The Nanjinger

A year or so into operations at The Ritz-Carlton, Nanjing, three things are apparent as to the dining therein. That the quality of ingredients employed is second to none, that attention to detail is at a level to be...

Roman law has long been strongly admired by legal professionals and scholars in China. From the Ming dynasty, when Italian missionaries visited China, to the year 2021, when the first Civil Code of PRC came into effect, it has...

Today, Nanjing is host to a small variety of halal-certified restaurants. One can find Turkish fare in Xianlin, Xinjiang-style barbeque and dishes throughout each district, local Nanjing cuisine in Gulou and simpler, cheaper Northwestern Chinese fare in your next-door...

Root Inn is no ordinary bar. The award-winning décor is a pun on the name with a rather curious combination of themes; computer-inspired (as in the root directory) and plant-inspired (as in, well, plant roots). The dark interior is...

Yang Buwei (杨步伟) was the lady who coined the term “Stir Fry”, in a landmark, war-time recipe book on Chinese cuisine that would stop just short of earning her a Nobel Peace Prize. Born in Nanjing in 1889, Yang was...

Opposite the entrance to the Chaotiangong underground car park, Le Bar has become a watering hole for B-list actors and actresses working with a film director based in the up-and-coming, adjacent creative park. And friends and acquaintances of the owner,...

Open source refers to a computer program in which the source code is available to the general public for use or modification.  From a legal point of view, the peculiarity of open-source software is that the original developer(s) (who would...

Today, the Muslim population in Nanjing might best be described as mostly hailing from Northwestern provinces (Gansu and Ningxia; traditionally more Muslim-populated centres), with a growing, foreign-born community. Due to the tricky identity issue of having the “Hui” ethnicity...