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2 | GZ | JUNE 2018 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM WIN WIN WIN Editor's Note JUNE 2018 Like many folks who find themselves living a half-day’s flight from their family and friends, on another continent, in a foreign land, it was a love of Hourly updates on news, current affairs and general weirdness from around travel that brought me to South China. It’s been three-and-a-half years since Shanghai and China. I moved here, and in that time Guangzhou has cemented itself as a second home. Now, at times, life here doesn’t seem so exotic anymore and when FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA vacation time rolls around, I often find myself browsing photos of stunning facebook.com/thatsonline South Pacific beaches, rugged Himalayan peaks and the stunning Islamic twitter.com/thatsonline architecture of Central Asia. We’re giving away tickets to With summer now upon us (and summer vacation, for those of our youtube.com/thatsonline readers working in the education industry), we’ve chosen to devote this some of the very best events month’s cover story to all things travel. On pages 46-49, I share 10 ‘dream in the Pearl River Delta, #THATSSHANGHAI destinations’ in the Asia-Pacific region, as chosen by three China-based travel industry veterans. Dominic Ngai, editor-in-chief at That’s Shanghai, alongside a host of free meals explores how domestic tech trends are shaping the way young Chinese and other goodies. Follow people travel on pages 38-43, and we offer some exciting package tours on page 44. our official WeChat feeds Before I wrap this up and let you carry on to the ‘meat’ of this issue, I and sign up for our weekly want to note that we are now taking pre-orders for the second edition of our Explore China travel guide, which will be published later this summer. Flip newsletter for your chance to ThatsGuangzhou to page 37 to reserve your copy now! win major prizes! To stay up to Until next month, PRDers, date, visit www.thatsmags. com or scan the QR codes below and follow our WeChat accounts.

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WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | JUNE 2018 | GZ | 3 6 CITY 38 COVER STORY CHINA ON THE MOVE 7 QUEEN OF CLEAN The art and science behind winning over digital-savvy chinese Of mice and the men’s millennial travelers. room. 14 SZUMMER PRIDE Celebrating LGBT lives in the PRD.

16 LIFE & STYLE 64 EVENTS 18 HOT ON TAOBAO GZ Star Wars lightsaber umbrella. 20 INSIDE OUT Gutting and redesigning an old fishing village house.

JUN 8-9 Scenes from a Marriage

GZ 28 ARTS

29 DIRTY FINGERS Shanghai’s rowdiest punk rockers on staying DIY and touring the world. JUN 18 36 SHENZHEN ZEN Secondhand Rose Life, love and misadventure in the HK Middle Kingdom.

MAY 18-20 54 EAT & Akram Khan's Giselle

DRINK MO

58 SCRUMPTIOUS IN XIAOBEI Eating our way through a United Nations of flavor. 60 PANDAN JUN 29-30 A sublime comeback. Celine Dion THE WRAP

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Pen to Paper The winners of the That's PRD Writing Contest, p10 CITY

City Snapshot SZUMMER Pride P8 P14

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THE DIRTY DETAILS QUEEN OF CLEAN Monthly income: RMB4,000 Of Mice and the Men’s Room Days per week: 6 By Matthew Bossons Hours per day: 12

ublic washrooms in China situation inside the lavatories is water pressure is often subpar, the washroom’s piping in the are by no means known grim. They’ve been unattended something she attributes to the evenings to scrounge for food. Pfor their ‘loiter-ability.’ since 11pm the night before, water consumption habits of the Wang tells us that the city Although we presume there are when Wang finished the folks in the apartments above the sanitation department has exceptions out there, they tend previous day’s 12-hour shift. public lavatory. provided her with poison to to smell bad (often a combo of (Wang enjoys a two-and-a-half- She muses aloud that her dispatch the rodent, but so far it human waste and burn-your- hour lunch and nap break). job would likely be easier with has failed to work. nostrils industrial cleaners) In her absence, human waste higher water pressure. “The poison is supposed to and the sight of a steaming and discarded sanitary pads When asked if she works be nontoxic and not dangerous pile of feces resting in an have festered, unchallenged, alone, Wang nods and tells to humans, which is good,” says unflushed squatty-potty is not all night long and the morning us that her job is a solo one. Wang. “The problem is it appears uncommon. stench is horrendous. Although she has regular visitors: the poison is not dangerous to For most, visiting a roadside With mop and bucket in men from a washroomless rats either.” public restroom is a trip that is hand, she sets to work cleaning. warehouse located nearby stop Like the stench and grime, only undertaken when ‘nature First it’s the men’s toilets, in often to use the facility, as though, the rat doesn’t appear calls’ and there are no other which, she tells us, are always well as boozers at a beer bottle to bother or disgust Wang in options within the immediate the dirtier of the two gender- shop across the road. There is the way one might assume. area. For others, a day spent at a segregated washrooms. After also a rat, who emerges from Maybe she has grown used to community toilet is just another that she tackles the women’s it, having previously worked on day on the job. side of the facility. the sanitation team in an office Ms. Wang moved from If cleaning up the urine, building – a job she ranks Hunan to Guangzhou five years crap, alcohol-scented vomit lower than her current ago and has spent the past five and blood of others bothers cleaning gig on Jianshe Wu months working as a sanitation Wang, it certainly doesn’t Malu. worker at a dingy public show – nor does she complain “As a public sector job, I washroom on Jianshe Wu Malu. about it. The soft-spoken get to enjoy public holidays,” She arrives at work each Hunanren has only one says Wang. “This allows time to morning at 8.30am and the complaint: the washroom’s visit my hometown in Hunan.”

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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY RANDOM NUMBER The PRC Gets the H-Bomb On June 17, 1967, the People’s Republic of China announced a successful hydrogen bomb test, becoming the world’s fourth ther- monuclear power after the US, Soviet Union 5 and UK – but ahead of France. Dropped at 7am from a Hong-6 jet bomber over the Lop Nur Test Base in southeastern Xinjiang, the forfission-to-fusion the USSR it was – its 75 first months, atomic for test the toUK H-bomb was parachute-retarded for an air- 66first months hydrogen and bomb for France test – – was later 86 on months, – 105 burst at 2,960 meters and had an explosive months. power 150 times that of the atomic bomb While China had received extensive used by the US on Hiroshima at the end of technical help from the Soviet Union to WWII. jump-start their nuclear program, by as China made fast progress in developing early as 1960 the rift between the the two nuclear weapons in the 1960s, committed communist superstates had become so great to breaking the superpowers’ monopoly on that the Soviet Union ceased all assistance nuclear technology and to ensure Chinese to China. security against Soviet and US threats. China’s total nuclear arsenal size today Over a 32-month period, the PRC tested is estimated to range anywhere between 240 nuclear weapons to as many as 3,000 war- heads, all hidden within an extensive tunnel … G. As in, forget 4G because 5G is com- 25,its first 1966) atomic and detonatedbomb (October the H-bomb. 16, 1964), By system referred to as the ‘Underground ing to a Chinese city near you! That's comparison,launched its firstthe time nuclear between missile the (October US’s Great Wall.’ right, super fast data speeds will soon

China's three major telecommunica- be at your fingertips. CITY SNAPSHOT capabilitiestions providers in some officially pilot rolled cities outlate plansin April.to test fifth generation (5G) network Just how fast is 5G? As Sina notes, data can be carried over 5G networks up to 10 times faster than 4G networks. can be downloaded within just a second, At those speeds, a high definition movie be transmitted in just 18.75 seconds. Additionally,while a 30-gigabyte wireless Blu-ray data delays film can will drop to just one millisecond. station (operated by China Unicom) is expectedThe country's to open in first Shandong commercial in the 5G second half of this year, while all pilot work is set to be completed by 2019.

PRDers, meet Rachel Weiss, an American expat killing it on Instagram under the handle @rachelmeetschina. This month’s featured image comes from her online collection of colorful travel photos and profiles Lotus Hill in Guangzhou’s Panyu District. Lotus Hill is perhaps most famous for its ancient quarry, which dates back to the Western Han Dynasty (221-207 BCE). For more stunning travel shots from around China and Asia at large, follow Rachel on Instagram.

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PEN TO PAPER The Winners of the That’s PRD Writing Contest Spring 2018

n early April, we called upon our readers to submit their best written work in our second-ever That’s PRD Writing Contest. Much like our inaugural literary competition back in 2016, we re- Iceived a huge number of submissions from folks across the Pearl River Delta, with genres ranging - encefrom –travel and awriting panel of and judges nonfiction made upstories of three to poetry prominent and fun, PRD-based fictional journalistsadventures. – at Atlas Coffee in ZhujiangOn May New 19, Town. we invited The event 15 finalists was a huge to join success us in Guangzhou and at its conclusion, and share threetheir workwriters with were a live honored audi for their works and brilliant presentations. But before we share our judge’s top three picks, we want to sincerely thank everyone who participated in this year’s event: without your creative minds, this contest and subsequent reading event would not have been possible. Unfortunately, we don’t have enough space in the following pages to publish all the great stories we received, but keep an eye on thatsmags.com for additional written works selected by our editorial team!

