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Q: Which places define 'foreign' for you?
It could be the bus, restaurant, family dinner, managing traffic, or any number of things, but for me it has to be the park that takes the prize: people doing tai chi or simply walking slowly and doing that hand-wavy thing like a kid in a drama class who's been asked to be a willow tree in a breeze, or the karaoke machine singers, or groups of musicians that sound like the first week of band practice, the ballroom dancers, or (this is just one I came across today) the speed-walking opera singers........or.........God knows what else, it couldn't be more different to London life if it was on another planet.
Which places make you feel the furthest away from home?
Public restrooms. Hell, even the stench from the office restroom would gag a maggot today 
mike168229:
Any toilet outside a Maccas of KFC usually has that nice, eye burning, ammonia.
The lack of clean air (smog, farts, restrooms, stinky tofu, durian)
Every...... Single......Little......Thing.
There is really nothing here that could possibly make me feel like I was even close to home.
Nessquick:
there are, some seconds in the daily life, when i can have a close feel of home. like the first bite in the fresh home baked bread ...
riding a public bus in a third-tier city of Hunan. wow, strange-ass experience! the way the roads are so torn up; the blasting of those air-horns!!! I am soooo surprised that people allow that! can u imagine blasting an air-horn two feet from a pedestrian on a downtown city street in a Western country ?? here it occurs roughly every minute from 06:00 - 23:00. people walking down the middle of the street,, seemingly unaware or not giving a toss if smashed into red pulp. weird, weird, weird experience these city streets in Hunan. I cannot describe it well, but come and see for yourself~ a vision of 'anything goes' taking place in a broken-down environment.
sorrel:
been there. Hunan could almost be described as a frontier town on the Wild West. (racist comment alert) ;o)
Nessquick:
Sounds like an experience, I have had in every place in China, Yiwu, LuAn, Hefei, Shenzhen and, great Shanghai too
Sorry but for me it's going home: Karaoke - I enjoy that now, and the hand-wavy thing while walking - been there, although I do still laugh! My home country is probably as foreign to me now as China is. Strange.
