Donna Kato, at the Yu Yuan Gardens and bazaar complex in Shanghai's Old City. The gardens were founded by Ming dynasty officials in the 1500s. The bazaar is full of tourists eating stinky tofu and buying overpriced souvenirs.
Kept this blog while studying Mandarin in Beijing, courtesy the Washington Post, and before that while reporting from postwar Iraq for Knight Ridder Newspapers. Occasionally I can't access this blog but I will try to update it intermittently ...
