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Evangelist to preach to 20,000 in Hangzhou
World famous Christian Evangelist Luis Palau is coming to Hangzhou to preach to 20,000, weather permitting. The Church, Chong Yi is only supposed to able to seat 5,400 (strange it isnt 8,888; I guess that represents pagan beliefs), but with that much love and goodwill in the air, rain will just sizzle and evaporate on the way down.
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Exploding popcorn man
First, I’ll answer the question that everyone asks. No, we didn’t see the Great Wall. China is a big country and we didn’t get within 800 miles of the Great Wall. But we did see the exploding popcorn man.
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Lonely China Excluded
Dropped into the Hangzhou Foreign Language Bookstore the other day and managed to snap this photo when nobody was looking. Can you see anything missing? It’s a nice shop though. Top floor has a collection of coffee table art books, some mangled by years of people thumbing through them, others wrapped and in perfect nick. [...]
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Angelos – A Slice of New York in Hangzhou
The Chateaubriand was 20 centimeters long, the whole tail end of a filet of beef. Slightly blackened on the outside, this gargantuan piece of beef cleaved open, almost poetically, to show the soft juicy pink centre…
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New Starbucks opened – Hangzhou EAC
Starbucks is slowly creeping west. If I can hold on a couple of years there might even be one downstairs from me. Check this for your nearest Starbucks
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Eddy, Jingjing & Bong Trio
Eddy Lewis, Bong, Hong Jingjing are playing together again in Eudora Station, Hangzhou. It’ll be a big gig.
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nciku.com | n词酷
n词酷 is owned by Korean search engine market leader NHN, who, since conquering Korea want to colonise elsewhere. Rather than plowing on into Japan and China with their own brand, they are testing waters with a new product – n词酷. This helps explain the main interface on n词酷 – a search bar.
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Viewhangzhou mobile
Lose that address or phone number? Or just want to have a quick read in the cab? This website automatically detects most mobile browsers and shows you a page like this one. On some phones, even the maps work. Never lost again.
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Hangzhou PSB Visa Application Form Download
I thought I would be ultra prepared before going to the Hangzhou PSB to beg for a new visa, but could find nowhere online to download and fill before I went. It meant that even though I was there very early, the 20 minutes it took me to fill it in meant I lost my way [...]
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D’Cafe Hangzhou
…Seriously though. D’Cafe isn’t actually a hotdog place in the Projects. Far from it. With the marble clad reception of the Dragon Hotel large enough to park a whole NBA teams’s worth of Hummers this place is more fitting to be seen drinking Crystal Champagne than chasing the dragon. With all this awe and glory and chandelier on the way in, it is slightly surprising that D’Cafe isn’t done up to the nines as well. This restaurant is simply comfortable …
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