Quite by accident I found a much cheaper option to acquiring a western style mattress.

I won't bore you with the details of how I stumbled across this, but I found that if you use 80mm foam that they sell here as cushioning here on the traditional wooden sofas, cut to the size of your bed, it makes a wonderfully comfortable mattress. We have it on one of those cheap super hard metal framed beds you can buy here.

The piece we have here for the queen sized bed cost 250rmb and is wonderfully comfortable while being quite supportive. If you have a larger frame requiring extra cushioning then you can buy another piece and put them together. If you want something a bit firmer they have firmer 100mm thick foam for 350rmb.

Of course it won't have the lifespan of a good western style mattress, but when you consider the cost saving I think it is a bargain.

Maybe it's different with new ebikes, but the battery in my old ebike weighs a ton. You don't want to be lugging that up 5 floors every day or two.

Leo Liu, a cheese trader who runs an online store on Taobao.com, China's biggest e-commerce website, said mozzarella and cream cheese from New Zealand are his bestsellers. He sold almost 3,000 packs of mozzarella last month, priced at 20 yuan ($3) a pack. "Young people are buying cheese to cook pizza at home. It is not expensive, and gives a feeling of a Westernized lifestyle, which is chic,"
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Scandal-hit liquor maker halts packaging lines

Initial investigations indicated that liquor produced by Jiugui Liquor Co Ltd might be contaminated with plasticizer during the packaging process — from plastic tubes and corks, according to Xia Xinguo, general manager of the firm.

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Huashan Xi Lu is the Street running behind the Green lake Hotel which is situated on the East shore of the Green Lake.

The Tieju Lu intersection is the first crossroad past the back of the Hotel as you walk South.