10 | GZ | JUNE 2018 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM FEATURE | CITY ORCHIDS Thomas Thorogood First Place Winner and Audience Choice Winner Guangzhou

And I wonder if she is bones yet she stood in if the dress she was buried in a neighbour’s doorway hangs loose now asking if it’s normal to go numb nothing left of the vessel that held her voice her family; through a payphone mum, dad, in Andorra and my breath brother abroad, was frozen two dogs named after English castles to eulogise her absurd just months to prepare. rationalising someone so bursting with life They call it that survivor’s guilt but seems more a cruel joke that she in memoriam, every story ends and, as entwined with her wretched as I am, I continue.

hasRare finished. orchids grow A grave in Ivybridge on the warren with nothing in it they’re fenced away but bones and rags the sun sets on the estuary and and so and so this woman in I do continue the dunes. and, older now than I’d never been she will ever be, stunned by love like that to see her truth is held in beauty imbued fallible thoughts

and now I want to her boots on the moor tear the orchids up her script in the book from the root and grind them between the tors each other and soaked in of the moor eachthe first other’s time bodies we undressed

I want this whole I ached with love Jurassic coast to fall into the sea an ache she set into my bones since maybe it was it is in my marrow me that killed her I feel her in the cold.

maybe my panicked chemical spite spread like poison and grew in her brain

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Naomi Lounsbury Second Place Winner MEAT BUNS Guangzhou iaoli wanted meat buns. They were her weak- but a moment to mourn and then she picked it up and ness. She had been a fat child, so she'd learned started chasing the thief. Xto like chicken feet and Chinese cabbage and "Hey, motherf*cker!" Xiaoli was never rude but sweet potato leaves and to drink plain green tea and sometimes the situation called for it. She chased him do all these things that traditional Chinese culture de- around the corner, onto Xiadu Lu, holding the meat mands. When she went home to her family, they com- bun. He was fast but she was angry and not because of mented on how thin and pretty she was, but secretly, the phone. she would sell her own soul for the chance to eat as She watched as he weaved through people ahead, many of the spicy beef meat buns as she could without so she jumped off the sidewalk and ran next to the gaining weight. cars. A little more dangerous, but she didn't care. Five meters. Four. Why didn't he turn down a side Lujiang Metro Station and knew that 50 meters from road? He looked back and his eyes widened when he her wasShe workeda meat bun in a shop.real estate office across from the realized how close she was. She grabbed the collar At quarter to noon, she messaged her boss who of his shirt with her free hand and he tumbled to the worked in the desk next to her, going to grab a bun ground. She let go before he took her with him. from the shop across the way. “How dare you?” she hissed as she started kicking He nodded, not looking up from his phone. Her him, out of breath and sweaty. She still had the meat boss didn't care. There weren't any clients today. bun in her hand. “You want to steal my phone and She wandered across the street to stand in line at make me drop my f*cking meat bun?” She putted him the meat bun shop. The shop always had a special on, one more time for good measure, grabbed her phone four buns for RMB6, but she never bought four. and turned around. "One beef bun." She played on her phone as she ordered. She paid with WeChat and grabbed the bun. She pulled the plastic bag down and took a bite while He stayed down. juggling her phone in her hand. She closed her eyes for a second, enjoying the about the thieving teenager who made her drop her meatShe bun. walked back to the office, still a little angry phone. Her eyes snapped open as a boy, no more than 15flavor, and then in a schoolintuition uniform, kicked grabbedin as she her felt phonea tug at and her boss was still staring at his phone. started running. The quick action dislodged the meat "You'reShe walked back through quick," hethe said door without of the office looking and up. her bun from her hands and it fell to the ground. She had “Yeah, I'm going to go nap.”

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Franklin Foster Third Place Winner OF MAN Guangzhou

I got a boulder on my mind And I can’t take the shit I step outside looking for a shady place to sit Sit in the grass with some grass, try to break it in The world should be cool… Since there’s so much shadiness I notice more snakes every time I take a hit The world is full of them… Hard to find someone that ain’t been bit Only a few blades of grass can really break cement And that could change your life Depending how you take it in Because, Malcolm X was one That grew and left streets with dents So I’d be happy to walk through The pastures he went But when I begin, I’m taken by the wind Something I can’t see moving Whenever it makes the trees bend Watching ants crawl Wishing my family could live like that Fall in perfect line with each other And just chill like that Build a colony of our own… Wish we could live like that It’s crazy how a bunch of bugs Can make me feel like that… damn But on some real life shit I need green to live On some chlorophyll type shit That’s why I really need a deal right quick So instead of looking for jobs I still write hits… Smell of manure make me feel like shit They say you reap what you sow What can I give my kids? Shit… As of now A lot of pain, a lot of brains Not a lot of change But I promise I’m not ashamed I just need my plants properly arranged And in order for it to grow It’ll need a lot of rain Shit, if I can survive the hurricane And my life is dirt now That means I got a lot to gain

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t is getting better for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in China. Slowly. I For every stumble (like censorship on Weibo) there’s a step in the right direction (like the public support that reversed the decision). SZUMMER But free expression online can’t replace real-life community, where people can pierce the isolation to feel connected and whole. That’s where groups like SZUMMER PRIDE (SZP) come in. Now in its third year, the Shenzhen-based LGBT celebration enjoys the proud support of That’s PRD and businesses across the city. PRIDE “Pride is a time for people from all walks of life to come together and celebrate what makes us different,” Alex McCutcheon, one of the organizers, tells us. “We Celebrating LGBT Lives in the PRD create spaces where you can be yourself, no matter who you are or who you love.” The organizers take inspiration from celebra- tions like Guangzhou’s PRiDe, with which they share resources and recruit guests for events like the Wet & Wild parties taking over a Xichong beach resort during Dragon Boat weekend. It was a visit to PRiDe that inspired McCutcheon and Alessandro Nicolau to launch SZP with a pool party for 80 in the summer of 2016. Despite a few hiccups – “issues like the original venue suddenly becoming unavailable, torrential rains during site setup and even performers

recalls – it’s grown to a month of festivities.getting stuck in traffic,” McCutcheon Besides the two-day beach party with fashion shows, gifts, international DJs and gogo boys, there are parties on June 22 and 23 for those who want to burn up the

But there are now quieter eventsdance floor. too, like an art exhibit and a day for families. Details for each event, including exact location, will be made known as the dates approach. “In 2017 we started to experiment with creating spaces where the LGBT community can interact mean- ingfully with other residents of our city,” McCutcheon explains, “and reactions ranged from indifference to "Pride is a time for people from all walks of curiosity to outspoken support for the happiness and life to come together and celebrate what dignity of LGBT people. Of course there have been for various reasons, but there are many more who have makes us different." beencertain proud businesses to stand who by usfound and itsup difficult- to support us port us as we grow.” Help the PRD’s LGBT community grow: scan the QR to learn more and join in this year’s fun.

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URBAN DICTIONARY

Do you still believe the Western liberal propaganda of “life is a blank canvas”? Snap out of it. Life is a relay race on a single track of wealth and status, with the baton being passed from one generation to the next. What to you strive towards in life? The pursuit of happiness? Looking good in front of family and friends and at high school reunions? Bad idea! The real purpose of life is to take the baton from your father and run as fast as you can with the single purpose of delivering it to your offspring at a slightly more advantaged point. If your father had fallen behind, you work hard so your son can have a chance at the race. If your father was already in the front, you live to expand his advantage. We live in a world where any success can be traced to the endeavors of past generations, making social status and wealth a multi-generational project. There wouldn't be Donald Trump without Fred, for example. There wouldn’t be Ivanka without Donald. Many generations later, the starting points for every one of us are so far apart that our lives are, to a large degree, determined by where we got the baton—whether we were born in big cities or the countryside, Pin die/ pīn diē / 拼爹 verb. To compete for more social status and whether we go to a public or private school, or whether we can inherit a wealth using one's father's social status and wealth multi-million dollar corporation right out of college. Literally meaning “to compete using father,” pin die is the exercise of Look at Little Zhang. He is the CEO of a big using one’s father’s achievements to compete with others for upward mo- company at the age of 26. bility. It happens when people ask you what your father does when you attend elementary school, when you apply for universities, and when you apply for job openings. Sometimes it feels like who your father is matters Look up who his father is and more than who you are, because by now the status gap of the last genera- you’ll understand. tion has already exceeded what one can make up for in a lifetime. Don’t have a rich and famous dad? Be that dad to your son! Failing that, you can blame all your failures on your father. Great news all around. Oh, wow, he is winning the game of pin die. Mia Li

