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China vs. Paraguay, Sept. 7th, Nanjing Olympic Stadium

Nanjinged — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:11:45 +0000

Tuesday September 7th at 7:00 PM, the Chinese Men’s National Football Team will face off against Paraguay at Nanjing Olympic Stadium. Tickets are said to start at 60RMB with normal tickets at 120RMB and VIP tickets not to exceed 1000RMB. It’s even rumored that a certain Paraguay fan may be a VIP guest…

Looks like Paraguay is calling up a few of its big guns and isn’t taking the trip too lightly. China is also calling home many of its international players and will first face Iran on September 3rd in Zhengzhou.

Pleco 2.2 Looks awesome!

Nanjinged — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:18:48 +0000

http://plecomirror.com/ocrdemovid.html

Check out this demo, on the fly OCR from your IPhone camera without needing you to take a picture! This could be a lot of fun (for total nerds like me).

First attempt at Tandoori Chicken: Results

Nanjinged — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:27:01 +0000

Not too shabby, but definitely have a few ideas for next time….

First attempt at Tandoori Chicken

Nanjinged — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:46:32 +0000

First attempt at making my own Tandoori chicken is marinating in the fridge. In approximately 24 hours I should know how this little experiment went…

New Metro Supermarket to open September 1st

Nanjinged — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:45:03 +0000

Metro is by far my favorite place to shop, generally not too crowded, has a good range of imported wine, chesses, sour cream, etc. plus your normal stuff.

A new store will be opening Sept. 1st, much closer to those of us living downtown, it will be in the North West part of the city:

Address:

No.300,Jianning Road,Xiaguan District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province

江苏省南京市下关区建宁路300号(南京西站旁)

Hours:

6:00-22:00

Hot hot pot

Nanjinged — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:16:18 +0000

Hottest day of the summer, but can’t stop my hot pot addiction!!

Afternoon at Metro

Nanjinged — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:32:18 +0000

Spent the afternoon at Metro, and seems they are adding some new stock lately. It’s a real pain to get to, and their prices aren’t always the best, but they do have by far the largest stock of imported food stuffs in Nanjing. Also, if you go during the week, the place is especially dead, it’s almost worth the trip just to shop in wide aisled peace and quiet!

Feta, Sour Cream, etc. The selection seems to grow every time I go in.

People overseas get a laugh when I tell them I usually buy my Bleu Cheese from Ikea, but looks like I may have to either give that up or blatantly lie as the prices seem better at Metro.

Decent selection of wines under ~70RMB, but have had some real horrible stuff. Have been meaning to start keeping a record of what I’ve tried….

Ton of wine and large liquor selection behind that.

First time I’ve noticed, but they now have TimTams. For those uninitiated, these are disgustingly(or deliciously) sweet chocolate covered wafer type cookies that are originally from Australia. Seriously one of the most intensely sweet things I’ve ever eaten.

More info:

Metro （麦德龙）

近郊雨花台区卡子门大街98号

http://www.metro.com.cn/metro/front.do?go=biztool_common_pg_StoreEditWeb&store_id=8103&country=-1&code=1

http://www.dianping.com/shop/3367261

Things I like #002: Distingue Smokey Cheese Slices

Nanjinged — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:13:04 +0000

This stuff is a pretty good choice if you need processed cheese slices (or are forced to make due in this cheeseless wasteland). Available in most grocery stores with 3 varieties, the dark blue one is regular flavor, light blue is the low fat and the orange one pictured has a real nice smoked flavor. The other two are pretty typical, but it’s the smoked that I get, makes great grilled cheese sandwiches!

Tortilla Time

Nanjinged — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:41:08 +0000

Take that Old El Paso. No more of your overpriced imported tortillas. Metro now has these Shanghai made tortillas frozen in the bakery for ~15 RMB per dozen. These won’t keep as long once unfrozen as those Old El Paso bio-engineered mutant tortillas, but believe me, that is a good thing!

GFW Google Schizophrenia

Nanjinged — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:06:13 +0000

So appears I spoke too soon (along with just about everyone else). Google appears to be back to the same state it was in a few days ago in China. Namely rerouting through Hong Kong, but still delivering search results.

Turns out it was just a “glitch” and not censorship. Well, not intentional censorship of Google anyways. The search results were returning URLs which contained “gs_rfai”, which gets blocked as the Great Firewall interprets them as having something to do with “Radio Free Asia”, which is in fact blocked. So Google fixed the “glitch” and we’re back to normal, or what passes for normal in this cyber soap opera\pissing contest………

more info:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8595767.stm