Beyond the virtual

Benlai Cookhouse offers a tasty "offline experience" with ingredients sold on the fresh-food platform Benlai.com, Liu Zhihua reports.

The Beijing native has been cooking in famous Italian restaurants, such as Armani, Pastarito and Nobu, since the late 1990s, before returning to his hometown in 2005. He has catered for foreign embassies in Beijing, and once cooked for a Greek president and also for a mayor of Milan.

Today, after more than two decades in professional kitchens, Guo Qiang cooks for the online universe.