Eyes on China – A China travel Blog

Something about living in China gets under your skin. Whether it’s the job opportunities, friendly, helpful people or the awesome, chiseled rock faces inscribed with Chinese characters (Hanzi), I don’t know. But, living in a remote mountain village has brought about some unexpected changes to my complexion. Literally, something has caused a tremendous outbreak of [...]

Hunting for Chinese Spices
The Yangshuo market is situated at a major three way intersection in the downtown area, at a distance from the westernized Xijie and its shiny souvenirs. On one side of the intersection is a traditional restaurant with a wall-covering picture of several fluffy dogs that look like chow-chows. These cute, adorable [...]

Chengdu, a beautiful and idyllic city which is the capital city of Sichuan Province, has been endowed with a poetic name—-“the city of Rong”. “Rong” is the abbreviation of peony in ancient China. Peony, which is almost treated as a national flower by Chinese people, is regarded as a symbol of wealthy in China. So [...]

It is said that cole flowers only keep blooming for 4 weeks every year,and then people will cut the plant,while the coleseed will be used for making vegetable oil which is good for health.
Also the vegetable oil is aroung 6 RMB per kilo.We all agree it is cheaper than any other oil in China.

Day 3: Rickshaws and Rip-offs
It was the final day of our three-day May holiday trip in Zhejiang Province (浙江省) and we were heading out on a pre-8am public bus from Dongyang (东阳) to the “village” of Hengdian (横店). A 20-minute ride or so later and we were dropped off at the centre of a small [...]