What Flavor is this Toothpaste? | China Expat – Humour

Now that the firecrackers have been fired and the leftover dumplings dumped, many Chinese netizens are starting to feel the dreaded New Year’s hangover (and so are their wallets).

John is a recent college graduate who has taken his humanities degree and fled the bad American economy for the great adventure of teaching ESL in China. His stomach gets in an argument with some backstreet food, and loses.

Badly.

A tongue-in-cheek look at the skills necessary to drive in China. Tips and tricks to navigating the daily Chinese traffic on a scooter or motorcycle. Even car drivers with nerves of steel may benefit from the information contained in this short article.

He is an American. He names himself Mike on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging service which combines features of Twitter and Facebook and has 90 million users. He has recently come to China. That’s all we know about him so far. An average Joe who love and seek adventure in the Middle Kingdom, just like tens of thousands of his fellow countrymen.