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Dalian, China
Dec 2006
Our sincere apologies to friends who have not seen us update our blog for the longest time, and you've probably given up on this site. The last few months since July 2006 have been a little chaotic for us, deciding where to go next from Italy.

The Taiwan earthquake has also disrupted internet connections and have made me so frustrated just to check emails, let alone to upload photos and post new happenings on the blog.

So finally we here in Dalian, China. Antonio received this job offer in Dalian to set up a fine dining Mediterranean restaurant, the first in the city.

Dalian is a beautiful city, as what Bruce & Angie said. This is my first time in China and I was pleasantly surprised by the generally clean streets in this city. There is still one disgusting habit that Chinese cannot change, that is spitting. The government has taken steps to stop people from spitting in public, but they still do it.

Once I had a gluey spit missing my new boots by a few millimeters. It was from a young man, about my age, with his girlfriend. He casually just expelled phlegm as we walked out from one of the poshest shopping mall of Dalian, spitting has no class boundaries! So you can imagine me hopping through the streets to avoid stepping on gluey spit!

The other thing that amuses me is the translations. When going around some of the local shopping centres, we always manage to find some amusing signages. (see below)



I will continue to keep a look out for these funny signages and will post them online. I have so much more to post as well, photos from our last trip to Italy and more photos of Dalian. I promise I will keep this blog more active and will have more coming.

Ciao tutti.