中国似乎对奶酪不太有兴趣。我不知道 这是为什么。事实上， 我确实有个理 论——奶酪的可选性正是它不受欢迎的原 因。除了那些无味的融化奶酪和橡胶似的 切达奶酪(坦白地说，它们真的毫无吸引 力)之外，要找到其它类型的奶酪是特别 困难的。所以，普通的中国消费者尝了尝 奶酪，断定自己不喜欢(能够理解)就不 再买了。而厂商因为在售卖这个无味的渣 滓所以在奶酪市场上看不到高的收益，便 决定不在生产奶酪的更多类型上浪费金钱 了。因此要是你像我一样，渴望品尝到法 国布里白乳酪、卡门贝浓味软乳酪、荷兰 高德干酪、斯第尔顿奶酪和瑞士多孔干酪 等奶酪那丰富而多样的口味，你就得去专卖 店搜寻，或者，对了，就让你的朋友们从海 外带给你。提醒一下，要是他们搭乘远程飞 机的话，这就不是什么要带的好东西了。

    Books in English

    英语书籍 Maybe this part should be called "foreign language books", but my mother tongue is English, so never mind. You can buy quite a lot of books in English in China. Beijing even has a pretty cool lending library for English books. Yet it's often very diffi- cult to get a specific book – the selection you'll find in shops will often turn up some surprising gems that you didn't even know existed, but if you're out looking specifically for, say, the latest Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, chances are you're out of luck. So that's another item you'll find in the suitcases of expats returning to China – odd assortments of books (usually paperbacks, for lightness) ......