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Benny Teddy Fish & Chips

Opened up over the last few months, Nanjing’s latest attempt at the British staple Fish’n’Chips is bang on the money, in some ways at least. Benny Teddy have gone to great lengths to project an air...

Street Bar

Decent drinking dens in Jiangning are hard to come by. Street Bar, despite the moniker, was until now, a cheapskate dive dating back to 2012 for nearby locals and students of Nanjing university of Aeronautics and Astronautics and across...

Ronnie’s Pies

Recently, The Nanjinger’s attention was brought to a little expat hostelry in not-so-distant Yangzhou that delivers its home made Aussie pies all over China. Turns out the culprits are an Aussie by the name Ronald Smith (a.k. Ronnie) and...

Nanjing Lvbo Yuan Golf Club

If golf is known (almost) the world over as the Gentleman’s Game, what of it here in China? An appendage to the exercise of gaining face or a sport in which friendships are solidified, deals are struck and exercise...

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...

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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