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P earl R iver D elta Follow Us on WeChat Now The Sex Advertising Hotline 400 820 8428 Issue 城市漫步珠三角 英文版 4 月份 国内统一刊号: CN 11-5234/GO We deliver China Intercontinental Press the goods APRIL 2014 4 April 2014 // www.thatsmags.com 《城市漫步》珠江三角洲 英文月刊 主管单位: 中华人民共和国国务院新闻办公室 Supervised by the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China 主办单位: 五洲传播出版社 地址: 北京市海淀区北三环中路31号生产力大楼B座7层 邮编100088 B-721 Shengchanli Building, No. 31 Beisanhuan Zhonglu, Haidian District, Beijing 100088, PRC http://www.cicc.org.cn 社长 President: 李红杰 Li Hongjie 期刊部负责人 Supervisor of Magazine Department: 邓锦辉 Deng Jinhui Chief Editor Tom Lee Deputy Editor Jane Kent Shenzhen Editor Gary Maidment Events and Web Editor Will Wu Staff Writer S. E. 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We talk to everyone, from parents and university students to prostitutes and strippers, to discover the joy of sex in the PRD. //10 CITY //14 CELLULAR ReGENERATION Patients and physicians are increasingly traveling to China for medical revolutions. //18 LIfe & STYLE //22 HORN OF PLENTY Cordyeps, the club-headed insect-plant that is worth twice its weight in gold. //28 ARTS //30 TREASURE He may have been locked out of heaven, but Bruno Mars has not been locked out of China. //58 EAT & DRINK //60 NEW NOSH Restaurant and bar reviews for Guangzhou and Shenzhen. 6 April 2014 // www.thatsmags.com //12 //24 //32 //46 CAB CLUB TuRKISH DELIGHTS ALL NIGHT LONG COUNTRY STRONG Instead of flailing your arms Istanbul overflows with markets A bit of say you, say me with Head out to the suburbs to desperately at passing taxis, hail a and minarets, but it's the cuisine soulful singer-songwriter Lionel discover a cornucopia of organic ride with these popular apps. that is a true feast for the senses. 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Follow Us on Tom Lee WeChat Now DESIGN WeChat ID: that's PRD Advertising Hotline Chief Editor 400 820 8428 城市漫步珠三角 英文版 3 月份 The Sex 国内统一刊号 CN 11-5234/GO : China Intercontinental Press facebook.com/thatsprd Issue BY JACK APRIL 2014 We deliver the goods weibo.com/urbanatomythat- LIN sprd twitter.com/thatsPRDmag www.thatsmags.com 8 April 2014 // www.thatsmags.com April 2014 // www.thatsmags.com 9 CITY Tales of THE ciTY Content from That’s Online // online.thatsmags.com DON’T SLIP IN POttY TraINING THE SUBWAY Firefighters had to be called after A 35-year-old office worker was a Shenzhen man wedged his found dead at the entrance to entire arm down a toilet trying to a Shenzhen metro station, after retrieve his glasses. The 35-year- collapsing and lying there for 50 old office manager, surnamed minutes. Liang Ya, a manager Zheng, was taking a shower in at IBM, reportedly fainted on TAKE ME BACK TO OLD CANTON his apartment on March 6, when the morning of February 17 he dropped his spectacles down near Exit C of Shui Wan Station Many expats wonder why Guangzhou isn’t called by its former (and the loo. He managed to retrieve on the Shekou line. She lay on more recognizable) name of Canton. The debate was brought to the his eyewear, but his limb became the ground for almost an hour Guangzhou People’s Congress recently, when a deputy suggested a stuck. After crying for help for before passersby sought out sub- name change would help in building the city’s image as an international three and a half hours, one of way staff, who called the police metropolis. Deputy Lei Jianwei pointed out that the name Canton was Zheng's neighbors eventually and emergency services. During known around the world for 200 years previously and that it would make heard him and contacted the that time, six people walked past sense considering the language spoken across Guangdong is known as emergency services. The bath- her unconscious body without ‘Cantonese.’ On paper, Guangzhou has always been Guangzhou. The city room's small size initially present- checking to see if she was okay. may have developed a global reputation as Canton, but it was never of- ed difficulties for the firefighters, Liang had died by the time an ficially deemed that. The origin of the name Canton is unknown, but is who had to break the toilet to ambulance arrived. believed to be based on a Portuguese mispronunciation. free Zheng. UNDY-hANDED NO WAY THREE A woman living in Shenzhen's WAY Longgang district became so sick Guangzhou police conducted a of a panty thief making off with late night raid on an adult ‘club’ her underwear that she set up a in a rented apartment in Tianhe, hidden camera to catch him in according to state media.