If there’s one food that’s emblematic of everyday indulgence, that’s chocolate.
Delicious for most of us yet inextricably connected with fat, sugar (and caffeine, if you’re worried about that).
When my 4-year old daughter went for her second tooth-filling last month,...
A miserable Friday lunchtime in late January saw our arrival to find a table of four young men plus a child, a woman and her daughter, plus a sole foreign lady upstairs, all tucking in.
Named after Gaziantep, famed for...
With Nanjing as capital of China prior to Beijing, so too it was home to the embassies of many countries during the Republican era. Some are well preserved, still standing strong to this day and open to the public,...
The tea was oolong, with just a hint of Formosa-perfume-tanginess. Or was it a hint of detergent? Anyway, this was a nice restaurant, too nice for pouring spilt water onto the floor.
This was a rare lunch with my teenage...
These days in Nanjing, one is hard pressed to go out for lunch or dinner and not spend ¥200 per head. Anywhere decent, that is.
Hence it was a pleasant to be meandering through the MixC downtown and come...
Tea is supposed to be zero calories. So what is this shiny slick on the surface of yesterday’s drink?
It’s like the blue-brown façades of blocks in China’s fourth tier. It’s like a rolled scarab carapace. It’s like the squeezed...
Swan Lake, Macbeth, Tosca, Don Quixote and Cats are among the globally renowned productions to have been staged in the Jiangsu Grand Theatre, known formally as the Jiangsu Centre for the Performing Arts.
《天鹅湖》、《麦克白》、《托斯卡》、《堂吉诃德》和《猫》是江苏大剧院（正式名称为江苏表演艺术中心）上演的全球知名作品之一。
And those well known productions have been...
Somewhat contrary to the very nature of this part of this humble publication, we’re not here for the food. For at Foodgasm, that speaks for itself.
But we would need our heads examined if we were not to indulge. Let’s...