Daytripper Shaoguan's Danxia Mountains, p19

Inside Out A Breif, Hairy History of China P20 P24

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YANG FANG Designer and Founder, by FANG Interview by Dominic Ngai

After studying in France, fashion designer Yang Fang returned to her home country to establish her own label, by FANG, in 2013. Since then, Yang’s deep appreciation for traditional craftsmanship has become her signature style, and handcrafted origami elements and feminine lines are commonly featured in her couture and ready-to-wear collections. We caught up with her to see how the experience of becoming a mother has inspired her latest work. “Uniqueness and elegance are achieved with

How would you describe your style of fine details” design? the many holidays spent in our family house. Artistic and minimalistic. Less is often more My mom and I would spend hours playing bridge between the two, which is something when it comes to design. Being able to simul- and talking outside, and there were these gi- weand like commercial to describe constraints. to as ‘couture I enjoy à porter.’ finding a taneously develop a couture line (Atelier by The ideal situation is to have both lines com- FANG) and a ready-to-wear line (by FANG) plement each other by sharing a common puts an emphasis on delicate craftsmanship What’sant butterflies the experience around us of all working the time. on the design ethic and brand DNA. that requires great attention to details, and Asia Swarovski Collective like? uniqueness and elegance are achieved with Are you working on anything new at the FW18 was our sixth consecutive season moment and what are your plans for the collaborating with Swarovski. I really enjoy rest of 2018? Tellthese us fine about details. the SS18 collection, and how this partnership because it offers unlimited has your newborn baby inspired the de- creative freedom, and there are so many We just released the second season of our sign. intriguing elements to play with. There is collaboration with [lingerie label] Sangluo. also a perfect connection between Swarovski Most of our focus now is on the Atelier by It is a very special and personal collection. I crystals and our style of design and respect FANG Couture ‘Maison,’ which we just opened worked on it shortly after giving birth to my for craftsmanship. in January in the former French Concession. there are very strong emotions involved in Between your couture and ready-to-wear some decoration details, but the space is thisfirst momentbaby girl, in Maeli. my life, As and a woman this collection and a mom, is collections, what elements of the design prettyWe are amazing. still in soft We opening also have and more fine-tuning big process do you enjoy most? projects in the pipeline near the end of this Youstrongly also influenced mentioned by that this thespecial new energy. collec - Couture and ready-to-wear are very differ- Shanghai. tion reminds you of your bond with your ent animals, but I feel very lucky to be able year, including a by FANG flagship store in mother. Is there an example that best il- to work on both. Where design is concerned, See more of Yang Fang’s work on www.by-fang. lustrates this? couture is a more intimate process with a lot com of freedom and time to create, while ready-to- wear is a faster process with more functional for this collection brings back memories of The floral, garden-inspired pattern designed

WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | JUNE 2018 | GZ | 17 STYLE RADAR TAP THAT APP OVERHEARD Rakuten Global Market So you’ve heard of Alibaba, Amazon and eBay, but have you heard of Rakuten? According to Technode, this little- known Japanese e-commerce giant has “We sincerely become wildly popular in the Middle Kingdom, with Chinese customers spend- apologize for this ing JPY1 billion in 2016 alone on merchan- dise from the online supermarket. unintentional Thanks to partnerships with host su- permarkets JD.com and Netease, Rakuten error, and are conducting an marketplace,has finally managed after having to penetrate pulled theirinto storeChina’s from notoriously Baidu in difficult2012. e-commerce internal review” What makes this application so ap- pealing for English-speakers is the bright, clean and accessible interface, all laid out in easy to understand English. Taobao translation website Baopals is certainly a godsend, but it ain’t got nothing on Rakuten Global Market. Japan has rightly become renowned Chinese netizen who was shopping at a Gap outlet in Canada shared a photo of a T-shirt featur- as a center for streetwear and clothing ing… so an says incomplete Gap in an map official of China apology that posted neglected on Weibo. to include Its infamous Taiwan and map islands snafu instarted the South when China a culture in recent years and mainstay fashion brands such as Supreme, A Bathing apologizing for the mistake, adding that they’ve pulled the T-shirt in question from the Chinese Ape and many more are widely available market,Sea. To defuse and that the the situation, company the fully American respects fashion China’s label territorial quickly integrity. issued an official statement throughout the Rakuten App. The wealth of clothing options stored throughout the Rakuten online super- HOT ON TAOBAO market will certainly appeal to many, but

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DAYTRIPPER Shaoguan’s Danxia Mountains

“It is most beautiful because it is Decline the sketchier touts but be sure to stop off at the famed natural.” The inscrutable state- do take advantage of the favora- Yinyuan Stone, a natural rock ment appears on signs through- ble pricing on more plausible of- formation that bears a striking out the Danxia Mountains in a fers as long as you have no need resemblance to an enormous hu- declaration that’s hard to argue of tax receipts. Full-price tickets man vulva. with. The stunning splendor of sell for RMB150 at the ticket Cross a narrow valley on foot this red-tinged hikers’ paradise or by complimentary bus ride to- is so unique in Guangdong that both of the geopark’s main sce- wards the neighboring Yangyuan it constitutes the sole UNESCO nicoffice areas. and grant you passage to Stone Scenic Area. The elegant Natural Heritage Site in the The Danxia Mountains take Jin River, which can be toured southern province. their name from the Chinese by boat, winds its way between Situated in the northern word for ‘rosy clouds.’ It’s a ref- the two and a tightly clustered Guangdong city of Shaoguan, erence to the spectacular sunset village bristles with simple res- this beguiling range of karst-like and sunrise views from atop the taurants serving delicious home- mountains boasts steep cliffs, mountains’ dramatic peaks, as style Hakka fare. lush trails and fresh, clean air. well as the reddish stone that The Yangyuan Stone Though popular with visitors makes up their cliffs and ridges. Mountain is less lofty, but the How to get there: year-round, its massive size and Of the park’s two main scenic climbing here is considerably Guangzhou: Take a numerous trails mean it’s rarely areas, Zhanglao Mountain is the more strenuous. A narrow path one-hour fast train overwhelmed by crowds. more popular and approach- of steps is carved crudely from (RMB105) at Guangzhou Upon arriving at the gate of able peak, boasting a ‘Sunrise a truly steep cliff face, through South Railway Station the scenic area, you’ll likely be Pavilion’ which is perfect for rocky passages scarcely wider to Shaoguan Railway approached by scalpers offer- camping and, on a clear day, of- than two adult hikers standing Station. From there, take ing discounted tickets for entry. fers splendid views of the rose- abreast. a shuttle bus (RMB21) pink dawn. Even in thick mist The main draw here is the to Danxiashan (Mount and heavy clouds, chirping birds Yangyuan Stone, a soaring col- Danxia). and the mystical silhouette of umn of phallic rock bearing an the far-off ridges make for a con- indisputable likeness to an erect Shenzhen: Take a fast templative vista. penis. Ximei Fortress crowns the train at Futian Station En route to the peak, hikers peak: a crumbling Ming Dynasty (RMB186) or Shenzhen pass through a Buddhist temple, redoubt built by a despotic feu- North Railway Station calligraphic inscriptions etched dal tyrant from a nearby village (RMB179) to Shaoguan into massive, multicolored cliffs that serves as an ideal place to Railway Station in less and can detour to visit a historic admire a rosy sunset and enjoy a than two hours. Taoist shrine. On your descent, well-earned rest. TZ

WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | JUNE 2018 | GZ | 19 LIFE & STYLE | ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN INSIDE OUT Gutting and Redesigning an Old Fishing Village House Words by Dominic Ngai, Photos by Hou Bowen

Project name: Jiangshan Fishing Village Renovation Location: Gaochun District, Nanjing Area: 385 square meters Design company: Mix Architecture The brief: As residents continue to migrate to urban areas around China, Nanjing’s Gaochun district enlisted Mix Architecture to conduct renovations for some of the aban- - doned houses and decaying public facilities in an aging fish aing spacious community. library In andthe firstprivate phase residence of the project, with modernized the design interiors.firm converted a 385-square-meter old village house into

Designers at Mix Architecture made extensive changes to the house’s original layout with

the goal of turning it into one large open space. In the middle of the room, guests will find floor-to-ceiling wooden bookcases flanked by columns leftover from its former life.

Looking into the tea pavilion from the courtyard, one can see the designers’ painstaking efforts in creating a harmonious contrast between the minimalistic interiors and the rustic stone exterior.

From the bedroom of the residence wing, a view of the courtyard is nicely

framed by the floor-to-ceiling window.

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Despite the complete facelift made to the interiors, one of the designers’ main goals for this project was to retain the exteri- or of the original structure to honor the village’s heritage.

Wrapped inside the bookcases is a ‘meditation area’ equipped with a set of skylights to introduce natural light into the space.

