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Table Manners; Dining Etiquette in China

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For this column’s last outing, we look at something not often associated with the everyday Chinese dining experience; etiquette and table manners. Often met with surly service staff and spitting, smoking and belching patrons, it is easy to assume...
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Pairing Wine with Chinese Food; Orient and Occident in Harmony

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Once preposterous to some, it is now virtually general knowledge that good wine definitely does go well with Chinese food; the trick lies in choosing the right wine. Cracking open a bottle of your favourite dark red and sipping it...
Feature Stories

The Sixth Sense; Calculating Tarot’s Rise in China

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Down a an alleyway off the beaten path of the bohemian Old Town in Changsha, Hunan Province, between a vape and a skate shop, hangs a circular sign bearing the Chinese characters for Tarot (塔罗). It points deeper into...
Chomping Thru China

Fungi Fever & the Shroom Boom

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Health focused businesses that centre around prodigy foods christened “super” is most definitely in vogue. Recently, trendy trailblazers or “people brands” have magicked up fresh interest in the otherwise forgotten fungi; the Shroom Boom is putting mushrooms back on...
Local Reviews

Reality Check; Bread, Check; Sourdough, Check; Café, Check

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Born in Scotland and raised in England, Isabelle Ma, owner and head chef at Real Bread Cafe in downtown Xinjiekou, speaks with conviction and passion when it comes to her life; cafe and bread. “Being a chef in Europe...
Nanjing News

Nanjing Foreign Affairs’ Day Hailed as Great Success

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Saturday 23 March, 2019, saw the official opening of one of the most influential organisations relevant to the Nanjing international community, the Nanjing Foreign Affairs Service Association (NFASA), in Xianlin in the city’s Qixia District.  The ceremony was held before...
Regional News

1-Day-Old Baby Deer Spotted At Jiangsu Nature Reserve

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Last Thursday, 13 March, 2019, a 1-day-old baby deer was spotted at the Dafeng David’s Deer nature reserve some 300 kilometres east of Nanjing on the coast of Jiangsu in Dafeng, near to Yancheng City. The “four unlikenesses” of Dafeng...
Chomping Thru China

Xigua; International Influence on Chinese Food

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Food to the Chinese is everything. It is that for which life is worth living; no big decisions are made without first a feast, gatherings are not gatherings without food. Traditionally, being overweight in China was a sign of wealth,...
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