Travel Life

UPDATE: 2021/12/09 Its been awhile since I have seen a wild sea turtle, even longer while since the one in Dandong that kinda sparked this post. To be fair-I haven't seen the captured and prepped for sale sea turtle market, nor have I heard about it-recently I was in Huizhou and we discussed the Huidong Sea Turtle Base. It was said that a lot of people would turn sea turtles into soup..that musta be a bloody feast, cause sea turtles ain't small and I can't imagine a lot of folk interested in a tiny one. Then again-who knows. My wife, son and I were considering going there to see the research base and learn a bit about sea turtles-also hoping to see some up close...maybe on the beachor whatever. Although the base is interesting and actually has a sea turtle there at the base that they keep, my son is only 3 years old. Its more of a trip for someone who is actually planning on spending some time there learning about the turtles/is specifically in GD province for that particul...

If you have ever gotten drunk in China it was a first time of either Beer or Bei Jiu. When in Rome, or in this case...Beijing, right? If you haven't heard or researched it yet, you will be reading about in this article about the chances and drawbacks to the formaldehyde content of Chinese beers in China. Many foreign beers (foreign to the west) don't make it to the west for a number of reasons, and formaldehyde content is one of them. In the past formaldehyde was used in beer to fasten the the filtration of impurities. It also turns out that allegedly formaldehyde appears naturally in the brewing process when methanol is involved. Basically, when methanol is metabolized it creates a very tiny amount of formaldehyde as a byproduct. This means there are a possible 2 sources of the formaldehyde in beer, one is intentional and the other is inevitable. The intentional use CAN be eliminated however companies were trying to make a buck or two, I am not sure what the current situat...