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CELEBRATING THE LAUNCH OF THMART Get Started with These Awesome Deals

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Emsa FLOW Slim Friends Carafe Triceratops Puzzle Dig Kit, RMB168 with Cooling Station, RMB158 This triceratops-themed dig kit includes a Summer means you'll need many cold genuine mosasaur tooth, a polished Midea Tower Fan, RMB329 drinks to combat the heat. Luckily the guys dinosaur bone and some fossilized faeces This high quality fan will be a perfect for over at Emsa have just what you need. The as well as digging tools. The fossils you will the hot and humid days ahead. With an FLOW carafes come with an integrated discover are real and millions of years old, elegant appearance combined with cooling element in their stands to keep and come with a full-color information cutting edge design, including a your drinks refreshingly cool. All you need guide. There’s also a 3D triceratops 60-degree flexible wind to do is keep the cooling dinosaur puzzle to assemble delivery system and a 7.5 element in the freezer and use and a diorama to display your hours timing on/off function, it in the base of the carafe when findings. Perfect for any aspiring this fan will fit perfectly into needed. palaeontologist! any home.

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By Bailey Hu. Images courtesy of Shanghai Library Archives.

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A 'modern woman.' From China (Shanghai), Issue 8, 1932.

Taken by James Ricalton in Beijing, 1900

“Most common outfit of new women during the May Fourth movement.” From Time, Vol. 6, Issue 4, 1934.

The fashion-forward, worldly ‘modern Trendy Shanghai women. From Linglong, Vol. 2 Issue 54, 1932. cuts, sometimes paired with one of the new “I love short hair. But when I had it, people New Women and Modern Girls girl’ of the early ’30s started flaunting short thought I was a lesbian,” a Chinese acquaint- According to scholar Hung-Yok Ip, less than ever before, according to scholar Antonia ance once told me. She gestured at her a decade after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in Finnane.cheongsams It was that liberation were more of anotherform-fitting kind, than straight, shoulder-length locks. 1911, young female progressives began cut- and it had its detractors. “It’s called ‘mama’s hairstyle,’ after ting their luscious locks, leaving behind the Cartoons made fun of ‘modern’ thigh- daughters who keep their hair long to please styling and ornaments of a now bygone era. high hemlines and the sexual openness they their mothers.” The so-called ‘new women’ accompanied seemed to represent. The ambiguity of the Ironic, considering that her mother came the look with plain, sober clothing, symbol- new look made its way into other popu- of age in an era when short hair was not izing a novel outlook: that females too could The only normal but sometimes even mandated: contribute to China’s transformation into a Goddess, actress Ruan Lingyu plays a single during the Cultural Revolution of the ’60s modern nation. motherlar media who’s too: bothin the powerful classic 1934 and powerless.film and ’70s, long styles and perms were among Although short-lived, the movement Her fashionable appearance – short perm and brought a kind of liberation – both physical colorful cheongsam – allows her to attract culture. and psychological – from staid traditions. As customers as a sex worker, but they also put the casualtiesBut short hairof the was fight trending against well capitalist before a young Mao Zedong put it in 1919, accord- her at risk of mockery and exploitation. then. As far back as Republican China (1912- ing to Hung-Yok Ip, “If a woman’s head and a Despite the drawbacks, the popular- 1949), women have been chopping off their man’s head are actually the same… why must ity of modern fashions persisted, as some manes in the name of social, political and women have their hair piled up in those os- Western observers noted. As late as 1941, a sexual liberation. tentatious and awkward buns?” photograph from the International Mission In a sense, adoption of short styles has Not long afterward, short hair for women Photography Archive of the Yale Divinity gained even more traction, but for very dif- Library was accompanied by this caption: worth of struggle and change for Chinese ferent reasons: bobs and glamorous fashions “A year or so ago when 'shingled' hair was women.both reflected Take a and trip crystallized down history a century’s lane with us from a world away were winning over young the fashion all Chinese girls had short hair as we explore this hairy issue in depth. women in China’s big cities. although it did not really suit their particular

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A still from the The Goddess (1934)

Ruan Lingyu. From China Female Movie Star Photo Album, Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1934

A “modern” femme fatale. From Wanhuatong, Issue 5, 1946. style of features.” of Yan’an, the survivalist-chic look persisted. The writer notes with relief that long hair A ’30s photo shows a young Mao with his is once again in vogue, and that “In these days fourth wife Jiang Qing, both in military-style [Chinese women’s] style of hair dressing is as garb and haircuts of similar length. Although varied as in any other country.” her uniform shirt is cinched at the waist, it’s still a far cry from the former actress’ careful- Liberation Chic ly-styled appearance on the cover of a movie Jiang Qing on the cover of Lianhua Huabao in the 1930s Just over two decades later, though, long magazine earlier that decade. locks were taboo. A decade into Communist rule, as Antonia By the ’50s, according to China Daily, Finnane explains it, even Song Ching-ling – 1949, close to 71 percent of women had extra-short ‘liberation’ bobs had begun mak- Sun Yat-sen’s widow and Vice Chairperson no employment. Of those married between ing waves among women of the new People’s of the Standing Committee of the People's 1950-65, however, 70.6 percent worked, and Republic of China. But the foundation for the Congress – had turned in her habitual plain over 90 percent of women wedded in the fol- fashion was set even before the Communists’ qipao for shirts and pants, a sign of the lowing decade also found jobs. 1949 takeover. changing times. In the early ’30s, as Hung-Yok Ip cites, a But unlike with the ‘new women’ of dec- Cutoff Point soldier told new female recruit Lu Guixiu: ades before, Communist women’s androgy- It’s a testament to the power of the perm that “Bobbed hair is convenient and sanitary. It is only major social upheaval could cut off its easy to take care of when you are wounded.” political progress: the landmark Marriage popularity. Despite reservations, she and other peasant Lawnous of style 1950 was required accompanied both parties’ by significant consent, But the doom of heat-induced curls – and soldiers adopted the new look for its prac- cracking down on issues such as arranged too-long hair, and excessive accessories – ticality. eventually arrived with a vengeance during The less-is-more mentality also pervaded also raised the marriage age for females and the Cultural Revolution. the Long March, which reduced Communist unions, bigamy and human trafficking. It Before 1966, permed waves and hair forces to a fraction of their original size. a woman’s right to divorce. ribbons weren’t uncommon, Ip states, even According to Ip, the book The Heroines in the malesWomen to 18 andfound 20, their respectively, way into andthe workingaffirmed among progressive women. Afterwards, Long March recounts that in the urgency of world as well, John Bauer and other research- however, even medium-length hair risked ers discovered, although they often had to to ‘tidy’ their hair every morning,” having balance jobs with household chores. In their scissors-wielding Red Guards. “neithertheir flight comb female nor soldiersmirror.” “used their fingers article on gender issues in China, they cite criticismAt the and beginning rectification of his at brief the essayhands of Even after the army made it to the refuge surveys in Nanjing that show that before ‘Cultural Revolution and Hair,’ scholar Gu

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Taken by Lee Weekly, 2015

From a 1972 production of Red Detachment of Women, attended by US President Richard Nixon

Guangzhou, it’s not hard to spot women with shorter cuts among a throng of curls, waves, iron-straightened locks and various dye jobs. Huang Bingjie (above, right) is one of them. A year ago, friends and family greeted her decision to chop it all off with surprise, although they’ve since gotten used to it. Nong brings up an anecdote by writer Yang to become a valuable member of an all- Huang likes it too, saying she’ll most Jiang in which she recalls having half her hair female company in the Red Army – a troop likely keep her ‘cool’ cut for another two or cut off in ‘yin yang’ style during a criticism. of uniform-clad women, all of whom sport three years before switching it up. Gu, a former Red Guard himself, recalls short hair. Wendy Zhao, 30, (above, left) is another an ‘unspoken rule’ of the period: ‘one braid close-crop adoptee, although she’s since is feudalist, two is capitalist, shoulder-length New Growth changed her mind and concealed her hair hair is revisionist and all must be swept Not long after China’s reform and opening under a wig during the awkward growing-out away.’ up in 1978, newly receptive Chinese women phase. By contrast, the pinnacle of revolu- began adopting hairstyles from around the “A lot of girls want to cut [their hair tionary beauty might be found in The Red short]… but they won’t do it if they think it Detachment of Women, one of the Eight queen’ Zhang Qiang, who favored a daring won’t suit them.” Model Operas (conceived by Jiang Qing, inci- afro,world. to Style Hong influences Kong actress ranged Maggie from Cheung’s ‘disco Zhao is both fascinated and repulsed by dentally) that dominated Chinese entertain- sideways ponytail. another bold style choice: shaving one’s head. ment for a decade. Short hair lost much of its cachet al- She says she won’t do it, then admits to be- The ballet-slash-opera, which features though the odd celebrity, such as pop star ing curious anyway: “I just don’t know what female dancers en pointe Li Yuchun, continues to champion close- being bald would feel like. It would be a new the story of peasant woman Wu Qinghua. cropped cuts. experience.” Wu escapes a tyrannous landlordwielding and rifles, learns tells Possibly even liberating.

