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		<title>Cool Kid Travels: I went to China and all I got was this lousy Obama tshirt, 100 pairs of &quot;Ray-bans,&quot; and some grainy street art photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Montgomery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, China was pretty fun.  Definitely not the human-rights abusing pit of despair you hear about in the news (although the internet censorship is annoying but trivially easy to subvert).  I even heard PBR referred to as &#8220;The People&#8217;s Beer,&#8221; which is just skull-fuckingly brilliant.  Also, if you are ever rolling around Hong Kong, there [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Yeah, China was pretty fun.  Definitely not the human-rights abusing pit of despair you hear about in the news (although the internet censorship is annoying but trivially easy to subvert).  I even heard PBR referred to as &#8220;The People&#8217;s Beer,&#8221; which is just skull-fuckingly brilliant.  Also, if you are ever rolling around Hong Kong, there is a delicious vegan dim sum place on Electric rd @ Lau Sin.  The sesame fried dumplings are off the hook.</p>
<p>And check out a solid HK-based street art group/the best cool-kid culture blog <em>imaginable</em>, <a href="http://startfromzero.org/sfzblog/">Start From Zero</a>.  They even host a <strong><a href="http://startfromzero.org/sfzblog/2008/12/24/if-you-drunk-how-to-play-pingpong/">yearly ping-pong tournament</a></strong>, which should give this blog <a href="http://startfromzero.org/sfzblog/2008/12/29/volume-one-volume-two-coming/">some inspiration</a>.</p>
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