Eat your way through China
There’s nothing quite like a Peking Duck pancake. There’s just something about pungent game, sweet hoisin sauce and peppery onion that make it the perfect treat, with punchy flavours that tingle and dance along the palate.
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Concubine with a heart of gold decides China’s fate
On the hills outside Beijing is the spot where Ming general Wu Sangui decided the fate of China and millions of Chinese for centuries to follow
Discovering the best coffee in Beijing
Hannah Leung goes in search of a fine cup of joe in the celestial city. It wasn’t too long ago that Beijing’s coffee scene was limited to chain stores sporting the ubiquitous green logo. When a Starbucks opened in the Forbidden City in 2000, it was shut down seven years later amidst huge protests that an American coffee chain sitting in the middle of China’s top cultural and tourist attraction might not
Kitschy yet classy buffet fun
Sure, there are Western hotel buffet-brunches in Beijing to satisfy your gluttonous, elastic waistband wearing days, but plopping yourself down at a Chinese-run buffet boasting the same kind of indulgences is as much anthropological as it is decadent. Famously known amongst the Chinese is 金钱豹, or literally translated, Golden Jaguar.
China No 1 with a bullet (train)
Imagine taking a train from Shanghai to Beijing in less time than it takes to fly (once you factor in transport and security times), for a fraction of the cost and in comfort and safety at 300km/h. That experience will be available in the Middle Kingdom from July as China ramps up its super trains [...]
A rarefied Atmosphere
Atmosphere (云酷), Contemporary Air and Flair in Beijing The bar scene in Beijing once seemed incomparable to the sophisticated crowds of South Korea, Singapore, or Hong Kong, provided, of course you are searching for the sleek, industrial environment. But in a city where newer is almost always perceived as better and where places seldom [...]
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