Although Yao isn’t playing anytime soon, the Chinese news agency Xin Hua did a big article on Yao the other day. It’s basically a recap of Yao’s past history, similar to what you would read in his biography “A Life in Two Worlds.”

But there’s some new nuggets of information in there that I didn’t even know, like how his first thing to drink as a baby was not breast milk, but a bowl of bitter soup of “Huang Lian,” which was a local custom to give children a better idea of what sweetness is later in life.

He also said he’s not an adventurer. For example, he always drives the same route to Toyota Center, and rarely takes chances in shooting the basketball in different ways for fear of picking up an offensive foul. But he is more independent than his parents, who grew up during a much different time in China’s culture.

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