After two visits to China, i have developed a paradox mixture of love and hate feelings for this mystery land. If such inferiority can be named literally then i would simply call it the "china complex".
The 'love' part of the China complex can be easily understand. As a Malaysian, we are born with innate food-loving nature. Its in our genetic. Frankly, you can never find better Chinese food other than in China. The taste is flawlessly exquisite, the tangling spiciness of the hua jiao, the saltiness of the fermented black beans, the gorgeous taste of cucumber with more than flavor water, bead curd tasting of fresh soy, pungent chinese chives, steamed bao oozing pork fats from their swirling top knots etc.
yum, yum, yum...
The 'love' part of the China complex can be easily understand. As a Malaysian, we are born with innate food-loving nature. Its in our genetic. Frankly, you can never find better Chinese food other than in China. The taste is flawlessly exquisite, the tangling spiciness of the hua jiao, the saltiness of the fermented black beans, the gorgeous taste of cucumber with more than flavor water, bead curd tasting of fresh soy, pungent chinese chives, steamed bao oozing pork fats from their swirling top knots etc.
yum, yum, yum...
Business meeting is nothing but eating, eating and eating
Anyway, i will dedicate a separate full post to my culinary experience in China.
Ok, now come to the 'hate' part of my China Complex.
Point 1: China internet censorship
Surfing internet using the China Broadband services is such a pain. Before i came to China, i have been warned by many that the internet police in China 'neutralize' (ahem*terminate*ahem) anti government or religious online opinion and comments. In fact, the critical comments which appearing on internet forum, blogs and major networking portals such as Sina and Xiaonei usually are erased within minutes.
Well ... being China, its understandable. BUT.... They've even block my blogspot!!
Does my blog looks like a threat to their national security? Maybe my harmless grumbles and U rated jokes is a poison to the mind of their good citizen. Never in my life i was hit by so many "Page Load Error" message while surfing the internet. I must solute the China government or rather the internet police for their highest efficiency.
Point 2: RUDE Taxi driver
I have no words to describe China taxi drivers but rude. They have no respect for the foreigners, they chased you out from the taxi when they don't know the address and they'll shout at 100 decibel when you try to exit through the left side of the car (anyway, just a reminder to those who plan to visit China, passenger are forbidden from opening the left door of the cab).
There is this particular incident happened during the trip which pissed the hell out of me. My colleague and I supposed to take a taxi from the hotel to go to Shanghai airport on the final day of our business trip. There were a row of taxis stopped in front of us and without thinking we went to board the taxi at the most front. During the process of loading our 10kg luggage into the car boot, we were suddenly surrounded by a crowd of 10++ taxi drivers who shouted at us loudly with native shanghai slang.
It was kinda scary when i think back, to be surrounded by the angry crowds while my Indian colleague was totally helpless as he don't understand a single word of Chinese. So its up to me to make the sense out of the whole situation and to get both of us out of it, in one piece. After listened to the crowd attentively again and again, i'd finally understood that the taxi which we've boarded actually cut the queue and the rest of the cab drivers who'd already waited there earlier were not happy. In order to calm the crowd, we have no choice but to unload our luggage and reload again to the next taxi.
All these while, the taxi driver who was accused of queue cutting was sitting coolly at the driver seat and no one give a heck about him.
SPEECHLESS....
Anyway, i'll continue in my next post about some weird weird habit of the shanghainese. Stay tuned.
Point 1: China internet censorship
Surfing internet using the China Broadband services is such a pain. Before i came to China, i have been warned by many that the internet police in China 'neutralize' (ahem*terminate*ahem) anti government or religious online opinion and comments. In fact, the critical comments which appearing on internet forum, blogs and major networking portals such as Sina and Xiaonei usually are erased within minutes.
Well ... being China, its understandable. BUT.... They've even block my blogspot!!
Does my blog looks like a threat to their national security? Maybe my harmless grumbles and U rated jokes is a poison to the mind of their good citizen. Never in my life i was hit by so many "Page Load Error" message while surfing the internet. I must solute the China government or rather the internet police for their highest efficiency.
Point 2: RUDE Taxi driver
I have no words to describe China taxi drivers but rude. They have no respect for the foreigners, they chased you out from the taxi when they don't know the address and they'll shout at 100 decibel when you try to exit through the left side of the car (anyway, just a reminder to those who plan to visit China, passenger are forbidden from opening the left door of the cab).
There is this particular incident happened during the trip which pissed the hell out of me. My colleague and I supposed to take a taxi from the hotel to go to Shanghai airport on the final day of our business trip. There were a row of taxis stopped in front of us and without thinking we went to board the taxi at the most front. During the process of loading our 10kg luggage into the car boot, we were suddenly surrounded by a crowd of 10++ taxi drivers who shouted at us loudly with native shanghai slang.
It was kinda scary when i think back, to be surrounded by the angry crowds while my Indian colleague was totally helpless as he don't understand a single word of Chinese. So its up to me to make the sense out of the whole situation and to get both of us out of it, in one piece. After listened to the crowd attentively again and again, i'd finally understood that the taxi which we've boarded actually cut the queue and the rest of the cab drivers who'd already waited there earlier were not happy. In order to calm the crowd, we have no choice but to unload our luggage and reload again to the next taxi.
All these while, the taxi driver who was accused of queue cutting was sitting coolly at the driver seat and no one give a heck about him.
SPEECHLESS....
Anyway, i'll continue in my next post about some weird weird habit of the shanghainese. Stay tuned.
3 comments:
ohhhh pls write abt what you experience in shanghai then i will write mine, i went to shanghai recently too and contracted the China Complex syndrom too :)
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