In Belgium, where robust monastic-style beers and fried potatoes are an art form, fragrant steamed mussels are the pride of the table. This week, guest chef Olivier Van Weijnen from Chez Leon, a Brussels restaurant, brings these delicate shellfish and other traditional dishes to the Chapter restaurant buffet at Beijing's Conrad hotel. A goblet of the abbey St Feuillien's beer, made specially for Chez Leon, makes the whole experience almost religious. Dinner buffet is 328 yuan ($52) plus 15 percent service charge.
A heritage conservationist from the US has been working on a Dunhuang cave for decades, with happy results, Liu Xiangrui reports.
In April 1971, members of a US table tennis team became the first American athletes to visit China before the two countries established diplomatic relations. The sport helped to pave the way for Richard Nixon to come to Beijing in February of the following year. Two months after the US president's visit, Chinese table tennis players were invited to the United States.
Traditional cultural activities of different ethnic groups in China, including the Yi people's celebrations when they chase field pests with torches, the khoomei singing among the Mongolians and antiphonal chanting of the Miao people, are all part of the ongoing Fourth China Ethnic Groups Arts Festival.
One of the most translated novellas globally, The Little Prince has reportedly found its way into 253 languages and dialects, selling as many as 200 million copies, but has rarely been made into a film.
The Phantom of the Opera, a hit musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, staged its first show in Guangzhou city in Guangdong province on Sept 22. The southern Chinese city is the second location on the mainland, after Shanghai, to host the show that is scheduled to be staged in Beijing in November.
Shanghai's efforts to bring art to the people are paying off, as more than 4 million people are expected to participate in the ongoing China Shanghai International Arts Festival.
On Oct 10, more than 200 people in their 50s were at a lecture hall at the National Library of China, singing in chorus: "(We) enjoy the caress of spring together, and go through winds and rains together."
More funds, greater awareness needed to preserve one of the world's ancient wonders, Wang Kaihao reports.
For foreign auction houses that aren't legally allowed to sell Chinese antiquities on the mainland, an important strategy is to create new collection fields.
A three-storied house in a narrow lane in downtown Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province, appears to be a museum with a large-scale exhibition going on.
A Shanghai entrepreneur in the fishery business didn't think restaurants were doing his prized hairy crabs justice on the plate. That's why he started his own restaurants, he tells Xu Junqian on one of his boats on Taihu Lake.
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