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Is Key to Italian Cuisine a Little Too Much of Everything?

That it was the last Sunday of the summer holiday probably didn’t help. And Xinjiekou at its busiest certainly pushed home the point evidencing Nanjing’s latest dining sensation. Hence it was sitting outside in the sweat or not at all...

Lego, Love, 2D & 3D Collide in Nanjing’s Smallest Exhibition

Juxtaposition is where it’s at for a new mini exhibition running in Nanjing that will have you thinking about 21st Century life in alternate ways. For how do simple building blocks resonate so deeply that they become fundamental to a...

The Building of Nanjing (28); Statue of Sun Yat-sen

Just as compasses do in China, the statue of Sun Yat-sen in Nanjing’s Xinjiekou that marks the very centre of our City, faces south. Perhaps out of respect for the accepted way of doing things, but more pragmatically so...

Using the Baby Changing Facilities on the Nanjing Metro

Nanjing is continuing to take its baby steps toward being a truly international city, quite literally. Hence, we should be mindful of those with newborns and do some of the legwork. How to change a nappie on the Nanjing Metro? First...

Belt-Tightening Beckons; Before the Penny Pinching

I need to cut back. We’ve overspent this month. When I look back, I don’t know whether it’s the newly-printed poster board on my wall which I’ll point to as “peak-splurge”. Maybe it will be the sailing sun-hat from the French...

The Building of Nanjing (27); Nanjing Railway Ferry

Getting a train onto a ferry is a big deal, even today. Apart from the fact that trains are just plain heavy, they require the building of trestle bridges for the embarking/disembarking of locomotives and carriages. All very well,...

Saddle up, Nanjingers! There’s a New Indian in Town

This correspondent hails from a small town in the Scottish Highlands. Remote it may be, but that hasn’t stopped it from having one of the highest-rated Indian restaurants in the UK. This, he feels, combined with the facts that,...

The Building of Nanjing (26); Nanjing South Railway Station

Nanjing South Railway Station perhaps might have never become a reality. And at the heart of the matter was a 3-year-long disagreement between the Ministry of Railways and the Nanjing urban planning authorities.  南京南站可能永远不会成为现实。 事情的核心是铁道部和南京城市规划主管部门之间长达3年的分歧。 It was in December of 1994...

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