Tag: Cold

  • Shanghai is Tropical, Part 2

    Shanghai is Tropical, Part 2

    Remember that delusional law that says every city south of the Yangtze River is Tropical and therefore needn’t have, say, indoor heating in public buildings or properly insulated flats? Yes, that one. I would like to take a moment to show you a few scenes from tropical Shanghai on the first day of 2011. Temperature…

  • Christmas Day Odyssey in Shanghai: A Quest for Doug’s Destiny

    So remember how I said my next post was going to be all about the Christmas Party at the tea house, and how it would contain all my much-better camera photos rather than my crappy, grainy phone photos? Yeah. I lied. My bad. Unfortunately, we went out today. And when I go out, I tend…