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Names is for Tombstones, Baby! But not Maybe Nanjing’s Top

Initially skeptical of Fennel & Laurel due to its pretentious name, The Nanjinger was pleasantly surprised by exceptional carrot juice.   Fennel & Laurel, a Nanjing-born brand since 2019, has expanded to six locations, including Wuxi, Suzhou, and Hangzhou.   The café offers...

Anxi Tea Tours; And Abbés 4 Anxiety

When I lived in Beijing, students hoping to study abroad would travel half a day to a certain shrine, praying to receive an “offer”. They were practicing hieroglossia. That’s because they deemed the shrine’s name; 卧佛寺 similar enough to...

The Building of Nanjing (33); North Building of Jinling University

A cornerstone of modern Chinese education, blending Western academic traditions with Chinese cultural values, the legacy of Jinling University continues to this day, through the institutions it helped establish and the generations of scholars it educated. 作为现代中国教育的基石,将西方学术传统与中国文化价值观融合在一起,金陵大学的遗产一直延续到今天,通过它帮助建立的机构和它教育的几代学者。 With little doubt the...

How to Borrow an Umbrella from the Nanjing Metro (it’s Free too!)

Easy to overlook. You’ve been on the Metro for an hour to come outside and it’s bucketing down. And of course you did not bring an umbrella. Not a problem! For the Nanjing Metro is here to help. And...

The Building of Nanjing (32); Confucius Temple (Fuzimiao)

Intended as a place to worship and consecrate Confucius, Fuzimiao in Nanjing has seen its share of violence, the area around it having gone through ravishing epochs of change. 南京的福子庙旨在作为崇拜和奉献孔子的地方,它经历了暴力的份额,其周边地区经历了令人陶醉的变革时代。 The essence of Qinhuai River scenery and one of Nanjing’s two...

Teenage Kicks for a Rotten Old [Green] Fart

It’s teenagers who enjoy it the most. It’s there in so many of the snacks they eat. It is a horrifying rottenness. They love it. They are wrong to love it. Of course, many of these snacks of rottenness contain...

The Building of Nanjing (31); Nanjing Zhongshan Men (Gate)

Few others, if any, have been given a funeral procession such as this. Not only was it long, from Zhongshan Wharf in Nanjing’s northwest all the way to Purple Mountain, it was wide. 很少有人(如果有的话)被送上过这样的葬礼。 它不仅很长,从南京西北部的中山码头一直到紫山,而且很宽。 Roads along the entire route were...

Location, Tick; Design, Tick; Attitude, Tick x2; Taste, Ummm…

We’re going to start out by saying, for the record, that you’re not going to like this. That is, unless you are of a certain disposition. The first signs were excellent; a wander past during a recent Saturday lunchtime showed...

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