Today, I caught up with my friend Chozie, one of Beijing’s most adored DJ’s whose talents extend to event production and collaborations with some of the world’s hippest artists. A typical conversation with Chozie spans many topics and while I would love to let you in on all our conversations, I thought I’d give you [...]
Continue Reading →Set in the historic beautiful compound of 92 Nanchizi, a former residence of the Douergun Regent 400 years ago, fashionable ladies gathered for tales and inspiration told by Joanna Riley Weidenmiller (360Fashion), Lu Liu, and Elisabeth Koch.
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Continue Reading →Making strides in style: Women in fashion
Tuesday, April 26 — 6:30 pm
It’s spring and as the seasons change, so must the world of fashion. We invite you to experience the whims and stories of our fabulous women in fashion. Inspiring us for the evening…
Joanna Riley Weidenmiller — From decorated [...]
Continue Reading →Beijing, China — This past Saturday morning, I heard the call of the farm. Somewhere in Haidian district, birds were chirping, water was softening earth, artisans were selling their goods, and the cleanest of pigs were grunting with glee. Lauryne Massinga of Education USA China invited me to join her with Yan [...]
Continue Reading →From 163.com
Shandong province — A 39-year old vegetable farmer grew 6 Mu (1 Mu is equal to 666.667 square meters) of cabbages, the economic mainstay for his family: his parents, wife, two daughters, and himself. When harvest season arrived, the price fetched only 0.08RMB for 1 Jin (500 grams). That is [...]
Continue Reading →From Jinghua news
Premier Wen Jiabao said during a meeting that malicious food safety cases such as “tainted milk”, “lean meat powder”, “hogwash oil”, and “dyed buns” have shown a lack of trustworthiness and a collapse of morality reaching a serious state in China. If national citizens do [...]
Continue Reading →As questions about the safety of baby formula continues in China, Chinese scientists are going to soon help quell fears by offering an alternative source for milk: human breast milk produced by cows.
The move is somewhat similar to the recent push in the UK for human breast milk ice cream with one notable difference: [...]
Continue Reading →Reposting from Time Out Beijing
Time Out Beijing & Chi Fan for Charity invite you to join in with a city-wide fundraising event by eating out on Sunday 24 April at participating restaurants across Beijing.
As Japan has once again been hit by earthquakes and tsunami warnings, we at [...]
Continue Reading →Apparently safe to eat! I’ll eat blue cheese, blueberries, blue gum balls, but blue pork?
Miss Chen the purchased a kilogram of pork from a wet market on Yang Gao North Road the day before yesterday. That night her family used a portion of that pork to make dumplings together. [...]
Continue Reading →Beijing, China — While ShowShanti collaborator Juling He experienced making and eating sushi for the first time at Hatsune’s ‘Become a Sushi Samurai’ class, I stepped into Beijing’s own Nobu restaurant located nearby on the first floor of the JW Marriott.
With fish flown in from Japan [...]
Continue Reading →Many people are thinking of making different dishes every day, make the meals varied and nutritional fully. But there are students keeping eating steamed rice with yellow beans for every meal for 9 years in Guangxi province!
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