Nanjing

Instagram users in Nanjing will have likely seen this treasure, and been possibly inspired to dine within. There, they would have then discovered a chest full of culinary loot. But first let’s backtrack a little. To open a F&B epicurean...

You know there is a sort of restaurant in every city. They often look small and unpretentious from the outside, despite their long-standing reputation in the community. They specialise in local favourites; nothing too fancy, but simply tasty and...

Muhammad Ali Yu Zhengui (余振贵) was a former Member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Former Vice President and Secretary General of the China Islamic Association. 余振贵是全国人民代表大会常务委员会前委员，中国伊斯兰协会前副主席兼秘书长。 Born in Nanjing in February, 1946, of Hui ethnicity, Yu...

So I’m a red risk all of a sudden. It’s a shock for someone who’s conjured only green codes from so many apps this past quarter-of-a-decade. My red code will be a shock for some reading this, too.  Perhaps, blissfully green for...

At 01:10 on 12 November, 1999, a fire broke out in the waiting room of Nanjing Railway Station. Later it would be discovered the cause was the aging of internal wiring. The fire quickly spread to the entire facility,...

Just as along many other backstreets in China, Diaoyutai (钓鱼台; fishing stage) plays host to an uneasy truce between pedestrians, cyclists and the occasional motorist wishing they had not been tempted by an apparent shortcut.  Under ordinary circumstances I would...

Have you ever thought of visiting the Confucius Temple (Fuzimiao; 夫子庙) area and sampling some local cuisine there? If so, you might have already been warned off by your Nanjing friends.  It is puzzling because the area indeed had a...

HRH E II R, Queen Elizabeth the Second. Her name has appeared in these pages twice before now.  And why would a Chinese tea column be concerned with the former monarch of the United Kingdom? Actually, Strainer first mentioned her as...