New York's ethnic eats, partly because they tend to be inexpensive, are getting a lot of column inches at the moment, but Ethiopian rarely gets a look in.
November 2009 Archives
I hope Prez Obama had time to slurp some Shanghai soup dumplings in between talking Internet censorship with the city’s students this week. Fast and fatty, they’re the perfect snack for on-the-go world leaders with (reputed) weight loss issues, and they were the best thing I ate in Shanghai
Are these the next Havaianas? I think they might be. (And if you’ve been hiding out in the Arctic for the last few years, Havaianas are the Brazilian flip-flops that went global, in a big way). Feiyue sneakers are from Shanghai, and the design dates from the 1920s.
Not much has changed in the Forbidden City in the last 600 years, but tourists are no longer able to wander the imperial palace with a Green Tea Frappuccino
London Times columnist David Aaronovitz wrote today that, post Iraq, democracy is out of fashion. Stability is the new democracy, he laments
The first thing you should do in Beijng? Get out of Beijing. Because the area's most mind-blowing attraction isn't in the city, it's two hours north east of it.
The old and the new, it seems, have a less easy relationship than those unlikely Chinese bedfellows capitalism and consumerism. But the old is still just about there in Shanghai—shrinking daily, razed to make way for yet more skyscrapers, but there if you look hard enough.
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