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Ten years ago, Dong Keping would have eaten a platter of braised and fried intestines without hesitation. The "nine-twist" pork chitterlings are a famous Shandong specialty that is deliciously rich, aromatic and crisp. But Dong, a Beijing gourmet and editor of a popular food program on radio, now thinks twice before ordering, his eye firmly on his medical reports. Many Chinese dishes that were once popular are declining or disappearing, as a rapidly evolving society changes its eating habits, in response to changing times.
Sunday Digest
BEIJING - China's central bank may cut the interest rate in the second and third quarters this year, as the economies in the EU and US slow down further while domestic inflation pressure gradually eases, economists said on Saturday.
Sunday Profile
It is hard to change when people have very fixed expectations of how and what you should serve, but within those perimeters, Fangshan Restaurant's executive chef Li Shuangjin still acknowledges market trends.
Sunday People
Kenny Fu started his culinary training as a Western chef, and then got exposed to classical Chinese elements in a fusion restaurant. He has now gone full circle.
Sunday Image
In an airport in northern China, six pilots sit confidently in the sun, each in the cockpit of a gleaming J-10 jet fighter.
Sunday Sports
MARANA, Ariz. - Lee Westwood had every reason to pack light for the Match Play Championship. He never made it out of the second round in his 11 previous trips to this tournament, and he never could understand why.
Sunday Food
To hear executive chef Tino Giuseppe talk about the way he creates menus at Le Meridien's upscale Italian restaurant at People's Square, you might think taste is a secondary consideration.
Sunday Style
Jason Wu has arrived, and the confidence he's feeling in his emerging success was evident at New York Fashion Week earlier this month, where his dramatic show featured a collection inspired partly by his Chinese roots.
Sunday Kaleidoscope
Wang Yirong was a scholar and high ranking official in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), and we would never have known his name if he had not fallen ill one day with malaria in 1899. To make him feel better, he was given a prescription by his doctor that included "dragon bones".
Sunday Travel
Even on uncharacteristically sunny days, it's a lonely walk from the closest tube stop to London's forthcoming 200-hectare Olympic Park. But after reaching the 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium - skeleton in place and awaiting its exterior sheeting - I found hundreds of other construction-site rubber-neckers clogging the sidewalk. The tourist crush was seemingly what the Olympic bid committee had in mind when it proposed London's East End, about a dozen underground stops northeast of fixtures like Big Ben, as the epicenter of the competition, which begins July 27.
