Black Sesame Kitchen: unexpected insight into Chinese history

A few days ago, my colleague introduced Jen Lin-Liu as a chef, writer, and owner of the a restaurant in Beijing, Black Sesame Kitchen. Tonight, I had the opportunity to go to Black Sesame Kitchen...

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January 5, 2011

Dai food: Chinese cuisine’s best-kept secret

Dai food: Chinese cuisine’s best-kept secret. While most of China is frozen or at least quite cold, there are still some parts of the country’s south that are enjoying shorts and t-shirt weather during the...

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January 4, 2011

New High-speed Rail Lines to Connect China’s East and West

While many countries are talking about the travel possibilities afforded by high-speed rail, China is busy turning those possibilities into on-the-ground realities. On January 11, two new high-speed rail lines will connect Shanghai to two...

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Man looking after cattle on the Tibetan plateau

January 3, 2011

Ecotourism in Changqing Reserve: Paving the way for conservation in 21st century China

Ecotourism in Changqing National Nature Reserve: paving the way for conservation in 21st century China. Prior to arriving here in China, I didn’t know much about China’s natural wonders beyond pandas. For me, China was...

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December 30, 2010

China: A bird-watching gem

A photo of a Purple Swamphen taken at Caohai Lake China: A bird-watching gem We read with interest recently that over a five-day period bird watchers found more than 60 different species of birds in...

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December 29, 2010

Chinese food expert Jen Lin-Liu explains: “It’s a generational thing.”

“It’s a generational thing,” Liu says. Though previous generations of women felt pressure to cook for their families, most women today can choose.

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December 28, 2010

Hitting the Hot Pot

Growing up, my parents owned a hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant in a small town in northern Tennessee. Every day for the sixteen and a half years that this restaurant was open, I watched my dad cook...

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December 24, 2010

The Street Eater

The charm of these stands comes from men (typically) tending their grills, as well as the diverse clientele of the chuar stands.

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December 22, 2010

Happy Dongzhi! Celebrating the winter solstice in China

Tangyuan, or balls made from sticky rice flour are a popular food to celebrate the winter solstice. As we look forward to a gradual lengthening of daylight and the eventual arrival of summer, WildChina wishes...

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December 21, 2010

Holiday Hours 2010-2011

WildChina’s U.S. office will be closed from Thursday, December 23 to Monday, December 27. It will reopen on Tuesday, December 28, 2010. Both the U.S. and Beijing office will be closed on Monday, January 3,...

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