Sweet & Sour

SWEET

I absolutely love that China seems to rejoice in dispensing as much beer as they can for as cheap as possible. For the price of a six-pack back home I can buy 28 bottles of the local brew. And these ain't no pansy-sized Heinekens, but rather big 620+ ml monster bottles.

Posted on www.thehumannaught.com

SOUR

Taxis - their musty smell in winter and the surly drivers all year long - tops the list of complaints in Beijing, but in Shanghai, it's the fight just to get a cab that has expats seeing red. Even when you find a taxi your seat gets stolen in a flash. I think my friend basically said it right, "The person that gets the taxi is the person with the first ass on the seat."

Desmond Ng, quoted in www.cityweekend.com.cn

(China Daily 08/17/2009 page10)