really?

Drinkable tap water? Oh sure, if you live at the treatment plant.

Actually, I’ve noticed that the water down in this small corner of southern Chaoyang is much cleaner than in the hole in Haidian we just escaped. Still wouldn’t drink it without boiling it first, though.

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A Kiwi teaching English to oil workers in Beijing, studying Chinese in my spare time, married to a beautiful Beijing lass, consuming vast quantities of green tea (usually Xihu Longjing/西湖龙井, if that means anything to you), eating good food (except for when I cook), missing good Kiwi ale, breathing smog, generally living as best I can outside Godzone and having a good time of it.

2 thoughts on “really?

  1. Actually, I have much the same feeling about the water here. The stuff that was coming out of the taps where I was in Fuzhou might’ve been called Hint of Water. It’s probably much cleaner here because the pipes in this building are Jiang Zemin Dynasty, whereas the newest ones in Fuzhou were probably Song Dynasty.

  2. Ah, the old water dissolved in pollution trick. In Changsha I never asked where the fish came from because I regularly saw the “river” and “fish ponds” where the fish were probably raised, and a bit of creative suspension of disbelief was the only way to get through a meal involving fish. In Tianjin I just plain steered clear of anything fish-like.

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