The guard at the door of our hotel on the campus of Renmin University likes to high-five Americans as they walk through.
Another guard, who sits in the hall leading back to the guestrooms, enjoys this conversation:
Guard: “Hello, how are you?”
Me: “Good. How are you?”
Guard: “Good.”
I just bought a box of “Pretz.” Yes, that’s a picture of a shrimp in the bottom left-hand corner of the box. Yes, these are shrimp-flavored pretzel sticks. No, I won’t share.
- Greg Bowers
Missouri student Mark Welsh is also maintaining a blog from Beijing. Here’s the link: http://beijingmark.blogspot.com/
Filed under: Chinese culture, Faculty posts, Food, Uncategorized
This could be a hard sell in Hanover!
You weren’t anywhere near the earthquake, were you? Also, glad to see you made it to China.
You’re right. I doubt shrimp pretzels would go over. They do smell funky.
And nope, not near the earthquake. And thanks, I’m glad to have made it to China.