Trip to Beijing
Part One.
On 18/08/10 I arrived at Beijing International Airport. This is my first time to Beijing. Everything seem to be Big. I have not spent enough time to move arround but I think I like the city.
BEST CHINESE FOODS YOU CAN’T LEAVE WITHOUT THEM.
Chinese foods are world famous.Do you know that millons of the world’s population eat Chinese food daily? Even if it was eaten regularly by some only, Chinese cooking would still be acknowledged as one of the greatest and original cuisines of the world.
Many elements that have influenced its development. The Chinese people enjoy eating good food at all levels of society so cooking has developed into a very sophisticated art.
Confucius once said: “Eating is the utmost important thing in life.”
When you are planing of visiting Beijing or any part of China, you need try the following Chinese food.Don’t be surpise if chinese ask you “Have you eaten already?” Since it’s a popular
greeting among the Chinese.
- Asian Pear
- Baby bok choy
- Beijing roasted duck
- Chicken feet
- Chinese Sausage,
- Chow Mein
- Bubble Tea
- Centry egg
- Mapo Tofu
- Dragon’s Beard Candy
- Dried cuttlefish
- Drunken Chicken
- Egg drop Soup
- Egg Rolls
- Fresh bamboo shoots
- Fortune Cookies
- Fried milk
- Fried Rice
- Hot Coca-cola with Ginger
- Hot pot
- Jellyfish
- Lion’s head metal balls
- longan fruit
- Macaroni in Soup with Spam Malatang
- Mock Meat
- Moon Cake
- Pan-fried jiaozi
- Pineapple bun
- Sichuan pepper in any dish
- Silken tofu
- Soy milk freshly made
- Steamed egg custard
- Stinky tofu
- Sweet and sour pork
- Chicken and shimps
- Dumpling
- Yuanan goat cheese
- Lemon chicken
- Shark’s fen soup
- Bird’s net soup
- Dragon well tea
- Salted duck egg
Dinning etiquette
Never put chopsticks vertically in rice.
Do not let chopsiks be covered with food
And never wave the chopsticks
Brenda D. Martin
How to protect yourself from dieases while traveling.
Day in and day out millions of people travel abroad, for touring, business, studying, etc.but have you given it a taught about how to protect yourself from getting infected from diseases especially when visiting developing countries?
WHO estimates the monthly risk per 100.000 persons travelling in developing countries as:
- One person will die during the travel
- 60 persons will have to be evacuated by flight in order to get comprehensive treatment
- 400 persons are hospitalised at the destination
- 2000 persons will not able to go back to work directly after getting home.
- 6000 persons have been ill
- 8000 persons have been consulting a medical doctor either at the destination or after getting home from the travel
- 25 000 persons will get ill during the travel
- 55 000 will use medication
Good preparation reduces the risk if something goes wrong on your trip healthwise. The cost of medical evacuation of a sick or injured person is extremely high which stresses the importance to be well insured and well prepared.
100 000 traveller’s stricken with infectious diseases are distributed with:
- Less than one person gets meningitis, cholera or legionella
- 10 get HIV-infection
- 40 get typhoid fever
- 80 get hepatitis B
- 150 are exposed to rabies
- 200 get gonorrhoea
- 300 get hepatitis A
- 1500 get bronhcial infections
- 2500 get malaria
- 10 000 get diarrhoea E.coli
- 50 000 get traveller’s diarrhoea
When ever you are in different country remember that you stick to bottled water or boiled water and carbonated soft drinks. Since drinking another countries water maybe dengerous. Never order a drink with ice, since the ice is made from water , you will never know the water is bolied or not.
Also brush your teeth with bottled water and keep your mouth shut when taken shower.
When you have any food or medicine alleigies, try to learn the name s of those commodies in the languages used in the countries you will be visiting.
Finally try to find out the type of diseases that are common to the area you will be visiting and the proper actions to be taken to prevent your exposue to those diseases.
Car crashes are a leading cause of injury among travelers. Protect yourself from these injuries by:
- Not drinking and driving.
- Wearing your seat belt and using car seats or booster seats in the backseat for children.
- Following local traffic laws.
- Wearing helmets when you ride bikes, motorcycles, and motor bikes.
- Not getting on an overloaded bus or mini-bus.
- Hiring a local driver, when possible.
- Avoiding night driving.
For more information visitCenters of Disease Control and Prevention