Cooking Adventures

My friend Tracey and I frequently cook -- teaching each other recipes from our homelands. Here she is (with her assistant Stone) teaching me how to cook qiezi & yu (eggplant with dried fish):



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And here we have huanggua chao jidan (Cucumber & Eggs):

"PAGE LOAD ERROR -- NETWORK TIMEOUT"

"PAGE LOAD ERROR -- NETWORK TIMEOUT"
Usually these words are associated with a bad internet connection or momentary glitch...but when you're in China, you know better.
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Twice in the past 2 weeks YouTube has been blocked. The first was for videos that depicted a Ti bet an being beaten by Chinese military. The second time...well, we're not quite sure...perhaps there still working on the situation.
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On March 30th the "State Administration of Radio, Film, and TV" released a notice of the new requirements for internet videos and audio. Click on this post's title for the article.
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Here are a few fun excerpts:

There shall be no "excessively frightening images, text, background music, or sound effects". Terrified by sound affects? Serious?! I mean, I've jumped when BAM! something happens in a movie, but I'm not sure that I've ever heard a...uh, "excessively frightening sound effect". Sometimes I just don't know. That's when I just shake my head and sigh -- "China".

Also, in association with religious audio-visual, "hurting the feelings of the public" is prohibited. I guess Christianity doesn't qualify under these regulations. We know that Christ was offensive -- people murdered Him because they didn't like the message He brought. But Christ's goal wasn't to spread a popular message. It was to spread the Truth.
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We'll see what happens.
At least China will be achieving its dream of a "harmonious society". (I hate that phrase.)