Suntory’s bottled “Black Oolong Tea” is an institution, as well loved in China as in its native Japan. And here it is, refrigerated and available for purchase, in the UK.
Always the stingy skinflint, I resent paying three times the...
That it was the last Sunday of the summer holiday probably didn’t help. And Xinjiekou at its busiest certainly pushed home the point evidencing Nanjing’s latest dining sensation.
Hence it was sitting outside in the sweat or not at all...
Juxtaposition is where it’s at for a new mini exhibition running in Nanjing that will have you thinking about 21st Century life in alternate ways.
For how do simple building blocks resonate so deeply that they become fundamental to a...
Just as compasses do in China, the statue of Sun Yat-sen in Nanjing’s Xinjiekou that marks the very centre of our City, faces south. Perhaps out of respect for the accepted way of doing things, but more pragmatically so...
Nanjing is continuing to take its baby steps toward being a truly international city, quite literally. Hence, we should be mindful of those with newborns and do some of the legwork. How to change a nappie on the Nanjing Metro?
First...
I need to cut back. We’ve overspent this month.
When I look back, I don’t know whether it’s the newly-printed poster board on my wall which I’ll point to as “peak-splurge”.
Maybe it will be the sailing sun-hat from the French...
Getting a train onto a ferry is a big deal, even today. Apart from the fact that trains are just plain heavy, they require the building of trestle bridges for the embarking/disembarking of locomotives and carriages. All very well,...
This correspondent hails from a small town in the Scottish Highlands. Remote it may be, but that hasn’t stopped it from having one of the highest-rated Indian restaurants in the UK. This, he feels, combined with the facts that,...
