when u step into this shop u would be amazed by its stunning dresses, smell of lily and the home-like feeling. All the wedding dresses and evening dresses are hand-made and self-designed, so every single one of them is unique. More importantly the onwer is such a lovely and nice lady with very good taste who would give you really good advices and really nice companion. She made this shop somewhere you would like to spend time not only when you have to prepare a wedding. Now i've made up my mind to choose my bridal dress here!

There's another cotton candy ice-cream brand in Beijing: Ruimilk (and it too has the whole laboratory set-up). As an ice-cream lover, I honestly don't know how I feel about this cloudy craze -- but I'll reserve my judgement until I actually try one of these concoctions. By the way, I took the photos below from the 凯德 shopping mall in 太阳宫.

Wow, Feast went from Rob Cunningham to an "international operational management trainee." That was fast.

I have a positive experience with Ruitai Kouqiang at Beiyuan Lu.

A few days ago, I somehow managed to loose a tiny bit of one of my teeth when eating lunch. As per advice of my dentist in my home country, I wanted to get X-ray pictures taken to examine the extent of the damage.

After browsing the internet, I read about Ruitai Kouqiang on dianping (http://www.dianping.com/shop/5356810). The reviews were very positive. I decided to simply go there to make an appointment, rather than trying to make myself clear through the telephone. I walked in at around 3.30pm, filled out my details on a registration form (passport not needed) and could see a dentist straight away. She (doctor Wang) spoke some English, but mostly we conversed in Chinese. I explained the problem, told her I would like to have an X-ray taken. She too thought it was a good idea to do that. I formally registrered at the hospital (6 RMB) and got a registration card. We then walked to the X-ray room. After several minutes waiting time, another dentist took the X-ray. The room was sufficiently clean and the tools were replaced with new disposal plastics. The photo was sent straight to the first dentist who concluded that there was no root damage. She then perfomed some tests on my tooth to check its sensitivity. All was fine.

This cost me a total of 30 minutes and only 36 RMB (30 RMB for the dentist and the X-ray and 6 for registration).

It was reasonably clean, staff spoke some English and were all very friendly. Upon asking whether non-Chinese speaking foreigners would be treated at the clinic, I was told that they would prefer to be able to communicate with the patient, so that if you do not speak sufficiently well Chinese, you should bring along someone who can translate.

I am sure this whole thing would have cost a billion RMB more at SOS or similar clinics. The name of the clinic in Chinese is 瑞泰口腔医院 (Rytime Dental). It is located very close to the Lishuiqiaonan subway station. Take exit D and walk 100 meter south. Don't confuse it with the other dental clinic that you will pass on your way! Opening hours are from 8-20, every day of the year. Tel no: 01084828880.

If I want to have the tooth fixed, it will cost me an additional 2800-3600 RMB, doctor Wang told me. Depending on the cost of this treatment in my home country I may decide to go ahead with this. If so, I will write another update here.

Expat1145 wrote:

I can to this garbage country the same reason every other noble white an did- the liberals have made America garbage. Even though the yellow man is nothing but a disgusting flesh sack at least he knows his proper place, below the white. Here he lets the white make more money and act with impunity. Work is plentiful and opportunity for the white is boundless.

If the yellow man would stop restricting their internet and speaking their gutter speak this country would be much more pleasant.

Chloe Novelli wrote:

"To give you monolinguals" - well that's quite an interesting use of words, but not knowing Chinese doesn't make you monolingual. Maybe for the author Chinese is the only language he/she ever accomplished to learn and believes to be the cool bilingual who knows something else besides English, but there are plenty of people out there who know more than one language, maybe it's not Chinese, but that doesn't give the author a right to insult people with this useless and uninteresting article.

^ sorry!

Maybe you could take a look at the obviously humorous tone of the whole piece and find it in your multilingual heart to forgive us

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