I have to admit: I get very confused when people talk about Malaysian food. That is because the cuisine is dramatically different in every Malaysian town. The laksa of Penang is worlds apart from the Cantonese-inspired seafood dishes served in Kota Kinabalu, and Kuala Lumpur eateries dish up Hainan chicken rice that doesn't exist on Hainan island.
For one reason or another, Spanish cuisine, arguably the world's hottest thing on the dining table nowadays, finds little place in China's food metropolis, Shanghai.
Since the company was founded in July 2012, there has been a new Wanda hotel opening up every 10 days or so, bringing the total number to 46. As the new kid on the block, if Wanda Hotels & Resorts wanted the industry's attention, it has certainly captured the eyeballs.
When you hear that a hotel's newest property in China embraces a theme of the ancient Tea Horse Caravan Trail, you might conjure a mental picture that's rather rustic: traders hauling Yunnan tea to Tibet to exchange for sturdy farm horses.
There is a gallery of assassins in Records of the Grand Historian, China's best-known history book, which is over 2,000 years old. Playwright Xu Ying did not pick Jing Ke, the most often retold of them all, but "the most extreme one" in his eyes.
A swarm of flies struck the opening of pop art pioneer Andy Warhol's show on Sept 29 at the Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts. Coincidentally, the German Fluxus-movement artist Joseph Beuys' show had also been hit by flies at the same place two weeks earlier.
With her debut album, Everything in the World, which achieved multi-platinum status in China within weeks after its release in 2012, singer-songwriter Qu Wanting now has almost everything in a musician's world: a big fan base, a clutch of awards and a promising future in the music industry.
Australian-born singer-songwriter Lenka Kripac, better known as Lenka, will kick off her first China tour in support of her new album, The Shadows. It marks her transition to being a new mother, an independent singer-songwriter and her departure from the upbeat commercial hits on her previous two albums, such as The Show and Trouble Is a Friend.
There is an unbridled passion in Peter Herrndorf's voice when he speaks about the power of music to capture and captivate people, to transform their interactions into something approaching the symphonic. "Music is a powerful way of connecting people," he says. "Sometimes language is a way of separating people; music is a way of bringing them together."
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