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If you follow the Chinese news there is hardly a week passing by without the Sichuanese digging up some old stuff. Today they found a Ming dynasty liquer brewery in Yibin.

@sean

the link works. I don't see that Chinese couldn't take part in this event. But I assume that a full promo would blow that event out of proportions.

Anyone up for Sssssiborghhhh on Sunday?

@oddball
4 years ago there was only the loft hostel no.4, then a year later the dodo's cafe opened and gained momentum when the loft's own cafe copenhagen closed down. Around 2 years ago there were like 1 place to the left and right of the loft no.4 hostel and opposite the morning bar opened.

"New" refers to as there is an accelerated growth of cafe/bars going on, with a new place starting out every other month NOW. So it's becoming a new bar/cafe street, and soon might appear on the tourist map just like the parallel kuan/zai/jinxiangzi. And some of the places literary just opened up at the time of shooting. And the bike was invented AFTER Christ.:)

@andrew L
Why has it not collected enough votes to even make it to the "runner up" at past reader's polls?

Better get your SUBS tickets NOW, next week it'll be too late!

Guess I will make it for this one at least. Anyone else?

Take Jacques Tati's "Traffic" or "Play Time" as a reference and you see how ugly the "architecture" and how retarded the urban planing were in Europe in the 60s. China's just repeating the transformation process the Western world went through a couple decades ago, unfortunately with a very flat learning curve.

This pandamania all the time is annoying. The Japanese pay an annual fee of 79 million yuan for their 2 new pandas, which works out at RMB5000 an hour per beast!

I see crazy qunar deals for RMB38 Chengdu to Chongqing morning flight and if I'm not wrong this promo also includes 1 night @ hotel for the next two weeks can't beat that!

http://flight.qunar.com/[...]

@Joseph Monti

Sometimes our wishes and dreams come true.

@Marky
Yes you can! But you have to present an ID to buy a return ticket.

10 days for that with the evidence on video? I'm pretty sure anywhere else in the world he'd spend months in jail at least.

But it's in a way comforting to see that sometimes(!) China's judges can be quite moderate and reasonable.

@spandolf
you def. have a point that at RMB1-2 the bus fare is not the problem

If at all it's just part of a whole package
Hasselt in Belgium shows how
http://en.wikipedia.org/[...]
but it's not the only place
http://en.wikipedia.org/[...]

However
"Consistent market research and experience over the last 50 years in Europe and North America shows that car commuters are willing to transfer some trips to rail-based public transport but not to buses. Typically light rail systems attract between 30 and 40% of their patronage from former car trips. Rapid transit bus systems attract less than 5% of trips from cars, less than the variability of traffic."
http://www.claverton-energy.com/[...]
so my favorite public transport is still the low-floor tram

"Son-in-law Night"???
What are they smoking over there? I want some!

OMG, and I thought Chengdu was cold this year!
http://www.wunderground.com/[...]

I will def. check it out, i'm thinking next week. c u

A new 15h overnight train to Beijing is also starting tomorrow.
D318
15:50 departure
7:30 arrival the next day,
15h 40 min travel time
also stops in Nanchong
http://cd.qq.com/a/20110110/000045.htm

So who of the original crew is still in? Larry?

@purple
I might stick my head out for King lychee on sat

fine i'm gonna head down there to the dark corner after the countdown and feed the stocked zombies with champagne:)

anyways, Happy New Year's!