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Personal touch to excite the palate

[2011-03-09 08:04]

For a blueprint of Nobu Beijing, which will hold its grand opening next month, and its executive chef Oyvind Naesheim, look no further than that concoction of oil, garlic, spices and dried shrimp known as XO sauce.

Rejuvenate your jaded taste buds

[2011-03-09 08:04]

Oyvind Naesheim, executive chef at Nobu Beijing, said he wants to use fermented black beans to add a twist to Beijing's beloved zha jiang mian, thick noodles topped with ground pork stir-fried in the salty, bitter and sweet soybean paste.

What's On

[2011-03-09 08:04]

EXHIBITS

Famed coastal city center for marine products, shipping

[2011-03-07 08:00]

Our famed coastal city Qingdao in Shandong province has mapped out plans to be a forerunner in the country's ocean economy by 2015 and a crucial part of the Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone.

Zones to enhance oceanic economy

[2011-03-07 08:00]

Ren Zhengang, director of the construction office at the Qingdao Blue Economic Zone, said a number of zones will be developed to expedite the city's marine economy.

Step up

[2011-03-06 07:48]

Hong Kong

Foreign faces: laowai TV stars tell all

[2011-03-06 07:48]

While the country's manufacturing industry may be taking a hit with exchange rate fluctuations and the housing market has its ups and downs, one industry is undoubtedly growing: entertainment. The country has more than 1 billion television viewers and at least 350 million households have television sets. China's film industry has also enjoyed a boost in the last few years. Last year, there was a 15 percent increase in locally produced films compared to 2009, according to media research firm EntGroup. China's film industry saw revenues of about 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) last year, up from 6 billion yuan in 2009.

Seven Days

[2011-03-06 07:48]

MARCH 6 / BEIJING

From the low life, makings of high art

[2011-02-27 07:58]

LONDON - For all its chandeliers-and-Champagne style, opera has long enjoyed a voyeuristic interest in low life. Half its heroines are fallen women, briefly flourishing in sin and paying in the end. But opera's love affair with sleaze took on a new dimension when Anna Nicole Smith, the buxom Playboy centerfold and tabloid-culture princess (who died of an accidental drug overdose in 2007) took to the lyric stage.

Underground, Latin songs of love, longing

[2011-02-27 07:58]

Luis Tigre boarded the uptown D train with two colleagues one recent morning to go to work. But unlike the other commuters on board, the three had already reached their job.

Cubism that struck a chord

[2011-02-27 07:58]

It's 1912, and Pablo Picasso is in Paris, thinking: All right, what's next?

List aims to reverse drivers' bad habits

[2011-02-21 07:37]

A new ploy by transport chiefs to tame Beijing's unruly road users may be too soft to curb the behavior of most motorists, experts told METRO on Sunday.

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