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Ah-Laan and I were on a train the other day, playing cards with dudes. Suddenly we were talking some seriously bad language …

Outcast 2. Traincast

SUNDAY: Finally! FINALLY!!!! My Book Online

Woo-hooo, after weeks, months and SO much hassle with the company I paid to reformat and spread my book (it’s now just in pdf exactly like the format I sent them and I had to email them for a week to even get the book cover up on this particular site – God only knows if there’s a cover on any sites) my book CHILLies! Sichuan Food Made Easy is now available from the electric internet!!!!

Finally finally finally. So if you’re interested in Sichuan food, I’d say, please buy it. If you’re not interested in cooking but love Sichuan food, just book a dinner at the old Lo Uk Tsuen Country Club. If you don’t have the eight people required for a weekend dinner- or lunch booking, just come to one of the ‘meet a stranger, eat Sichuan food and drink beer’ parties I arrange regularly.

You can also download the book directly from this site.

Oh hoi oh hoi, NOW I can be happy. Now I can go on holiday.

禮拜日 (Lai bai yat – Sunday)
禮拜 （lai bai – week)
月 (yut – month)
去旅行 (heui leoi haan – go on holiday)

Public Security Uncle On The Road

Yes, that Public Security Uncle, he does get around a bit.

Unfortunately an unfathomable tragedy happened: He lost his badge in a shrubbery incident just outside Santa Fe.

Good thing he had his trusty deputy Bronto with him, on holiday from his day job at YMCA:

Don’t Trust That Internet

Last year I went from Lanzhou to Xiahe, a Tibetan stronghold, by bus. I had read in a book about the Silk Road that this would involve an “eight hour hair-raising bus trip” and looked →

Day Trip To Tibet

Not far from Lanzhou, transport and travel hub of the north, is the small town of Xiahe, dominated by the large and imposing Labrang Monastery. Last time I went there the main drag (the only →

Lanzhou, King of the North

Despite the charms of the Chinese train and that to travel hopefully (and painfully) is better than … not at all, it’s always good to arrive when the destination is beautiful Lanzhou. It’s the most →

By Popular Demand (Journey Into the Hinterland)

.. an old podcast: A Sojourn in Shenzhen. Yes, one whole person has expressed interest in hearing it, so I must oblige. Also I happen to be going to Shenzhen again tomorrow as part of →

It’s So Close, I can Almost Feel Its Rancid Breath …

Yes, soon you’ll be able to download more than three hours of Canto magic from this very site!I met my computer expert friend yesterday behind the third toilet from the left, and handed over the →

Non-white IS The New Black

Oh, whoops, how did a burqa sneak in there? Must have been the word ‘black’. Anyway, so most of my students have the same complaint: No matter how good their Cantonese is, Hong Kong people →

дима: Ты лучше всех!

I’ve just come back from another Russian lesson with the excellent Dimitri. People: You think Cantonese is difficult – try Russian. Every word, I mean noun, adjective, verb and adverb, has hundreds of different forms. →

Next Year’s July 1st

So, last Friday, July 1st, I went to Victoria Park to check out the action and also make a podcast: Happy Jellyfish’s Outcast at 1st of July Extravaganza 2011 Oh, it was great. The carnival-like →

PODCAST!!!! Warning: Contains Interview With Longhair!

Friday I went to Victoria Park to see what the people are against this year. Many of them were very against Stephen Lam (林瑞麟）Lam Seui Leun, who they called a (something) dog. Not running dog, →

Farewell Naked Cantonese, Well Hello There … Name?

SO! That was the end of Naked Cantonese. Four years of laughter and tears, trying not to say “crap” on live radio, trials and tribulations, toilets and twits. Although I’ve only ever listened to one →