Please find a few key posts from my blog mintmochamusings.com and feel free to mosey on over to MMM for all my posts since 2012 on life in Hong Kong and China. You’ll find everything from Asian Adventures to Expat Life, Motherhood Moments, Repatriation Realities, Media Matters and Hotel Confessions.
Wuhan - a city we almost moved to once. A city I wrote about in this blog post, that then, was a city few outside of China had ever heard of.
Now the infamous city is a household name right around the globe, sadly for all the wrong reasons.
The official epicentre of the Coronavirus, over 2500 people have died in Wuhan, although that figure is said to be as high as 40,000 by some, who claim China has covered up the number of covid-19 deaths.
Currently over 20,000 people worldwide have developed the virus with over 400 confirmed deaths. While that figure is steadily rising, and has now overtaken the death toll from SARS, it’s still only a two per cent fatality rate.
But China’s Communist Party is taking no chances. At least not at face value.
Despite the many blog posts, I’ve written about China, I still get asked all sorts of questions from people about to embark on their big adventure to the Middle Kingdom.
So, I’ve put together a quick ‘go to’ list, of essentials, to make sure you’re not caught short when you visit China.
What’s the time Mr Wolf? 1 o’clock? 2 o’clock….or perhaps it’s Truth o’clock.
When your small person starts wanting to know more than Mr Wolf’s time, like ‘Muuumm how are babies made?’ It’s time to start talking, or is it?
I’ve never been to Japan. I know!! It’s always been on my bucket list and living in Asia, it was always one of those “we’ll get there eventually” destinations. But sadly, we left before we made it. Boo!
Still I’m not giving up hope! So when I got offered some expert tips on some ‘top secret’ places to go in Japan, I figured I’d sneakily keep them up my sleeve, for ‘one day!’
A record two million people took to Hong Kong’s streets on Sunday to protest Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s controversial extradition bill.
The bill, which has now been suspended, would see criminal suspects extradited from Hong Kong to Mainland China to face trial under a Communist legal system.
Hello my friends!
Break out the champers, because CHINA BLONDE - the memoir is here!!!
If you've been following Mint Mocha Musings for awhile now, like I know so many of you loyally have since 2012 (yes it's been that long), you've probably heard me talking about writing a book.... a lot. And, you've probably wondered if I was making it up -- I don't blame you, it's taken that bloody long!