How balsamic vinegar nearly just killed me....

Food and eating is the main social thing here for Chinese. I've never seen a city with so much choice, and with the Olympics coming, it's getting to be my favorite city in the world.

Watch Discovery Channel, they show all the buildings they are creating for the Olympics. I work next door to the new CCTV skyscraper (2 leaning towers with a bridge...looks mental!), a first in engineering. And at my g/fs house, i can see the "birdsnest" stadium and swimming centre. The swimming centre is immense and a world 1st. It's built based on the basics of mother natures consructions, and is made of bubbles in the middle.

I'm a lucky guy right now. There more construction going on in Beijing this year than in the entire of Europe. Immense!

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Do they use MSG, or is that just a special treat for us?

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They use MSG, but all food is cooked to order so ust tell them not. So you know, MSG is better for you than salt. I'll try to find the article...hang on..

I watched Paul Merton's tour of China. China looks great - if a little crazy.

yeah mate, the place is mental. But hard to stereotype like that. It's like saying people in Spain are the same as Brits. It's that large a place, each province has it's own culture/food/clothing...and it's so vastly different. And, you see mainly the north and east and south coast only (the developed area). More than half live in the countryside (the west/central) and some have never seen a phone/white guy.)

People in Shanghai are totally different to people in BJ. They say SH people are a lot like londoners. Ie ....we are not from England, we are from SH. I'm lucky wiht my job i get to research chinese culture and travel alot.

I love England, but it's sooo boring and predictable.AND EXPENSIVE. And there's a lot of money to be made here, be you a english teacher, business analyst, software engineer.

If anyone on here ever wanted to visit, we have a spare room. YOu can get flights from UK from 300 quid up, and if you bring 100 quid for a month, you'd go home with change.

My g/f has a 4 bedroom apartment, 2 lounges, kitchen, 3 toilets, cleaner for life!, 2 offices, 4 balconies, all for the pricely sum of 40,000 pounds.

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I watched Paul Merton's tour of China. China looks great - if a little crazy.

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I saw this also thanks to file sharing! He did show the crazy side, and i think that was the point.

Everyone that comes here never wants to go home. Why would you? Lots of foreigners so cant get lonely, cheap as hell, more technologically advanced than Europe, soo much culture, friendly people, best kinds of food at best prices, police cant arrest you (they can...but it'd take a lot), great wages for foreigners. My mate came over and didn't get as much as h did in UK, but saves about 80% of his salary every month. In uk, he was always skint.

I am lucky, i have a great job and good set of friends. ML and I went to a meal the other night and on our table we had Afghans, Italians, Colombians, Ozzies, Japs, Chinese, Koreans, Norwegians etc etc around the table. And they are our friends!

And, to all you pot-heads in UK, the weed is better than any of that "superskunk" you think is the best thing in the world. This place borders Afghanistan, next to Thailand/Laos/Pakistan/India. And it's a 10th of the price. I'm told.:yup:

Why would you press a fire alarm when you were cooking. That seems a bit mental if there wasn't a fire. Seems like you caused this whole fiascotic debacle yourself.

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Why would you press a fire alarm when you were cooking. That seems a bit mental if there wasn't a fire. Seems like you caused this whole fiascotic debacle yourself.

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Ok smart arse...the SMOKE alarm set off. i tried to turn that off, but it had no button.

I notice your name is fromage pas....are you French? I love you guys!!

Excuse my misuse of words.

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Originally Posted by Fromagepas

Why would you press a fire alarm when you were cooking. That seems a bit mental if there wasn't a fire. Seems like you caused this whole fiascotic debacle yourself.

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Ok smart arse...the SMOKE alarm set off. i tried to turn that off, but it had no button.

I notice your name is fromage pas....are you French? I love you guys!!

Excuse my misuse of words.

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Something about buttons being a turn-off, was that it.

absolutely. though, not all. ;)