Thoughts from provincial China

[fionnidhke]

... where provincial, of course, means everywhere that isn't Beijing. Y'know, those strange southern places where they speak Rustic Dialects (like Cantonese!) and don't know how to make proper fried egg pancakes

Comments

[foxfour]

netbar. such a better name than "internet cafe".

sounds wonderful. makes me want to read yet more chatwin.

[redswami]

There's just something weird about seeing "Bodhisattva" and "Guanyin" together. It's a dissonance kind of like trying to write devanagari with one hand and kanji with the other. Ack.

Also, cockroaches can be cute. I'm not sure they're cute when they're playing Counterstrike in a netbar, though (or, wait, were they watching Mean Girls as well?).