PandaPassport.com – China Blog

***cross posted on DalianDalian.com

First it was Xianzai.com who was stealing our Dalian content and reprinting it verbatim on their website.

Now it’s ChinaExpat.com. I was a little disappointed to see that, especially since I had written a pretty hefty Dalian piece for them a while back. Maybe they figured that if I did one piece pro-bono, that I wouldn’t mind if they lifted all the stuff I’d written about Dalian? I don’t know… They do link to DalianDalian.com on one of their pages, but I really don’t think that’s gonna cut it on their listings pages. Especially considering that when users search for a Dalian bar or restaurant on Google, ChinaExpat will be right up there in the rankings thanks to the content they lifted (word-for-word) from us.

UPDATE: This is especially mind-boggling considering that ChinaExpat has their content stolen a while back, and made quite a bit over noise over it. I suspect this is a case of the site owners not knowing what hired writers are doing… But Jesus, c’mon people.

Anyway ChinaExpat, you can use my stuff. Just be clear to attribute where it came from.
Also you’ve stole some of DalianXpat’s content too, so be sure to get in contact with them too.

Some examples:

Original Page: http://www.daliandalian.com/listings/dalian-bavarian-beer-house
Stolen content: http://www.chinaexpat.com/dalian-bavarian-beer-house.htm

Original Page: http://www.daliandalian.com/listings/brooklyn-bar-and-restaurant
Stolen content: http://www.chinaexpat.com/brooklyn-bar-and-restaurant.htm

Original Page: http://www.daliandalian.com/listings/chu-shin-ya
Stolen Content: http://www.chinaexpat.com/chu-shin-ya.htm

Ok. I had to put this up here, cause it’s so funny. And important.
If America votes in McCain and this twat, my confidence in humanity will be completely shot.

So just now I’m buying some cheesecake in our local bakery here in Dalian China, when I stumble across what looks like a cake with three big Wangs stickin’ up off it.

Sure enough this cake, labelled “Romance of the Three Kingdoms,” does indeed have three penises mounted on top, complete with faux hairy-testicles down below. They kind look like Beaker from the Muppets. With a hat of course….

Awesome. Here are the pics. Click to enlarge.

If anyone wants to check it out, it’s at Milooke in the Roosevelt Building on Xi-an Lu. I’m sure it’ll still be there tomorrow.

Cheers to youku’s Video Buzz newsletter (subscribe here) for bringing this one to my attention.

This was posted on Sept 12, but I didn’t find it until just now. But I thought it was definitely worth posting nonetheless.

Check the video below, or see Rebecca’s blog here.

Yeah, you heard me. A gaelic football team in China. If you don’t know what gaelic/Irish football is, that doesn’t really matter so much. Just check it out below in the video. Long story short, there’s a team here in Dalian, China — not a likely place to find that brand of football either. The Dalian Wolfhounds, as they’re called, have quite a few Chinese starters this year, more than any other team I’m told. That’s great to see. It’s almost like the Jamaican bobsled team, in a way — only without the bobsled and stuff.

They’ve been training every week and drinking their milk, and fund-raising as well, in the hopes of traveling to Malaysia for the All-Asia Games on October 11th and 12th. Read more about that here, on their blog. But they could use your help. If you have a paypal account, it’d be much appreciated if you send a modest donation. No amount is too small.

Update 9/28: Mikey Farrelly, coach of the Wolfhounds, has just announced that unfortunately they didn’t reach their fund-raising target, and will not be able to make the trip to Malaysia. However, your donations are still welcome, as they will continue fund-raising for the club — and according to Mikey, they are “going to hit next year’s China Games like a ton of bricks!”

This video made the front page of youku today. It features a bunch of kids who are the product of “Sino-Foreign” cooperation, as the title says:

The responses to this video show a pretty clear division. Many Chinese people approve of this kind of “cooperation,” and while others show themselves a little less tolerant:

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Why are they all Chinese women with a foreign [man] (there are many old ones, the same as Zhang Ziyi)

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I also want to find a foreign wife~~

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They’re all very strong! I’m not sure I could satisfy a foreign women!!!

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In dogs, purebreds are valuable. How about people?

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I think if we are to talk of beauty, French-Chinese are the most beautiful of all the half-bloods.

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Mixed people are really beautiful.

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Some Chinese girls give themselves to old foreign men, I’m totally against it!