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A Blog for the expats in Yantai

Entries for the ‘Experience Sharing’ Category

A New Author, a New Environment: Greetings from Tai

Hi, this is Tai from the TsundereStorm blog and I will be writing in Mincius for the next few months. When the owner of this blog, Nual, moved to Canada he somehow managed to meet my parents and they helped facilitated some of the issues that he had as a foreigner in Toronto. Now [...]

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10 Ways to Spend Downtime in China — No.2 the Forbidden City

The Forbidden City in the central part of Beijing is right next to Tiananmen Square. The emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties lived there. The Great Hall of the People and Mao’s mausoleum are on the square as well. You can wind your way through some impressive imperial buildings and the grounds.

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10 Ways to Spend Downtime in China — No.1 Climb the Great Wall

At nearly 4,000 miles long, the Great Wall is the longest humanmade structure in the world. It has a long history, too — the Chinese began building walls on their borders more than 2,000 years ago. In some sections, you can take a gondola, ride a “toboggan”, or even zip-line down from the Great Wall.

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Manners on the Table

Shandong province is the source of Chinese culture and it’s also the source of Chinese alcohol. Every city has its own alcohol brand. Yantai’s ahcohol brand is called Yantai Guniang. Yantai has its own beer brand too. Although the most famous alcohol brand of Yantai is Changyu. Anyway, Chinese like to do business in [...]

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Dating Chinese Girl for Dummies

To be honest, It’s easy to hook up with Chinese girls for those foreigners, especially for those people who have big nose and blue eyes. Why? Because Chinese just don’t see enough foreigners. They might easy to hook up with but they are hard to maintain(or maybe you don’t want to last long). Anyway, here [...]

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“Must Have” Programs for Expats

As you are in China, the most common used computer programs that you need probably are dictionary and Chinese input.  Now introducing two free programs “google Chinese input” and “ICIBA”(dictionary).

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October 1st National Day — A plan for seven days trip

Since the National Day is a 7-days holiday, it’s time to plan a long distance trip. Beijing would be the best choice.

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October 1st National Day — A plan for one day trip

Don’t have any plans for the 7 days holiday?  Here are a few tourism places i would recommend you.  Most of them are within 2 hours drive, maybe shorter.

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This Sunday, Mid-Autumn Festival

This Sunday is Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival. It’s the 2nd biggest festival of China. (first is Spring Festival aslo known as Lunar Festival) What do Chinese do during the Mid-Autumn Festival?

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First day in Yantai

What did you do in your first day of yantai? I am sure you remember it :) For the newcomers, i would recommend:
First of all, banking. Yeah, first thing i would recommend you do is open a Chinese bank account. There are 4 major Chinese banks.
Bank of China: It has the largest reserve for [...]

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