Still, in first-tier cities like Shenzhen or

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Hot Chinese Records Three new homegrown albums on our radar this month, p34

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28 | GZ | JUNE 2018 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM DRUMROLL 29 - WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | JUNE 2018| GZ | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM Shanghai is all of this as well, but not in is all of this as well, Shanghai Listen to Dirty Fingers at downloads.maybemars. org/album/howd-i-turn-so-bad. WeChat ID: dirtyfingers What are some of your thoughts about about thoughts some of your What are especially Shanghai, in the music scene used to you Beijing, to where compared live? the industry is based – art Beijing is where labels, media, bands, artists, hype patrons, It’s po drama. and huge loads of makers and it can be very litical, it’s competitive toxic. music and art, because the industry is not good. People And I think this is very here. concerned with just having more are here us as a band, For good music and art around. just do to freedom us so much more it gives do. to want we what people should why sentence one us in Tell tour. world help support your help! and need your broke are We brutal get pyramidsand those mummies to dance” those to mummies - - “We are going to see those to going are “We - - - ing the tour. ing the tour. titude. We want to be open and learn from be open and learn from to want titude. We something to create and try to other cultures we It’s the way us, it’s just natural. For gether. see, touch to like We operate. automatically things. and experience music that new any on working you Are tour? in the be including might you not songs that are three have already we Yes, all the time at gigs: play but that we recorded, With our record and ‘Alleluia!’ ‘Mafia’ ‘Coke,’ process time to more have ing studio, we add new elements and so on. the recordings, local something with record to also want We dur Indonesia and Brazil bands in Cambodia, hard to connect with, but we are confident are connect with, but we to hard see those brutal pyra going to are that we dance. mids and get those mummies to as describe this tour you video, a promo In people outside of the to connect to a way you? to is that important internet. Why of this at is a result As a band, Dirty Fingers

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personal connections all over the world. world. the over personal connections all their drummer, a Brazilianexpat who goes by Ale Amazonia, about their quest to make crowdfunding campaign to raise money for their first worldWe hadtour. a chat with whirlwind DIY China tours, Shanghai band Dirty Fingers are putting on a China tour and releasing an album on respected Beijing label Maybe Mars, and completing two After shaking up Shanghai’s music scene with their brash and charismatic punk, of room for surprises! Egypt has been very surprises! Egypt has been very for of room will be very unprofitable and will give us a lot and will give unprofitable will be very part, and South Africa including Egypt, Brazil that different for us. But the cross-continent us. But the cross-continent for that different are also touring Japan and Korea, which is not which Japan and Korea, also touring are something unexpected and challenging. We and challenging. We something unexpected have a feeling of closure and discovery, to do to and discovery, of closure a feeling have For the first round of the tour, we wanted to to wanted we of the tour, the first round For make your song ‘Trip to Cairo’ a reality? Cairo’ to ‘Trip song your make the world tour? Are you going to Egypt to Egypt to to going you Are tour? the world you’re going to visit for the first leg of to going you’re How did you decide on the countries decide on the countries did you How and companies want to collaborate with us. collaborate to and companies want ourselves and deliver results, the more labels the more results, and deliver ourselves interesting thing is, the more we do things by we thing is, the more interesting pushes us to always seek out the next step. The step. seek out the next always pushes us to build meaningful relationships with the audi build meaningful relationships and bands. It also promoters ence, venues, ourselves. And DIY gives us a better chance to us a better And DIY gives ourselves. Because we know how to do these things by to how know Because we than via sponsorship from any record la record any from via sponsorship than companies? bels or corporate Why do you want to do a DIY tour rather rather do a DIY tour to want do you Why By Erica Martin Touring the World Touring Rockers on Staying on DIYRockers and Shanghai’s Rowdiest Punk Rowdiest Shanghai’s FINGERS DIRTY COLL AGE SINO CELEB COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU Zhou Dongyu Unlike many actors and actresses who might spend years searching for a breakthrough, Zhou Dongyu got lucky. At the age of 17, she was selected by the famed director Zhang Yimou to star in Under the Hawthorn Tree JUNE JUNE (2010) despite having no prior acting ex- 8 15 perience. She played Jingqiu, a high school girl sent to the countryside for reeduca- Black Water Jurassic World: Fallen tion during the Cultural Revolution, who subsequently falls in love with the son of a Jean-Claude Van Damme as an under- Kingdom military general. Zhou won several awards This action flick set on a submarine stars With all the nail-biting action and irreverent wit for the role and became a household name been imprisoned by the CIA and must of 2015’s Jurassic World, this second installment overnight. cover operative who wakes up to find he’s of the trilogy is set several years later, after the In her early twenties, Zhou had a series to the military term ‘black site,’ or the park on Isla Nublar has shut down and dinosaurs of roles that failed to impress Chinese neti- escape. The film’s name is a reference - roam there freely. When an impending volcanic zens. She remained low-key regarding public acknowledged by a nation’s government. eruption puts them in danger of going extinct all criticism, while quietly honing her skills at Vanlocation Damme’s of highly co-star classified is Swedish activities actor un over again, former park manager Claire Dearing Beijing Film Academy. and martial artist Dolph Lundren. To the (Bryce Dallas Howard) sets up a rescue mis- Zhou’s performance in Soul Mate (2016) delight of action movie enthusiasts, Black sion with her boyfriend, dinosaur trainer Owen however, a moving tale of tested friend- Water Grady (Chris Pratt). In an intriguing indication ship and redemption in the midst of a love Lundren have starred in the same movie, Fallen triangle, was a breakthrough. In portraying is the fifth time Van Damme and Kingdom debuts in domestic theaters here one the rebellious and freewheeling Ansheng, instead of antagonists. weekof China’s before growing its North box American office prominence, premiere date. Zhou broke out of her past cycle of depicting but the first time ever that they’ll be allies “the innocent sweetheart.” She took home HAO BU HAO role in Soul Mate. Critics and audiences alike praiseda total of Zhou’s five Best maturity Actress on-screen Awards for as hershe delivered more complex performances. Zhou has since blossomed on China’s Hao date. Her recent works, This Is Not What I Cathy Yan has made history by signing on as the first Expectedsilver screen, (2017) appearing and Us andin over Them 20 (2018),films to as-yet-untitled movie starring Harley Quinn as played by Asian woman to direct a superhero film. Yan will helm an - Margot Robbie in Suicide Squad. The China-born, NYC- tributed her success to landing the right op- based director and former Wall Street Journal reporter’s portunitieswere instant at box the office right time,hits. Zhou while has admitting at debut feature, Dead Pigs — a Jia Zhangke-produced that she needs to further diversify her role dramatization of the 2013 pig incident in Shanghai’s choices in order to reach new heights. Huangpu River — found acclaim earlier this year after being featured at Sundance. Kind of like: Lily Collins Famous for: portraying innocent and quirky sweethearts Bu Hao Users of the popular video streaming platform Douyin See her in: Soul Mate (2016) were surprised to discover early last month that over 30,000 videos relating to animated TV show Peppa Pig had been removed, while the hashtag #Peppapig had been blocked. The UK children’s TV show has proven wildly popular in China since it debuted on CCTV in 2015, and later became a viral sensation within certain online subcultures. Several media outlets misreported the event as a complete ban on the lovable cartoon character, but episodes of the animated show are still available on CCTV, Youku, iQiyi and Tencent. This also hasn’t affected plans for Peppa Pig theme parks, which are slated to open in Shanghai and Beijing in 2019.

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Our favorite tracks from artists playing in Guangzhou and Shenzhen this month. For full nightlife and gig listings, visit www.thatsmags.com

‘Stranger’ (2018) ‘The Missing Steps’ (2017) ‘Falla’ (2015) Leo Kalyan Sleep Party People Childs Featuring the London-based singer- Via dreamy soundscapes and ethe- Drawing on influence from Sigur Ros songwriter’s soulful vocals on top of real vocals, the Copenhagen-based and Mogwai, this post-rock track opens lush tunes, this seductive pop gem multi-instrumentalist creates a hyp- with soothing acoustic chords, then as- is about finding a deep connection notic experience that takes listeners cends to a euphoric climax with an up- with a stranger while traveling. to an otherworldly wonderland. lifting mix of violin, guitar and drums.

