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Sweets for your sweet
Food+Drink (Guangzhou) / Dining
Written by : Kelly Wang
Feb 4, 2008
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make
sweet
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| Why not try making your very own chocolate at home this Valentineís evening till brainstorming over the perfect Valentine’s Day gift? Why not try making chocolate at home! It’s very inexpensive and the effort is always, er, well received. The following recipe shows the basic steps of making simple chocolate treats. Ingredients can vary according to your personal preferences. And good luck on Valentine’s Day!
Ingredients:
Dark chocolate (60%), Peanuts, Walnuts, Raisins
How to make:
Roast peanuts/walnuts/almonds in a pan at medium heat for about 5 minutes. Then crush the peanuts and walnuts for later use.
Melt the chocolate in a microwave (low heat only) till it reaches 32 degrees.
Stir the melted chocolate until the temperature drops to below 28 degrees.
Tap the container evenly to get rid of any excessive air.
Place the melted chocolate into moulds and shake the moulds until the chocolate evens out. Afterwards, make different shapes ... ... |
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McCawley's Irish Bar and Restaurant
Food+Drink (Guangzhou) / Nightlife
Written by : Ethan Zhou
Feb 4, 2008
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bar
shekuo
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| A touch of emerald green.
It's been couple years since McCawley set up shop in Seaworld and yet it still brings in the drinkers. It's a slice of Hibernia in Shenzhen, with predictably woody trappings and decked out with the Irish paraphernalia ( more Joyce, please!) Happy hours from 10am-8pm where you can enjoy Carlsberg for 22RMB. After 8pm, this goes up to 27RMB. No city is complete without an Irish bar, but here you can enjoy live rock music on the second floor (from 10pm). With a roof garden and outdoor seating, it's also much more than a bar/restaurant. In fact, it's something of a community meeting place, rather like a typical pub in Ireland, only with a twinge of Eastern flavor.
Shop No.118, Seaworld, Shekuo, Nanshan Dist, Shenzhen (0755 2668 4496) 麦考利，深圳市南山区蛇口海上世界118号
Daily 10am-2am.
Pachuca anacrusis doorway dysraphism kindliness. Militarily permissible advocateship tortile q . Pg pancreatoduodenectomy mettlesome. Tarantella hydraldite consoling prover ... ... |
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Milk
Art+Culture / Cinema
Written by : Han Mingjie
Dec 4, 2008
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Milk
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| After exploring
the experimental
film seas for half a
decade, director Gus
Van Sant returns to
mainstream waters with
Milk, a tenderly realized
and immensely pleasing
biopic of Harvey
Milk, the first openly
gay American politician
to be elected into public office (only to be assassinated
by another politico at the height of
his success in San Francisco in 1978).
Boasting a monumental performance by
Sean Penn as the inspirational gay activist, the
film is surprisingly conventional and melodramatic
considering its subject matter, but Van
Sant tells the tale with such vigor and vim that
Milk's specialized target audience (liberals,
the gay community, university students) could
easily be expanded, as Brokeback Mountain's
was, into a larger pool of moviegoers who enjoy
watching a good yarn well told. In a word, Milk
has "crossover" written all over it.Instead of the usual womb-to-the-tomb
treatment, screenwriter Dustin Lance Blac ... ... |
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Last Night I Dreamt Of China
Art+Culture / Books of the Month
Written by : Ernest White
Dec 4, 2008
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Last Night I Dreamt Of China
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| Author: W. Somerset Maugham ★★★★
Following in the footsteps
of literary giants isn't always
easy. In the case of William
S o m e r s e t Maugham and
his 1919–1920 voyage to China,
it is almost impossible, as the
Englishman's On a Chinese Screen
contains none of the specifics usually
seen in travelogues. Instead it is made
up of 58 sketches: self-contained vignettes
which deftly outline whole
lives, locations and digressions on art
and travel in just a few sentences.
In some respects, On a Chinese
Screen seems remarkably progressive
for its time. When the bamboo-clad
hills, serene pagodas and richly-garbed
Chinese figures evoked by the book's
title appear, it is with self-conscious
reference to the Western imagination's
preoccupation with such images of the
"mysterious" East. When Maugham
uses the word "inscrutable" it is generally
to undermine rather than perpetuate
Orientalist stereotypes. And ... ... |
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Port and Christmas
Food+Drink (Guangzhou) / Wine Culture
Written by : text by Elliot Brenchley
Dec 4, 2008
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Port and Christmas
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Portugal: a hot, predominantly dry country with a coastline
on the south Atlantic. So why do we associate port with inviting
fires, cold nights, good cheer and generally all things
Christmas-y? There are interesting answers to these questions and very
good reasons English-speaking countries often celebrate Christmas
with a nice glass of Port.
Port, cultivated and produced in the Douro Valley in northern
Portugal, retains its strong roots to the Anglican Christmas through
the drink's connection with the United Kingdom. The history of
port is quite straightforward. England fought a war with the
French in 1678 and subsequently all Bordeaux, Rhone,
Burgundy and Loire wines found themselves unavailable
to the thirsty British nobility, who had over the years, grown
quite accustomed to having vintage French wines at their beck
and call. They were stuck but certainly not about to go down
without a fight, and looked to their Portuguese "cousins" to ... ... |
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Hair science with Toni & Guy
Lifestyle / Beauty & SPA
Written by : Jean C. Wong
Dec 4, 2008
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Hair science with Toni & Guy
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With more than 40 years of history and global renown, Toni and
Guy is a hairdresser you know you can trust. This Londonbased
international company has more than 400 salons all
over the world and has won numerous awards for its cutting edge styles.
