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Frank Hossack

Zhenqianghui Guns Club

There is something slightly disconcerting about picking up a gun anywhere, but in China it is overwhelmingly bizarre. Zhenqianghui Guns Club is Nanjing’s only shooting club, located, again somewhat incredulously, in a mall, or close to it, in the...

Macro-Localisation; See you in Suguo

Localisation is a term that sounds rather, well, global. Indeed, without the latter there would be none of the former. However, there is more to it than simply varying the menu in differing countries according to local tastes. In...

Street Bar

Decent drinking dens in Jiangning are hard to come by. Street Bar, despite the moniker, was until now, a cheapskate dive dating back to 2012 for nearby locals and students of Nanjing university of Aeronautics and Astronautics and across...

Classic V-Twin Sets Up Shop In Nanjing

More than 50 Harley-Davidson motorcycles from all over Eastern China descended upon the scenic Baijia Lake area of Nanjing on Saturday afternoon to mark the opening of the iconic brand’s local dealership. As the legendary company...

Epermarket

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Ronnie’s Pies

Little expat hostelry in not-so-distant Yangzhou that delivers its home made Aussie pies all over China, run by Ronald Smith (a.k. Ronnie) and his Chinese wife Shi Wei who formerly ran an expat bar in Wuxi before uprooting to...

Solar Impulse 2; Better Late than Never

Should all bode well, one of the coming days may well finally be the one on which Solar Impulse 2 will finally touch down in Nanjing. Currently held hostage in Chongqing by unpredictable weather conditions along the route to...

Ronnie’s Pies

Recently, The Nanjinger’s attention was brought to a little expat hostelry in not-so-distant Yangzhou that delivers its home made Aussie pies all over China. Turns out the culprits are an Aussie by the name Ronald Smith (a.k. Ronnie) and...

About Me

Editor-in-Chief of The Nanjinger, Frank Hossack, is a multi-award winning Radio/TV host who has worked in China for the past 30 years. Frank has also written for Time magazine and The Times, appeared on the BBC and LBC, and been cited by CNN, China Daily and the New York Times, among many others.
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