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Wang Tiantian

La Mona Cafe

How do you fancy going to the Olympic Stadium for a delicious slice of pizza? Most enthusiastic, I hope! The big red British post box at the entrance of La Mona does a good job in...

La Mason

One cannot help but imagine what an ad for this locality would look like; an urban hipster sitting at a dining table with a hairstylist trimming her long mane of hair in the latest fashionable look, while the tattoo...

Beyond Materialism

Gucci, Rolex, BMW. Chinese social media tirelessly overflows with pictures of people flaunting their latest ludicrously priced possession; the combination of the rapid rise from extreme poverty to just as extreme wealth and the Chinese cultural phenomenon of “face”...

Da Le Vietnamese

With a superb location right at the heart of the city in IST Mall, Da Le Vietnamese Cuisine catches the eye due to its colourful décor bordering on but luckily just stopping short of gaudy. The...

New Age Workforce

The Internet. We all knew, when it emerged, that our lives were going to change drastically. Yet, only now are we beginning to realise the true extent of the transformation and, looking past all the gloomy...

The Wing

The quest to finding a good Italian option located neither in Xianlin nor the downtown area has finally been successful; but what a quest it is. While the location of the new “The Wing” Italian restaurant could not be...

Binjiang Inlining

For the “inliners” amongst us, the arrival in Nanjing, an entirely unfamiliar turf, brings with it the big question; where to skate?  With the madness that is the Chinese driving style and “bikeways” that are stuffed...

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