And now news of a barbecue of a different, and much more solemn and purposeful nature - I received word late yesterday from several friends that there will be an emergency fundraising BBQ for their friend Xiao Hua, whom was the victim of a hit and run here in Suzhou on Sunday and is now [...]
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Tagged with: bbq • fundraiser • Suzhou • suzhou bookworm • xiao hua |
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Being that this blog has been around for a while now, and that it consistently lists at the top of the search results for many things “Suzhou”, I tend to get my fair share of e-mails from readers or random passers-by.
Most of these are e-mails from folks moving to Suzhou, or China in general, and [...]
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Tagged with: e-mail • expats in china • Suzhou |
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As I mentioned a couple weeks back, we’re moving to a new apartment at the end of the month.
As it is fully furnished (I’ve yet to rent an apartment here that isn’t - though some call into question the definition of “fully”), yesterday we had to head over to the new place and meet with [...]
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Tagged with: chinese apartments • industrial park • renting in china • sip • Suzhou |
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I swear, this town gets a little bit more livable every day.
I mean, we’ve got an Irish Pub that serves Guinness on tap, we’ve got one, two, three places that I can get a taco, we’ve a cafe/bookshop/lending library loaded to the rafters with English-language books, we’ve got an English-language movie cinema playing Iron Man, [...]
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Tagged with: bookworm • culture • entertainment • music • music festival • Suzhou |
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Suzhou’s newest hot spot is undeniably The Bookworm. Part café, part library, part restaurant, part bar and part bookshop; it’s not hard to see why the place has quickly become a refuge for many a Suzhou expat.
On top of its boatload of English-language books, the cozy two-storey canal-side venue now has the distinction of bringing [...]
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Tagged with: bookworm • culture • literary festival • Suzhou |
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