It is difficult to find information about The Home restaurant in either Chinese or English cyberspace, just like it is difficult to find a private kitchen from among the lookalike compounds in narrow hutong alleys around Beijing's Bell and Drum towers.
Take a nice young pig, weave a little Yucatan kitchen magic, and you get cochinita pibil, pork shoulder marinated and braised in achiote paste, orange juice, and lime. It's one of the treats being enjoyed at the Mexican Food Festival hosted by the consulate general of Mexico and the Crown Plaza Guangzhou City Center through Nov 11. Chef Mari Carmen Saenz, a longtime ambassador of traditional Mexican food, loves to bring her native cuisine to events in Asia, Europe and Africa. The complete buffet is 238 yuan ($37) per person plus 15 percent service charge.
The game is now taking baby steps as it seeks to gain favor with the public. Fans say that while you need to be able to ride a horse the rest can be learned in a matter of months. Yang Feiyue reports.
Liu Yatong is not a trained fashion designer, but that doesn't prevent the former marketing director from having a slot in the tricky world of fashion.
Watches & Wonders 2015, Asia's own version of the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva, ended earlier this month.
While most of China's revolutionary period TV productions prefer to feature political leaders or historical battles, a new series, The Waves, focuses on war correspondents.
Television channels and the online media need not necessarily be rivals. They can cooperate in an ever-growing market.
For many years, seeking to avoid comparison, artist Peng Wei has been unwilling to hold a show jointly with her father, Peng Xiancheng, who gained fame for traditional Chinese water-and-ink paintings decades ago.
Not too many people still weave Miao brocade these days. Not the traditional way Gan Xiaozhi does, with a loom, and hand pick to straighten silk and woolen threads, and then spinning out patterns that tell stories of the Miao ethnic group that doesn't have a written language.
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