China my experience

Tianjin 2011 - Spring festival

2011-03-23T01:50:59-07:00

For my last trip in China, I have seen the Spring festival fireworks. Here is a video of them with the Tianjin TV tower in background.

One thing is sure, Chinese people are still fan of fireworks!

Chinese kitchen

2010-05-20T00:09:14-07:00

For those who already came to China, they approximatively knows how the kitchen looks like. That's not so clean but some people said that the special flavor or the Chinese food come from this.

I'm friend with workers from a Chinese restaurant just near my flat where I lived. One day, I asked them if I can enter in the kitchen to watch how they cook because I'm fan of Chinese food and I'm also very interesting about cooking.

I'm every time amazed by the time between you order your dish and you get it on your table, it's about 3 or 4 minutes. Actually, they pre-cooked everything, so they just have to make it warm and mix it.

By the way I advised you this restaurant, you will discover delicious and cheap Chinese food. If you go there, say that you know a french guy and you will get a discount.

The restaurant is on Wan De Zhuang Street, I will ask my friends to give me the number and update the post later. My roommate and I called it the "blue restaurant" because the shop sign is blue or "the canteen" because we ate there almost everyday. I don't even know the real name, something in Chinese... :)

Google's politic in China is going to change

2010-01-14T14:44:21-08:00

During the censorship is more and more present in China, Google, decide to do not still censor the results of the its search engine.

Indeed the Californian company face to many web attack these times, which came from China, as other twenty other big companies.

These attacks was mainly done to access to Gmail account owned by Chinese human rights activists.

Because of these attacks, the watching politic of beijing and the uncomfortable face to the law that Google have to respect, the decision to review the business operation have been announce by David Drummond, chief legal officer. In concrete terms, Google do no still want to accept to censor the search engine's results.

Of course, Google is aware that the search engine can be shutdown and potentially close the offices.

In my opinion I think that it's a very courageous decision and of worldwide importance. I'm wondering how the Chinese giant will react face to this. It's important to know that the Californian engine own 30% of the market against 60% for the Chinese one Baidu.com.

I imagine that the government will not change of position, China is not ready yet. However it's certainly a first step to a long and hard transition.

source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html

The biggest screen of Asia

2009-06-03T21:25:00-07:00

Presently, the biggest screen of Asia so of China is in Beijing. The size of it is 250*30m and is situate at "The place" the new shopping place of Beijing. You can see many animations like submarine or space scenes.

Caution, the screen shutdown at 10pm and sound animations stop at 9:30pm.

Sources: site officiel JO 2008

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The first Freeze in Tianjin

2009-06-03T07:20:07-07:00

Freeze,

I'm very fond of this event . It's very simple, a group of people meet in a place at an accurate time and stop moving during 5 minutes. After I have participate to the one of Toulouse and Paris I thought: "Why not do one in Tianjin?". With help of Stéphane and Shen Si we have done it, just have a look on the result:

The Freeze happenned in two times. First we have done it on the bridge which cross the Nanjing road, and then on the Binjiang Avenue ("Golden street"). If you want to participate to a next Freeze in Tianjin, let's join the Facebook's group.

There is no play words with "The and", the video was made by a chinese guy who doesn't speak english.