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Q: How are your stools since you came to China?
Some have three legs, some four. Some are tall bar stools, some are too close to the floor.
Some have three legs, some four. Some are tall bar stools, some are too close to the floor.
My 3 legged ones still balance. My 4 legged ones are now no good due to the poor quality of Chinese construction...they wobble too much!
My other stools vary from generally firm to pebbledash, depending what I've been eating!
I find I have to go to the bathroom a lot more often than usual. Apart from that everything is fine.
I get the occasional attack of gout (due to slightly higher protein diet, not due to alcohol - usually). Times like these (like now), my meds have an adverse effect on* ... me. So, I try not to leave the house.
Otherwise, not too different to back home. My diet hasn't changed a lot.
* - tends to fix the problem, though...
I can examine them much more thoroughly because Chinese toilets can't dispose of them properly.
ScotsAlan:
Ha ha. I remember one hotel I stayed in, they had western toilets but no matter what I did, they would not flush. The water came out the cistern ok, but the bowl design was so bad the poop just swirled around a bit and stayed put.
One particular log had to be pushed around the bend with the toilet brush.
That was when I was based in the UK. I had just arrived in China so my constitution was still normal.
I think Chinese toilet designers have no concept of firm stools.
Not much different from back home, I guess my body "adapted" to the local food somehow.
I had the occasional daily diarrhea when I first came to China, haven't had it in years now.
Horrible. They'll stick to my butt, and I'll have to take a shower. I ended up solving this by adding 1 slice of bread to each dinner.
Monday- soft, almost ice cream like consistency. Tuesday- firm, nicely tapered.......
When I'm in China I always make sure to have a good supply of Loperamide available!
monday - friday = very liquid, sometimes not easy to control
saturday = nothing
sunday = solid due to my own food at weekend 
Stools? I hate the bamboo ones and those little blue plastic chairs. They do my back in. I look forward to normal chairs when i return to my side of the planet. I wonder if those tiny stools have something to do with people's weak musculature. Huddling in the foetal position is not normal for an adult human - or maybe Chinese bodies are different??
As for my stool, I get liquid nastiness at least once every week, when I'm eating street food and packaged snacks in my work apartment. My family cooks healthier when I'm with them. I'm getting tired of the oil and weird animal parts, but it rarely gives me stool problems.
Like most things in China...more often than not...a mess.
And how about when you stay in a hotel with your loved one and the bathroom isn't really a bathroom at all...just a partitioned off area with a glass wall/partition.
What is it with these ppl that they want to look at / listen to other ppl going to the toilet!!
Arseholes!
Today......liquid! Too many spicy prawns last night!
Hotwater:
Have you ever been to Guangdong? It's full of bloody migrant workers....from Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan! Where the migrants go their food follows. Guangzhou is full of spicy restaurants!
royceH:
Ok, I believe you. I wonder if it's modified in some way to become somehow Guangdongish?
Perhaps less oil?
Very different from what it was before. I also thought most us would have this natural change once living in China.. Its not cancer, it's not because you are sick, its because of what you're eating the atmosphere and more.
I just cracked my first bowl I think. Wow, my need to go just entered the Kilotonne TNT realm.
When I first arrived it seemed like every shit was an emergency. Now it's calmed down a bit.