‘Surf With Shark’ (2012) ‘Motel’ (2016) ‘Breeze’ (2001) Hedgehog never young beach Sophie Zelmani The Chinese indie rock trio de- Lighthearted surf rock tunes with Featuring tender melodies and af- livers self-sarcastic humor and a retro spin, the Tokyo-based indie fectionate vocals by the Swedish folk youthful restlessness in this punk rock band brings upbeat summer singer-songwriter, ‘Breeze’ is a melan- rock song, which is guaranteed to beach vibes to listeners’ ears with cholic ballad about saying goodbye to awaken your inner riot. this fun track. a loved one.

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LET THE If you know too much, it can kill SUUNS SHINE the mystique

The Montreal Art Rock Band Stays Mysterious By Erica Martin

“Early on, our art was pretty stark, with black and white imagery,” says Suuns guitarist and bassist Joe Yarmush. “Classic French and Italian cinema mixed with 80s punk. Beautiful and dirty.” He’s discussing the gritty artwork style that characterized the Montreal art rock band’s early albums and music videos, but he could well be describing the music itself, too. Arriving in 2010 Zeroes QC, a sinister study in electronic music meshed with punk, Suuns dis- playedwith their a special first album, prowess for stark yet unhinged compositions. The band got their start when Yarmush met vocalist and guitarist Ben Shemie in Montreal in 2007, and the duo began writing songs. Their original name was Zeroes, but for copyright reasons they switched it to the Thai word for zero, Suuns (pronounced ‘soons’), keeping the original name alive in the debut album title. “I wanted to bring back some attitude and a punk approach that was missing in the music from Montreal at that time,” Yarmush says of the band’s origins. “There was lots of folk and rootsy not into making that. We wanted to be Suicide andmusic the happening. Stooges.” While that was fine, we were

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Those references are apparent on Zeroes QC, though woven through with dark elec- tronics and a cold industrial touch. Later efforts, especially their 2016 record Hold/ Still and its album of remixes, caused the band to be categorized as ‘psychedelic,’ but Yarmush says it’s not a label he thinks about well, though, when paired with much of their latermuch. visuals, The description especially seems for the to 2016 fit especially track ‘Brainwash,’ which Yarmush calls “the weird- est video and perhaps song we have.” The video in question depicts a glitchy animated beach populated by abandoned buildings as Shemie croons: “Do you really know how the other half lives?” The camera then descends into a yellow and black cyberpunk under- Felt has an expansive, melancholy feel- world as the industrial beat drops. ing. The single ‘Look No Further’ opens with The way Suuns discuss their own music church bells before launching into a warbling is much more stark than psychedelic or free- electronic beat, with a simple music video wheeling, however, and they shy away from depicting schoolchildren passing an after- elaborate explanations of their songwriting noon in a bleak industrial apartment com- process and themes. In 2016, drummer Liam plex, coloring on their hands and discussing O’Neill published an eloquent plea against how magic is “all a big lie.” Even so, the band packaging and over-explaining art for music sounds almost upbeat on a few songs, like the blog The Line of Best Fit. “Making music is feverish ‘Daydreams.’ largely a wandering process, and talking Despite his distaste for over-explaining, about it is typically not very interesting,” he Yarmush reveals that for Felt the band was writes. “It’s a process of endless repetition, “more concerned with getting the right feel- - ing on the record, and less concerned with ing ideas. What’s amazing about music, to me getting perfect performances. So, we really anyway,dead-ends, is how anchorless musicians exploration, arrive at placesconflict of took our time completing the record, to focus beauty and cultural relevance in spite of all on the songs themselves.” this drudgery.” Suuns are taking Felt on a China tour Yarmush agrees, pointing out that, “[the through Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen this article] was spurred by reading about musicians and how if you know too much, it can Since the band is known for putting on an kill the mystique and aura that adds to one’s especiallymonth – their engrossing first foray live onto show, the bewitching mainland. appeal.” - The band’s latest record, Felt, dropped tions, it’s apparent the music will speak for earlier this year, and is notable for a looser audiencesitself. with their unclassifiable composi black art rock. An album cover of a plaster Catch Suuns in Shenzhen: June 21, 8.30pm; handand more poking fluid a black take on balloon their breedon a sickly of pitch- green RMB147 presale, RBM167 door (RMB7 of each ticket background hints at the band’s pushing of supports Educating Girls of Rural China). B10 Live, Building C2, North Area, OCT-Loft, Xiangshan Dong their own boundaries while staying in-tune Jie, Nanshan District 南山区香山东街华侨城创意文化园 with their signature twisted sound. 北区C2栋北侧 (b10live.cn)

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By Erica Martin

Natural Disaster by Howie Lee The latest EP from powerhouse Beijing producer Howie Lee is contemplative and meander-

- mentationing. He tells and a story tone. of The destruction ethereal andtempo redemption picks up in in the his dizzyingliner notes track that ‘Be is Buried,’set “after and the then first ‘Firstnon-snowy Rain,’ whichwinter begins in Beijing,” with butwandering the EP has ambient a distinct sounds Middle like Easternearlier track influence ‘Mirage’ in its but instru then delivers the way its name promises thanks to the airy beauty of the vocals. The closing track, Natural Disaster might lack some of the visceral excitement of his previous release, Homeless, but it showcases Lee’s impressive‘Rebuild’ featuring commitment Jason toHou, pushing is hauntingly new boundaries unique and with unclassifiable. every release.

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Sky Singing by Zaliva-D The second concept album by longstanding Beijing audio-visual duo Zaliva-D, Sky Singing blends detached industrial beats with a quivering, organic feeling of paranoia. Li Chao’s garbled vocals weaving in and out add a mystic yet very earthly feel in un- nerving tracks like ‘Down Samasara,’ before rising to an anguished cry in ‘Prophecy.’ References to ‘ancient beings’ that ‘sing up to the sky’ in the album’s release info round out the overall commitment to evoking Lovecraftian dread. The organic/industrial dichotomy is on its most vibrant display in the title track, a hailstorm of chugging bass, beeps, gong sounds and throaty vocals. The duo is especially expert at pacing, slowing to a crawl and even stalling in complete silence mid-song before lurching on into the darkness.

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She Came Back from the Square by Hiperson The follow-up to Hiperson’s 2015 debut, No Need for Another History, sees the Chengdu band exploring new wavelengths, trading in their complex post-punk for a startlingly raw and stripped-back sound. Guitarist Ji Yi’nan, who also produced the album, whittled away any unnecessary trappings, embracing the potency of simple chords and allowing for frontwoman Chen Sijiang’s commanding vocal presence to shine bright. Chen, who writes all the band’s lyrics, took inspiration from everyday interactions like a chat with her Uber driver (‘He’s as Proud as My Teacher’), imbuing these quotidian moments with emotional resonance. The album’s vulnerable, powerful centerpiece ‘The History’ builds into neurotic crescendo thanks to a shrieking, track ‘Ceramics.’ The album pulls back in this way several times, but the closing track ‘Footballdistorted Game’ saxophone releases in its the final wild-eyed moments, energy which that gives builds way up to throughout. the lovely a cappella

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ARTS | BOOK

SHENZHEN ZEN Life, Love and Misadventure in the Middle Kingdom By Bailey Hu

where he works for China Daily he title – Shenzhen Zen: An before switching to a brand-new, Accidental Anthropologist’s unsullied Global Times. Decade of Life, Love, and T It’s small gems like these that Misadventure in the Middle keep Mitchell’s stories engaging Kingdom – really says it all. for a foreign audience already For those who haven’t read well-acquainted with China. the book, it also raises more Through his work at various questions than it answers. What news centers, the author also of- is an accidental anthropologist, fers an informed perspective on what’s the Shenzhen-Zen con- major cultural touchstones like nection and is this just another the 2008 Beijing Olympics, or the (s)expat memoir? devastating Sichuan earthquake Our answer to the last is: that preceded it. not quite. Because while veteran But while illuminating, journalist Justin Mitchell does Mitchell’s narrative has its limits. recount the odd gratuitous sex There’s nothing like a central scene, most of the Colorado na- thesis for the book, just different tive’s narrative is devoted to doc- colorful vignettes about living in umenting strange, serendipitous Asia – or as the author put it on or downright bizarre episodes one entry, “lots of little tales that from his life in Asia over the ’00s. make me glad I came.” The book is loosely struc- The words that follow af- tured as a diary, based on the terwards are revealing: “Where blog through which Mitchell from here, though, I dunno.” charted his decade abroad. It Although he obviously values starts off in a free-wheeling his experiences in Asia, it’s just Shenzhen packed with a wide- as apparent that Mitchell also ranging cast of characters, from harbors uncertainties. As time “shoe repair families” doing busi- passes, they begin to outweigh ness on the sidewalk to “wealthy, the joys of living abroad. young, very glossy Chinese men It’s telling that over a dec- and women sipping $6-$7 javas” ade-long stay, the author never in the city’s sole Starbucks. seems to pick up more than a Mitchell, a Shenzhen Daily bare minimum of Chinese, re- copy editor, revels in the new- ness of it all while also occasion- of place names throughout the ally overcoming the ‘stranger in a book.flected Even by various a foreign misspellings friend from strange land’ trope. Early on, for Hong Kong calls him out on his instance, a work-related English (lack of) Mandarin, quipping, salon devolves into an earnest “How long have you been here?” intercultural discussion at a bar, Eventually, factors outside ending with “a toast to better “A toast to better sexual relations and sex his control make Mitchell take sexual relations and sex educa- the great leap out of China, and tion – both in China and the USA” education – both in China and the USA” lead to other changes besides. We In between educational mo- won’t spoil it for you, except to ments, the author entertains say that the “accidental anthro- with humorous highlights from pologist” ends on a positive note, his work and personal life, like pose as an American “bamboo land, thanks largely to a long- neatly wrapping up a decade of the time a date dressed as a king.” term relationship with Shenzhen vividly detailed life abroad. “budding S&M starlet” visits Although Mitchell moves to resident ‘C.’ And, after a stint in his workplace on the day of the Hong Kong in 2004, he still main- Thailand, the author eventually Shenzhen Zen is available on Amazon. mayor’s visit, or when a rent- tains a connection to the main- a-foreigner gig required him to finds his way back – to Beijing,

