Leicester (lɛstər/ les-tər) isn’t exactly on the global culinary map. It’s barely on any map at […]
Last weekend, we borrowed a car from our crunchy granola car-share group in Leicester and drove […]
For those of you used to my usual summer missives replete with food porn photos and […]
After a few months’ hiatus from my ongoing whirlwind Tour de Chine (the Academic Route), […]
Over the past decade or two, I’ve become quite adept at rolling with the punches. Most […]
This is one of those times when I have, in theory, at least 4 blog posts […]
The first time I went to Hefei, the glorious provincial capital of ayi-central Anhui, about 3 or 4 years […]
I often (well, once every few months, which is technically often in geological terms) get emails […]
I’m not just here to give you completely useless information about China, no. Every so often, […]
As you may know, my Super Secret job with the linguistic CIA sends me all over […]
I’ve been on a bit of a ‘zhou bender in the past month, flitting around the […]
And by impractical, I really mean it this time. I have absolutely no information that might […]