Meet Mr. Cao, Skateboarding Hutong Bathroom Attendant

A very cool short video from our friends at Tranquil Tuesdays (artisanal tea brand based in Beijing):

Skateboarding Hutong Bathroom Attendant Mr. Cao

Working in Beijing’s historical hutong neighborhoods, life is never dull in Tranquil Tuesdays’ office and showroom on Fangjia Hutong. These past two weeks in the heat of the Beijing summer, we thought we saw an improbable mirage: a skateboarding hutong bathroom attendant skating by our doors. After days of stunned excitement watching Mr. Cao whiz by Tranquil Tuesdays hutong office and showroom in Beijing, we finally caught up with him (I literally ran out of our office to catch him before he crossed the street) to express our admiration and ask him if we could film him skating down our hutong: Fangjia Hutong. Mr. Cao is from Hebei province and lives on Fangjia Hutong. He skateboards to work at a public bathroom 3 km away, and says he has been skateboarding for a few months.

Via Tranquil Tuesdays Blog

Oppa Aircraft Carrier Style!

To fight the winter blues, the P.I.G. team decided to join in the latest viral craze to hit Weibo and the Chinese interwebs – China’s own Gangnam phenomenon, “Aircraft Carrier Style”. See our humble contribution here and below, plus a gallery of our favorites from ChinaSmack, and the helpful primer on the trend by the Atlantic.

YangBanXi Aircraft Carrier Style
Surgeon Style
Cutest Kid StyleAircraft 2
Aircraft in the GymAircraft at Sina