Well this is all over the blogs this morning. Google’s reviewing its China ops and will stop censoring google.cn search results - announced on the official Google blog, which is on blogspot, which is blocked in China…

The New South China Mall is the second largest mall in the world and largely empty. (It used to be the largest mall in the World until the Dubai Mall came on line. But it’s still the largest empty mall in the World.) PBS have made a haunting documentary short about the mall that is well worth a look.

If you do any flying inside of China you get used to flight delays. So you sit on uncomfortable chairs in drafty waiting halls hoping your laptop battery will last and await the coming announcement with news of your flight. With a classic piece of circular logic the announcement usually goes something like: “The flight is delayed due to an aircraft delay.” In general the question is not if the flight is delayed, it is by how much. There’s a startup called FlightCaster which, in the US at least, claims to accurately predict flight delays early. I’m planning…

A video appeared on YouTube recently (embedded below) of diners in a restaurant discussing the dish in front of them. The diners are speaking Cantonese so I assume they are in Guangdong or somewhere down south. I don’t speak Cantonese but I can imagine what they’re saying. Now, there’s nothing unusual about diners discussing what they’re eating except that in this case what they’re eating is alive. Or at least appears to be alive. There has been the predictable wave of outrage on the net about this video. I am not going to judge. I…

One of the things that irks me about China is the service (or lack of it) at some restaurants. The New York Times has just posted a two parter called 100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do Part 1 and Part 2. They hit the nail right on the head with some of my favourite China dining experiences. For example:

Stunning timelapse and slow motion movie of China’s sixtieth birthday parade from Dan Chung of the Guardian.