, 2019 Ola JagielskaLanguages and Interactions, Asia
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In Search of the South Shaolin TempleThe birthplace of south Chinese martial arts

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South Shaolin Temple… Never heard of it? If you’ve not heard of the South Shaolin Temple, you may have heard of the North Shaolin Temple (Shaolin Monastery) in Henan. But few have heard of its little brother, the South Shaolin Temple […]

February 28, 2017February 1, 2019 Chris BehrsinAsia, Travel Stories
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