I’ve been sticking close to home and haven’t come across too much chinglish, but of course it’s unavoidable. I’ve noticed for the most part, chinglish is being cleaned up and now the humor lies in the context, not necessarily the bad grammar.
As I rode the slick new escalators up the side of the mountain in the Xiamen botanical Gardens, I hated myself a little. Why was I here, supporting the destruction and abuse of this gorgeous natural mountain? I mean, is there anything lazier than taking an escalator up a mountain?
You’d think in a country where Instagram was blocked there would be no Instagrammification of places. But then you’d be wrong…very wrong.
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