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The Art and Science Behind Winning Over Digital-savvy Chinese Millennial Travelers By Dominic Ngai

COVER STORY 38 n a recent trip to Europe, a short layover at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport revealed telling signs of the Ogrowing influence that a new generation of digital-savvy Chinese travelers has on the future of global tourism. As I dashed towards the boarding gate of my connecting flight, I couldn’t help but notice something weirdly familiar about my surroundings. Many of the airport’s duty-free shops all had Chinese signage that proclaimed, “We accept Alipay!” or “Receive a 10 percent discount with UnionPay!”

It was as if I’d never left Pudong.

In 2017 alone, Chinese travelers made 130.5 million overseas trips and spent a total of USD115.3 billion during their travels. By 2020, the number of overseas Chinese travelers is expected to reach 200 million.

With this upward trend in mind, travel destinations, retailers and lifestyle brands around the world are now rethinking their strategies to win over the hearts and minds (and wallets) of this powerful target group.

COVER STORY 39 Many overseas retailers think that accepting UnionPay is good enough, which might have been true five years ago… I can’t over-exaggerate the importance of having mobile payment options available

Chinese tourists made 130.5 million overseas trips in 2017. By 2020, the number of overseas travelers will reach 200 million. SOURCE: CTRIP, CHINA TOURISM ACADEMY AND CLSA

COVER STORY 40 TB China 2018, a travel trade show which luxury lifestyle as an attainable reality, and attracted 700 exhibitors from 80 countries are much more open to the West,” explains I and 15,000 visitors to the 18,000-square- Chloe Reuter, CEO and founder of Reuter meter hall at the Shanghai World Expo and Communications. Exhibition Center, is a physical manifestation “There’s a been real shift from the ‘tour- of the global battle for a slice of the lucra- ists’ mindset to the ‘travelers.’ They are going tive pie that is the Chinese outbound tourism overseas to look for an experience, are much market. more sophisticated in their tastes, and often Here, some of the most popular booths prefer to travel independently.” belong to the likes of Meituan Travel, Tencent Just like when they’re at home, smart- and Ctrip. These ecommerce giants are flex- phones are a crucial part of any activ- ing their technological muscles, and show- ity they partake in. According to Nielsen’s casing their product offerings, data analysis 2017 Outbound Chinese Tourism and abilities, and a deep understanding of the Consumption Trends report, 97 percent of local market to the world. Needless to say, travelers from the Middle Kingdom have travel and mobile technology are now virtu- a data package handy for navigation pur- ally inseparable, and this notion rings true for poses and to communicate with friends back Chinese millennial travelers in particular. home. On her most recent trip to Northern “Travel companies who invest in artificial Europe, for instance, Chen used her WeChat intelligence are investing in the future,” ITB Moments as a travelogue of sorts to keep her China’s General Manager David Axiotis tells friends updated on her itinerary and the beau- me. “We’re actually already experiencing tiful sceneries of the region. AI in one way or another during our travels. “They are always looking for selfie-worthy When you’re checking into a hotel or a flight photo opportunities to share on their WeChat with a mobile device, [your interactions with] Moments and other social media platforms,” chatbots enable hoteliers and airlines to learn Reuter adds. “Providing plenty of visually a lot about their customers.” compelling activities is an important factor Just how exactly can one tickle the fancy that destinations should consider when target- of a ‘mobile-first’ generation that has aban- ing the Chinese market.” doned cash in favor of Alipay and WeChat Both her and James Hebbert, Managing Pay, communicates with friends constantly – Director of Hylink Digital Solutions in the UK, and almost exclusively – via social media, and stress the importance of starting a dialogue arranges their travel bookings directly on the with the Chinese audience before they even screens of their smartphones? In addition to set off on their journeys. The most effective being digital natives, experts all agree that it’s way to raise awareness is through the use of important to first acknowledge the difference KOLs and influencers who this target market in mentality between Chinese millennials and follows on various social media platforms. their parents’ generation. “A recent study shows that young Chinese “I normally travel twice a year, usually a consumers are more likely to trust a KOL over short trip to somewhere close to Shanghai, official branded websites,” says Hebbert from plus a long-distance trip,” Chen Jinglin, a his London office. “When they travel, Chinese Shanghai-born 20-something who works at a millennials often do a lot of homework and multimedia company, tells me at a café. Over research before their trip starts. They know the past couple of years, the avid traveler has exactly what they want to buy and are very already covered many parts of Europe. In ad- good at seeking out the best deal and value dition to that, she also frequently attends her for money.” favorite band’s concerts in various parts of Meanwhile, WeChat’s new CityExperience Asia. Just like many in her generation, Chen mini-programs, which are essentially destina- sees traveling as one of her favorite hobbies, tion guides that have included places like and she has the means to go often. London, Dubai and Sydney so far, also cater “Chinese millennials grew up under a to the Chinese millennials’ preference for re- relatively stable political climate with massive ceiving their news and entertainment content economic growth. They’re the first genera- directly from their smartphones. tion to have the ability to enjoy a modern

COVER STORY 41 Even when armed with these power- Chinese travelers to spend money, serving the ful tools, navigating through the complex 200 million travelers who’ll be coming their Chinese digital ecosystem isn’t an easy feat. way by 2020 will be an overwhelming task. In a rapidly changing environment like China, Back at the ITB China, the fact that Ctrip what’s considered new and innovative now processes 50TB of data generated by its might no longer be enough a few months 300 million users on a daily basis was refer- down the road. enced multiple times during various keynote “Chinese travelers’ [reliance on mobile speeches and discussion panels. China’s larg- payment] is the one thing that sets them apart est online travel agency isn’t just setting the from the rest of the world,” says ITB China’s benchmark for its domestic competitors, but David Axiotis. He stresses the importance international players are also keeping a close for overseas retailers, hotels and other travel eye on its development. service providers to adapt and cater to their According to Ctrip’s Chief Data Officer preference for digital wallets, not the other Wilson Pang, the work of the 3,000 staff way around. members in the Data and Research depart- Key findings from Nielsen’s 2017 report ment is one of the key factors to the com- echoes his recommendations. Last year, 65 pany’s success. “The data that we collect percent of Chinese travelers have used Alipay when users browse through our website or or WeChat Pay during their overseas trips, app is extremely useful to determine not only compared to just 11 percent of non-Chinese. our user demographics, but also the changes Though bankcards are still most commonly in demand for different destinations, how used when they’re traveling (used by 42 per- much people are willing to spend, and more,” cent of Chinese respondents), the number explains Pang. “Meanwhile, the actual book- of mobile payment transactions is quickly ing data allow us to provide timely tips during catching up to cash. Meanwhile, more than their travels.” 90 percent of Chinese travelers say they’re During the Labor Day holiday, for in- likely to consider paying with their phones stance, based on the spike in hotel occu- when given the option, and that it might even pancy rate in cities like Guiyang, Yangshuo, increase their desire to spend more. Fenghuang, Dali and Lijiang, Ctrip was able “Many overseas retailers think that ac- to make recommendations to their hotel part- cepting UnionPay is good enough, which ners and tourist attractions around these are- might have been true five years ago,” Reuter as to ensure these places are properly staffed adds. “When I meet industry people overseas, to handle the influx of guests. Meanwhile, I can’t over-exaggerate the importance of travelers were also offered advice before and having mobile payment options available.” during their trip on how to avoid peak periods Just before Chinese New Year, London’s around these destinations. luxury department store Harrods made And with the growing number of inde- headlines when it began to accept WeChat pendent travelers in China, Pang says that Pay across its 400 plus terminals in the catering to the diverse needs of this crowd is Knightsbridge flagship location and its airport all about providing variety and the conveni- outlets. That same month, it had also added ence of having everything all in one digital the Alipay Instant VAT refund function, allow- ecosystem, from booking and recommenda- ing Chinese shoppers to have their tax refunds tions, to payment and sharing memories of deposited directly into their mobile payment their travels – something that young people account. like Chen Jinglin cares deeply about when While Hebbert sees this as a great ex- deciding where to travel. ample that others can use as a reference, he Back in the café, she is rattling off the believes there are still many opportunities for names of places that she’d love to visit in the destinations and brands in the West to cater near future. Buenos Aires and several Eastern to Chinese travelers, and to facilitate a more European capitals are high up on her list. seamless journey from creating awareness on- “When I choose a travel destination, I line among Chinese travelers, bringing them usually think about how interesting and fun it into the stores to experience the brand while is, and price isn’t my primary concern,” she they’re visiting, converting the experience into explains. “Although I don’t follow travel KOLs a sale, and developing a long-term relation- closely, I do take their recommendations ship with them. as a reference, especially the ones that are At present, only less than 10 percent of featured on apps like Ctrip, where I make my Chinese nationals have a passport, but the travel bookings.” number is bound to increase over the next few She concludes, “I don’t have many holi- years. If overseas merchants don’t have a tai- days, so at the end of the day, it’s all about lored communication strategy and the neces- whether the destination is worthwhile for me sary infrastructure set up to make it easier for to invest my time.”

