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I’m just collecting some quotes I’ve read recently on the differences between the two. from portrait of an LBX Speaking of laowai, that’s the other word that gets our goat. Laowai — along with dialectical equivalents: lowei, waigolo, gueilo, etc. — means “foreigner,” but it is the slang way of saying it compared with the [...]

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I’m finally beginning to feel recovered from the havok being unleashed upon my sleep schedule by the World Cup. Games at 2:30 AM are especially difficult for me to watch because I don’t like staying awake straight through to 4:30 in the morning, but I also can’t really bring myself to go to sleep early [...]

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I’ve been talking with a couple friends of mine about reading speed a lot. My friend Ani has been working on this side project, readfa.st (I have no idea if it’s supposed to be readfa.st or read fast or Read Fast or readfast or what, I’m sure he/they will figure it out eventually). As such [...]

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On my last trip to NY from Beijing I met a guy in the airport headed to Boston. We chatted a bit in the line waiting to check in, and then later on the plane we exchanged contact info. I’ve been going back and forth with him on emails and some of the questions he’s [...]

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Continuing my habit of posting my Quora answers as blog posts: Where are the best Japanese restaurants in Beijing? In terms of "where" geographically, my guess would be up near Anjialou, where I understand there to be a higher density of Japanese expats. Up there is a little pocket of a bunch of Japanese restaurants, [...]

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