Comments on: Hefei; Industrial Capital on the Plain

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:55:33 +0000

Having lived and worked in Anhui for 2 years I seem to have a different perspective, Hefei is maybe not the most attractive city, but the people are by far some of the nicest and kindest I have found in China! Anhui may be a poor province, but had the blogger visited Chizhou, my hometown, perhaps he would view things differently, it is a tiny city by Chinese standards, but very beautiful, and has a development plan that most cities envy. Full of excellent restaurants, KTV and even the above mentioned massage parlours!!
Instead of all the negativity, maybe a positive attitude could help promote the province and help to build the importance and thus the tourist trade, which could and would help the local economy.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:18:24 +0000

Ahahahahah the protesters will get “harmonised”. Will they be put between giant tuning forks and vibrated until their political beliefs resound in tune with the CCP’s?
You stupid douche Alan.

By: Ronald

Ronald — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:22:18 +0000

Ive been staying for internship in hefei for 2months now, and I found many ktv around hilton, but still no dairy queen (you hardly find dairy queen in Europe as well). When I wanted to visit hefei, chinese guy from Beijing asked me, why the hell your going to hefei? To be honest at frist I had bad image about hefei as wikipedia says it is one of the poorest province in china; but I change my mind now, its not as bad as it said. It has 3 carrefour & walmart, hilton, pizza hut, mc.d, etc (so far only starbucks is missing), and anyway why on earth i want to eat that in china, like old people say, when you go to china you act like chinese !. Foods that foreigner must try is fish on very hot oily soup, egg crépe on the street, and sweet bread on the street also (0.5rmb).
Another thing, I think people in hefei is so warm hearted and sincere to help.
So far the downside with hefei is its hard to find someone who can speak english, if they speak more english, im sure it will catch up with other cities in china.
Anyway, when i come back to Amsterdam, if i miss hefei, i think your blog will be good to read ha ha ha.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:57:13 +0000

PLEASE!
Do not discriminate a country only after you know she-to Alan from USA，and welcome to China by yourself？

By: China Business Success

China Business Success — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:07:27 +0000

Wow nice pictures! I’ve never been to Anhui before. I would like to though, but there are so many places that I want to visit some day. I’ll just add Anhui to the list

I thought the pictures of the street vendors with the different “food specialties” were not that attractive. But the “chuan” (meat on a stick) does remind me of the time that I was in Beijing when I bought a few of them. I really like them! So good…just like something of the grill or barbecue here in the West.

By: Wei

Wei — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:39:03 +0000

Alan,
Seriously, if you believe in the stories on Washingtonpost you don’t need bother to read a blog like this one at all.

By: Ji Village News

Ji Village News — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:30:31 +0000

Good stuff Ben! You shots of the train interior brought some nostalgic feeling out of me, although my train in the early 1990s during high season was way, way more crowded than yours. Not too sure if I passed Hefei or not, but definitely Bengbu.

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:30:48 +0000

Hi Ben,
Been enjoying this series of posts!!! Great travel adventure stuff for me to pilfer for ChinaTravel.net
Rebekah

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:40:45 +0000

You should remove the two pictures of the mob rally immediately. I can’t believe you are so insensitive and naive. The mob leader is probably in jail now. What you have described is still not a laughing matter in the middle kingdom. It’s estimated that hundreds of protests of this sort happen daily in poor regions of China. Anhui is definitely one of them. Needless to say, many mobsters have been harmonized. You should read this article on Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041502901.html

Delete the pictures and my comment here after you are done with it.

By: Hang

Hang — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:56:09 +0000

Interesting post. I don’t Anhui benefits least from China’s reform and opening up. Maybe some western provinces such as Guizhou, Gansu benefit far less. Stinky tofu does not taste the same in China. The best stinky tofu I ate was in Guiyang, Guizhou province.