Die Hard, Aliens, Hard Boiled, Terminator, Raiders

You should go see Supercop. I'm anti-current Jackie Chan, but in his prime, he was extremely entertaining. And Michelle Yeoh was no slouch.

Also Naked Killer stars Chigamy Yau! So it's got that going for it.

Those birdcage restaurants don't exist anymore in HK (or even Guangzhou where the tradition is from) but they don't really smell like birds at all. The birds aren't there permanently, they're "walked" there by their owners.

Is it any good? (It's still in cinemas here, but I don't know if I should spend the 53 RMB to go see it, or go see Rogue One again)

So we going out for a rip?

It's the Goddamned Berenstain universe.

I've lived all of my life in cities without a real winter - so to get smacked in the face by -25C was kind of amazing. When we went out at night, I looked like Randy from A Christmas Story.

It's a lot of fun. Harbin is a cool old industrial town with a lot of Russian influence, so that's neat as well.

Restaurant Peony? I used to go there when i was in college. Great place.

Jasmine is nice and light, and not strong enough to cut through the grease. Give me pu'er/bo lei please.

When you come to Shanghai for XLB, sure you can go to Din Tai Feng and Jia Jia, but those of us who live here know it's at Lin Long Feng.

I left ten years ago (right as the Houston food scene was starting to really take off) - so back then it was Fung's Kitchen and Ocean Palace (?) - I always told people that Houston had really good authentic, tasty, Chinese food - but not a whole lot of it. I'm sure it's changed now.

I'm 85% sure that the AFP/Getty Images stock photo is from Maxim's City Hall in Hong Kong which is where I take my friends (or recommend they go) - they still have push carts, it's foreigner friendly, you get a view of the harbor (or harbour) and it's not expensive like the Four Seasons or overrated like Tim Ho Wan…

Also, unlike the soft Shanghainese I live around, prone to getting into real fights, not just arguments.

Just that people are kind of aggressive there - when the most popular items come out on the cart - people don't wait for the cart to come by, they'll rush the cart and try to get the food right out of the door. Happens for stuff like har gow and . . . well mainly har gow.

Hmm, I went in 2010 - there's one right on the main street near the Russian Orthodox church. It's pretty famous. I liked getting the haw candy on sticks right off the street too. I wore long underwear + jeans during the day, but went to my snowboard pants at night.

If you're into the whole taro thing - and you sound like y'all are, McDonald's in HK/China/Taiwan have deep fried taro pies. (Also deep fried pineapple - which isn't as good as it sounds, and for a limited town only right now deep fried German cake - half cherry/half chocolate).

I never got to eat ja leung growing up in LA. But then I moved to Hong Kong and it was open season on ja leung.

Didn't want the other stuff, I can kind of understand - but didn't want pork? Dudes, Chinese food is 60% pork! It's so ubiquitous that the word meat is assumed to be pork unless otherwise modified!