A Chinese option in uncertain times

Situated off a busy shopping street, its one room decorated with red paper lanterns, pictures of the Great Wall and kungfu celebrities Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, it can be that ubiquitous Chinese restaurant in any city in the world.

Except that it is in Iraq.

Opened in Baghdad earlier this year, the eatery is thought to be the city's only non-Iraqi restaurant and possibly the only non-Arab business there - other than a handful huddled in the fortified, sealed-off Western enclaves.