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A spice fiend’s dream

I traveled Korean airlines, and they gave these tubes of hot sauce for the Bibimbap. (Awww, snap) I tried to snag an extra one. I love spicy food. I might even be tempted to use it AS toothpaste… Perhaps its best I didn’t get one, huh?

Neato, a Skype store at the Incheon Airport in Seoul. They also had a free wifi zone from a company called Naver (they’re the number 1 internet portal in Korea I hear).

I can’t wait until there’s a Bettr@ store in the airport where people can buy their own “Bettr@ in a box“.

Ain’t nuthin’ but a Mr. G thang


This is an extremely popular restaurant in the mall my hotel was next to in Zhongguancun. and I pretty much visited every corner of the mall in my quest for vegetarian food, so I know what was popular and what wasn’t.

Mr G’s secrets explained

Basically, you put what you want in this large bowl, they weigh it and charge you, and then they stir fry it and give it to you in 5 minutes. It’s really quite good (and they can make it super spicy with lots of chili peppers). Delicioso.

Ummh

I’m not going to speculate, or judge.

RICH hair salon

This particular mall in Zhongguancun (and actually lots of stuff that I’ve seen in China now) is extremely commercial, aspirational, and arriviste-sounding. Or maybe I just don’t go to the mall often enough in the US and this is what its like there too.

RICH hair salon

This particular mall in Zhongguancun (and actually lots of stuff that I’ve seen in China now) is extremely commercial, aspirational, and arriviste-sounding. Or maybe I just don’t go to the mall often enough in the US and this is what its like there too.

We went to the mall because I needed to have a “service” done on an iPhone I bought from Vince *cough cough*.. Ahem. We walked into this store and lots of vendors were trying to sell us random trinkets (and $700 lenses for the now sub $200 camera that I was carrying on me). Look closely in this picture or just scroll below.

“I shall call him mini me”
Yes, that’s right. a MINI iPhone, suckers. The large screen iPhone that you can actually see and use the applications on is so old news! who needs that when you can have a defeatured device that does essentially nothing of consequence, for only 600 kuai?

From the actual feel of the device, it’s hard to tell that it’s fake until you turn it on and start using the interface which is dog slow (uses java- perhaps BREW?). I couldn’t read any of the characters, they were all in Chinese so I didn’t play much.

“Fail faster, Succeed Sooner”

Now, this is hilarious. I have no idea what this is for, but if this kid is going to get an MBA at like the age of 4, all bets are off for what the 21st century is really going to look like. [Wow, sorry to get all Thomas Friedman on ya there]

Whatever, I bet I have more work experience than she does. So there, take that, little girl!