Olympic athletes with serious la duzi and Beijing’s not so safe cha shao bao

I love eating cha shao bao, but after this was turned up by an investigative journalist, I’ll be a little more careful next time I eat cha shao bao here in Beijing:
Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and flavored with fatty pork and powdered seasoning, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns [...]

If you’re wondering where I’ve been

and why I haven’t been updating, you’re probably my mother. Hi Mom!
Well, fourth year has turned out to be pretty time consuming. Big surprise. On top of the coursework, my family was in town last week, and this required me to take many a slow and smelly taxi ride from Beijing Normal to their Chaoyang [...]

Forgetting Wang Keqin and the Beijing Taxi Cartel

Wang Keqin is one of China’s most famous investigative journalists. In 2002, the China Economic Times published Wang Keqin’s 30,000 character report “The Inside Story on the Beijing Taxi Cartel.” This article was responsible for breaking Beijing’s taxi monopoly and ending its serious abuses of Beijing’s taxi drivers.
The report went as far up as Wen [...]