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Unassuming Little Shop; Fantastic Value Pizza

As if in Santorini, a storefront with only a small door and decoration that is mainly a Mediterranean blue. Neat and elegant, 800 Degree Pizza has a couple for its owners. After welcoming the guests, they go quietly to...

Top Chefs + Dancers + Drivers = Fresh Color!

A beautiful woman standing next to a car is not necessarily a model. In fact, she is a champion racing driver. Nanjing girl, Yang Jinhan, is the driver in question, and one who is also a dance teacher. She...

Which Tea Brand Best Compliments Your Private Jet?

Strainer readers may recall, about 3 years ago, reading about a new concept in tea preparation. It was called InWE Tea (因味茶). It exerted on the tea leaf high pressure as well as high heat, much like brewing an...

Breakfast of Champions; A Plate of “Guotie”

The best tastes are always hidden in the corners. If you want to dine like a local, Qijiawan comes highly recommended. Once crowded with abbatoirs and cowhide makers; indeed even now, Nanjing locals still buy beef around this area;...

Retro is Red; Vintage is in

Take metro line 3, get off at Wuding Men, walk down Changle Lu and turn left when you see a flower shop. Be attracted immediately by the vivid yellow decoration around the corner; our destination. Fashionable girls wearing oversized shirt...

Long Time, Long Jing No See

there were some TV commercials for Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. Various respectable-looking adults found themselves restricted for choice at breakfast time, while camping or abroad, perhaps... Anyway, they were forced by circumstance to eat Corn Flakes. “I’d forgotten how good they...

Pizza Express China Arm in Nanjing

Is Pizza Marzano the same as the British Pizza Express? Yes... and no. Yes in so far as Pizza Marzano is the China arm of the infamous UK name; no in so far as it is no longer British, being bought...

The Human Touch; Downtown and Unpretentious Coffee

Is it the last day of a 6-day week? How did your son do on his last exam? Where are you going on holiday? These are each just a sample of that you might overhear drinking a cup of...

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Shanghai’s Railway Map Shifts East; Cross City to Hongqiao soon but a Memory

For years, Shanghai’s high-speed rail map has pulled passengers towards Hongqiao. That balance is beginning to change. New stations...

Shiseido Sues Aldi over a ¥24.9 Primer that Resembles Its ¥540 Rival

Shiseido has sued Aldi China, the product's manufacturer and an Aldi Shanghai store operator over unfair competition, arguing that...

Forty Tables Became Twenty; Then the Bookings Stopped

Susu has sold wedding banquets at one of the biggest hotels in her small town in northern China for...

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