China riding high on a gastronomical tide
2011-06-01 08:25
As food is at the core of culture and lifestyle, gastronomy in China is as diversified as its 56 ethnic groups, 23 provinces, four municipalities, five autonomous regions and two special administrative regions, drawing on a 5,000-year-old heritage.
Chasing changing palates
2011-06-01 08:25
One of Bian Jiang's most vivid memories of Beijing in the 1980s was the long queues of people, waiting in the late autumn chilly wind, to buy large amounts of cabbages and sweet potatoes to take home.
Now, I enjoy 'dirty towels'
2011-06-01 08:25
The way to a man's heart is certainly through his stomach. I don't know about women, but if a city wants to keep her man, she needs to feed him well.
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2011-06-01 08:25
Sept 30, 1980: Beijinger Liu Guixian and her husband open Yue Bin Restaurant in Cuihua Hutong in Beijing, the first privately-run restaurant in China.

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China riding high on a gastronomical tide

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