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Whisky Wizard Raises the Bar for Nanjing

Move over Shanghai, Nanjing’s got a new guy in town and he’s raising the bar; the city’s whisky lounge scene just went up to an exciting new level! Keeping true to its name, the Bee’s Knees is run by...

Walter White Whisky Wows Nanjing

Not far from Hunan Lu, in a residential alleyway, lies The Hermit, a two-floor bar and restaurant of which you’ve likely never heard. Living up to its name, The Hermit is hidden away from the main road in what...

Doing the Limbo, New Nanjing Style

“How low can you go”, goes the song. “How high can you you fly”, might be more appropriate, at one of Nanjing’s newest Western eateries; high, as in the setting of the bar, and yes, high, in terms of...

Walk Nanjing Through the Decades

Nanjing is known for its many bridges and for being the former capital of China. On the other hand, many may not know that it is home to the Zifeng Tower, one of the tallest buildings in the world....

Ooh LaLu! Taiwanese Luxury Opens its Doors

You know when you walk into a really good eastern zen-styled spa frizzy and frayed from life outside, and then you walk out feeling the most relaxed you’ve felt in months? It is almost as if that massage or...

Feeling the Current on the Needle

As the medical community along all points between the East and West is still divided between whether or not acupuncture indeed has any sound scientific evidence at all as to its results, The Nanjinger was referred to an acupuncture...

Southern Capital Seized by Girl Power

Girl Gone International (GGI), a non-profit international community, based in over 140 cities around the world and a community solely for women, has now made its way to Nanjing. GGI hosted its launch event at Finnegans Wake Irish Bar...

Throw Another Shrimp on the Chinese Dollar

Shaping up to be Nanjing’s swankier, slightly posher and newer version of 1912 is Catherine Park. The new development sits adjacent to Nanjing’s tallest building, the Zifeng Tower, and is just off the Gulou roundabout near the square, diagonally...

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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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