Seven years ago, Sous-Chef Frank Zhang was faced with a savory challenge. He and his team of four were handed a "Black Box" filled with, among other things, 10 apples, five beets, two onions, demiglass, a square of cream cheese, balsamic vinegar, two lamb legs - the ingredients for a three-course Western-style meal.
China's best young pianists will receive expert instruction from the world's best musicians at a new academy to open Beijing next year.
Jin Menghui looks tired. The label manager for China's biggest independent record company, Modern Sky, has just returned from Shanghai where a few of his bands played. The show, he says, was mildly successful but as opposed to Beijing, "Shanghai is not really a rock town". Jin has a reputation for working long hours and in a previous interview, he saw the reporter to a cab at 11pm before returning to run yet more tasks.
"Alan Chan is to the design world what Jackie Chan is to action movies," says a Hong Kong magazine. And they certainly have a point.
AMSTERDAM: The foundation that runs the tiny historical Dutch village of Bourtange announced it received an extraordinary 17th-century Dutch translation of Antiquities of the Jews by 1st century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (AD37-100).
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