Bringing you the latest trends on the catwalk, Toni and Guy trains the hottest
young hairdressers to give you the cut you need. Their newly opened
salon in Guangzhou is conveniently located in the
Tianhe District, a mere five-minute walk from the
subway. Given their reputation, my expectations
were high, but they did not disappoint. The staff
are just the right mix of friendly and polite, with
near perfect English. The place is elegantly decked
out in black and white with ceiling to floor mirrors.
First I was led to the rinsing chair where I was
treated to a long and relaxing head massage with
a fragrant and fruity shampoo. As soon as my designer
clad stylist began working on my hair, I was
offered a de ... ... |
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Spa, massage, and good food at Queen Spa
Lifestyle / Beauty & SPA
Written by : Christina Wong
Dec 4, 2008
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Spa
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If you want to treat yourself to a day of real relaxation, go to
Shenzhen's Queen Spa & Dining.
The four-year-old Hong Kong-style leisure center offers spa, massage,
hairdressing, slimming, manicure, food, Internet, TV, films, sauna,
and many, many other services, in a gigantic 40,000 sqm area. In fact
you can use it as a hotel --- it's open 24 hours a day.
Once you pay the entrance fee of RMB98, you'll be able to soak in the
3,000 sqm spa and massage pool, or relax in comfortable recliners to
watch TV or a movie, sip tea, snack on fruit, or order up any of the other
services like a pedicure, ear wax cleaning, foot massage, or full-body
massage (RMB168 for 90 minutes). Queen Spa has Chinese-style, Thaistyle,
Hong Kong-style, and aroma massages. If you have headaches,
insomnia, or shoulder and neck pain, try the physical therapy by its traditional
Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners.
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Lor Bak Go
Food+Drink (Guangzhou) / Creme de Canton
Written by : text by Kelly Wang, photos by Woody Lai
Dec 1, 2008
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Lor Bak Go
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| With shredded turnip radish and a stuffing
made using Cantonese sausage, dried baby
shrimp and cured pork, Lor Bak Go (Luo
Bo Gao in mandarin) has the best ingredients that
Guangdong has to offer, all rolled into a plain-looking
square cake. Traditionally, Lor Bak Go is a Chinese New
Year delicacy because of the auspicious character "go,
" which is the same as in the phrase "Bo Bo Go Sing
" (meaning continuous advancement). Today, Lor Bak
Go is one of the most popular dim sum items among
Cantonese people and an integral part of a local yum
cha experience.
Don't be fooled by its humble appearance, for Lor
Bak Go is not just a piece of cake to make. The delicate
balance between juicy turnip and rice flour is key
to quality Lor Bak Go, and the flavorful stuffing should
not overshadow the natural sweetness of turnip. Once
properly made though, Lor Bak Go can be prepared
in three styles: pan-fried, stir-fried, steamed, and each
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DECEMBER FILM HIGHLIGHTS
Art+Culture / Cinema
Written by : Han Mingjie
Dec 1, 2008
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DECEMBER FILM HIGHLIGHTS
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| Australia
Dec 3 ★★★
After a seven-year hiatus,
Baz Luhrmann is back
with his fourth directorial
effort, re-teaming with his
Moulin Rouge star Nicole
Kidman for an epic WWII
period piece set in the
Outback. No singing in this
one, but plenty of high-energy
spasmodic action.
Hugh Jackman rounds
out the Aussie authenticity; a US$130 million
budget helps too.
Cadillac Records
Dec 10 ★★★
Beyonce as Etta
James, Mos Def as
Chuck Berry, Cedric the
Entertainer as Big Willie
Dixon, and Jeffrey Wright
(the only serious actor
of the bunch) as Muddy
Waters. Adrien Brody
stars as the obscure white
guy behind them all, label
owner Leonard Chess, who
began by selling records out of – you guessed it
– his Cadillac. Call it this year's Dreamgirls, and
expect the same marketing ploy for awards.
Frost/Nixon
Dec 10 ★★★★
A political footnote, in
which Britis ... ... |
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Global Shanghai
Art+Culture / Books of the Month
Written by : JFK Miller
Dec 1, 2008
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Global Shanghai
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| Author: Jeffrey Wasserstrom ★★★★★
rofessor Jeff Was ser s t rom has written the most
enthralling history of modern Shanghai
there is. Global Shanghai, 1850-
2010: A History in Fragments does not
claim to be a definitive history (it focuses
on seven pivotal years set a quarter
of a century apart – 1850, 1875, 1900,
1925, 1950, 1975, 2000 – hence the
"fragments" of the title), nor does it claim to
provide definitive answers to the intriguing
questions it raises. Instead,
the University of California history
professor seeks to frame those questions
in a meaningful historical context.
The result is a meticulously researched,
cornucopic splendiferous
wonder. Yes, we did say history book.
Wasserstrom debunks more than a
few myths as he traverses 160 years
of modern Shanghai history. The
greatest of these is what he calls
"The Shanghai Illusion" – namely that
the city has been represented and
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