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I’m not pretending that I made up the concept of strange English usage in Asia (although I did make up the word Chinglism)…but sometimes the old ideas are the best! Today, while bowling, I came across a girl who really, really must have liked the flower design on the front [...]

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Before arriving in China, I read that bowling was MASSIVE here. Huge. Everyone does it. I’d seen numbers thrown around about 15,000 lanes across Shanghai…well they must be pretty well hidden.
After a little research, we found a couple of places which match our needs: Cheap drinks, nice lanes, pool tables and those machines that you [...]

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We really should have been suspicious about Muse. Sure, it’s a trendy, classy place…popular Chinese and foreigners alike…sure it has cocktail waiters juggling with flaming bottles…but when the DJ is billed as ‘The King of Snoop Dog’, you know something’s up.
Inside it was packed packed packed full of people…with just enough room to squeeze past [...]

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So we’d been planning all night how great Friday night was going to be. A world-supreme-master-champion DJ from Japan (DJ CoMa) was coming to a club called The Shelter (which we had never visited before), so we decided to splash out on a few beers at our place first. 3 each (and a lot [...]

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China’s currency is the RMB or Ren Min Bi. You can get around 14RMB for every £1 you exchange…and as any travel guide will tell you, it’s very important to always remember the relative value of something that you’re buying on your trip…and with this in mind I’ve been doing a lot of calculations in [...]

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