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Black Table's excellent guide to the Chinatown bus to Boston is also a glimpse into what it's like to travel pretty much anywhere in Asia, outside of Urban areas: Cheap, crowded, uncomfortable, and maybe a little crazy. But with less white people (usually). And while Black Table reassures that first time riders will not be the "only white person on the bus," Gothamist would like to remind people of the semi-derogatory Cantonese terms for whites, just so you'll know when you're being discussed, even if you don't know what they are saying: gwei lo.
There was a recent arrest in the stabbing of one Chinatown bus employee and Gothamist on earlier incidents. Andrew J. Sinclair and Jemima on the Chinatown bus.
Get ready for a ride on the Chinatown bus by watching some Asian friendly films!
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Well, what's the non-derogatory term?
Exactly what I was going to ask. Are there some semi-derogatory terms I could use durring my cocktail party this weekend so I can seem a little edgy but not be seen as a racist by the wiaters?
What I don't understand about all this "travel outside the US" bit is...have any of you taken the Grayhound bus to Boston? For weird service and passengers, Chinatown still doesn't hold a candle to the Port Authority.
As for comfort -- a bus is a bus. I've experienced no meaningful difference between Grayhound and Fung Wah. My mother-in-law used to get nervous when she went on one of the buses without a bathroom, but there was always a rest stop halfway, and by now most of lines have upgraded to the large buses (which have bathrooms).
Ride and be happy!
The best part of taking Fung Wah from NYC to Boston is when the driver decides to drop his buddy off in Providence before heading up to Boston. I mean, for $10 -- can you complain?
Like traveling in Asia? You mean the drivers stay up for 36 hours at a time and are cranked up on Red Bulls?
How dare you forget the NYC to DC bus (and the NYC to Philly) one as well? What's so friggin great about Beantown in the winter anyway? Come down South, where it's warmer. Or stay in NYC. Just don't go to Beantown.
Clear, concise, the model of great writing.