Monthly Archives: October 2016

La Mien Hand-Pulled Noodles

Posted on October 31, 2016 by The Pearl

Not long after Rozy arrived in Shanghai we went together as a family, along with a work-colleague of Richard’s, Lucinda and Jenny her visiting daughter, to an evening session at the Chinese Cooking Workshop to learn to make La Mien hand-pulled noodles. … Continue reading →

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Carrying Poles

Posted on October 28, 2016 by The Pearl

Sometime last year I posted about our trip to Amoy in Fujian Province (Amoy in Fujian; Xiamen in Mandarin) with its large round houses and some of the pictures showed women selling fruit from baskets which they carry along on … Continue reading →

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The 3″ Golden Lotus

Posted on October 26, 2016 by The Pearl

This is a rather gruesome post.  If you can’t cope with human cruelty and what one women will do to her daughter in the name of beauty I suggest you skip this one. On 25th August this year I went with … Continue reading →

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Quilting Update

Posted on October 24, 2016 by The Pearl

I promised many moons ago that I would keep you up to date with my quilting group.  I confess I haven’t.  We meet every Thursday at a member’s apartment and promise to do at least 5 stitches in the four … Continue reading →

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Our Daughter Hits Shanghai

Posted on October 22, 2016 by The Pearl

It was over a year before our daughter Rosalind made it out to see us in Shanghai.  For the first half of our first year that we had been living as expats in China Rozy had been doing her final … Continue reading →

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An Auspicious Day

Posted on October 20, 2016 by The Pearl

On the 8th of September last year I was on my way to Carrefour to fetch some shopping . The 8th of the month is a very auspicious day here in China.  As here the number 8, 八 (bā in pinyin) is consider … Continue reading →

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China Never Ceases To Surprise

Posted on October 18, 2016 by The Pearl

As I have not really published very much since this time last year, my stories of Shanghai, are now necessarily going to be sent to you out of date and most probably of all out of sequence.  So from now on … Continue reading →

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A Year’s Worth Of Books

Posted on October 17, 2016 by The Pearl

Followers of this blog will know that I have not written for a long time. Below is the last blog post I wrote, but never published.   It will go some way to explain why I walked away from writing online about … Continue reading →

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