COVER STORY 42 65% of Chinese tourists used mobile payment during overseas travel in 2017, compared to 11% of their non-Chinese counterparts.

SOURCE: NIELSEN

91% of Chinese tourists say the availability of mobile payment might increase their desire to spend and shop.

COVER STORY 43 TOP TOURS Preplanned Trips For Adventurous Souls By That’s PRD

Looking to get away this summer but not so much into the planning required to execute a bucket list-worthy trip? We’ve rounded up four superb tours organized by the jet-setting folks over at Travelers Society for your consideration.

Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan

The Turkic states of Central Asia are fa- ditional yurts of nomadic herders, revel mous for their legendary hospitality and in the bevy of ancient relics that dot the offer boundless opportunities for adven- mountainous landscape, feast your eyes ture and discovery. Incredibly remote but on unparalleled specimens of Islamic also compact and navigable, Uzbekistan architecture and your belly on delicious and Kyrgyzstan in particular boast stag- Central Asian treats. geringly beautiful natural landscapes, a fascinating and vibrant Silk Road history, Dates: July 5-16 the gritty charm of a post-Soviet legacy Cost: RMB10,999 and proud, irresistible culinary traditions, Scan the QR code to all against a rich and varied backdrop of learn more and book extraordinary ethnic diversity. This 12-day your spot on this excit- midsummer tourist package presents a ing trip well-curated ramble through the region at its finest. Enjoy horse trekking though the Kyrgyz Alps, stay overnight in the tra-

COVER STORY 44 Abandoned Fishing Villages on Zhejiang’s Gouqi Island For all the heavy impact that the weight of human civilization leaves on the planet, Rafting and Zip-lining it’s amazing to contemplate how quickly nature can manage to reclaim the earth when given the opportunity. The mystical near Shanghai quietude of Gouqi Island, an abandoned and overgrown former fishing community Weekend adventurers will love this cooking – all with the worldly com- just off the shores of Shanghai’s seething high-energy, fast-paced traipse forts of hotel living close at hand. metropolis, is a case study in what transpires through the verdant hills of the East This affordable and restorative when humans simply vanish. This Dragon China countryside. A short drive getaway is the perfect short-term Boat Festival, take a boat ride back in time from Shanghai, a wonderland of jaunt to catch some well-deserved and discover the otherworldly silence of this outdoor fun awaits adrenaline- midsummer jollies. forsaken settlement. In three short days, visi- seeking travelers and nature-loving tors can picnic upon the bobbing waves of city-dwellers alike. Enjoy a picnic Dates: June 29 – July 1 the island’s picturesque harbor, gorge on by a pristine lake, a thrilling bout Cost: RMB949 beachside seafood beside roaring bonfires of white-water rafting, a refresh- Scan the QR code to in the evenings and scramble atop Gouqi’s ing swim in cool, clean waters, an learn more and book stately hills and cliffs, all while breathing exhilarating, high-speed zip-lining your spot on this ex- deeply from unspoiled ocean air and indul- experience, a peaceful hike through citing trip gent seaside calm. sublime bamboo forests and wholesome, vegetarian-friendly country Dates: June 16-18 (Dragon Boat Festival) Cost: RMB2,399 Scan the QR code to learn more and book your spot on this exciting trip Volcano Trekking and Outdoor Camping near Shanghai If you’ve ever wanted to camp in the Dates: June 16-18 (Dragon Boat shadow of an ancient volcano, this trip is Festival) for you. A multi-day guided trek through Cost: RMB999 the forested East China backcountry, this Scan the QR code to overland ramble will take intrepid hikers learn more and book through forested valleys, ancient villages, your spot on this ex- bamboo-covered hillsides, terraced fields citing trip and a Buddhist temple. Handmade straw sandals will be provided for fording shal- low streams, and those who don’t have their own can rent backpacks and camping gear. Cool down in gloriously swim- mable lake water in the afternoon and enjoy crackling campfires and a restorative BBQ feast in the evening. Though vigor- ous, the hiking level is fairly approachable and porters can be hired for those who prefer not to carry their own loads.

COVER STORY 45 ITCHY FEET A Guide to the Best Destinations in the Asia-Pacific Region By Matthew Bossons

Living in the southern region of China, VANUATU we are fortunate enough to have access For many, the tiny island nation of to a myriad of daily flights to amazing Vanuatu came onto the radar in 2004 when the hit American reality TV show destinations around the globe. Now, with Survivor staged their ninth season there. the summer months barreling down on Formerly known as the New Hebrides, us, we’ve decided to take a look at some Vanuatu is an archipelago of 83 islands, of the hottest destinations in the Asia- of which the largest is Espiritu Santo. Visitors to Espiritu Santo are spoiled for Pacific region. choice when it comes to activities: divers can explore the SS President Coolidge, In this section, we’ve asked three China- listed by The Times as one of the top 10 based travel experts – Luo Lei, a travel wreck diving sites in the world in 2007. industry journalist with Guangzhou Daily, Trekkers can undertake multiday hiking adventures on the island, and beach Zeng Dafeng from Nanhu International bums can kick back at Champagne Travel Agency, and Edda Joyce Garcia, Beach, dubbed by some as the South a Shanghai-based travel consultant with Pacific’s ‘most beautiful beach.’ Flight Centre Travel Group – to share their top picks.

TOTTORI, JAPAN Some head to Japan for sushi, others for the Tokyo nightlife. Us? We’re most fascinated with the western city of Tottori and its majestic sand dunes, which make for amazing photos and offer the chance to ride camels and sandboard. The main section of the dunes runs for 2 kilo- meters from east to west, and if you arrive early enough, you can witness the distinctive wind-carved patterns in the sand before the swarming visitors trample them into oblivion. It’s also recommended to visit the ruins of Tottori Castle, a structure that was destroyed in a 19th century siege. Visit Tottori in July to partake in the San In Beach Party, hailed as one of the best outdoor events in Japan.

COVER STORY 46 PALAU Located on the vast expanse of aqua- blue ocean to the southeast of the Philippines, Palau fits the definition of paradise to a T. The island group is a Mecca for divers, who come to experience the tiny nation’s vibrant PORT coral reefs and world-famous ‘Jellyfish Lake.’ In chatting with divers familiar MORESBY, with Palau’s undersea offerings, several spots were noted: Chandelier Cave, which boasts beautiful stalactites and PAPUA limestone formations in its five connected caves; Peleliu Wall, which is NEW located off the island of Peleliu and offers the chance to see huge sea fans GUINEA and coral, as well as sharks and even The capital city of Papua New Guinea, the rare pygmy killer whale; and the Port Moresby is serviced by direct Helmet Wreck, a sunken vessel dating flights from Hong Kong – a trip that back to WWII. takes close to seven hours. While the city’s beaches may not be quite as picturesque as other parts of PNG, intrepid visitors to Port Moresby are rewarded with beautiful natural surroundings (Varirata National Park), fascinating museums and historical sites and seafood aplenty. Oh, and FIJI great coffee. We recommend visiting Composed of 330 islands, most during September, when you can ex- of which are uninhabited, Fiji lies perience the revelry that accompanies in the South Pacific, approximately the three-day Hiri Moale Festival. Held 10-and-a-half hours away from on Ela Beach, the celebration – which Hong Kong by plane. With spec- involves thrilling canoe races – has tacular beaches for lounging and been hailed by Lonely Planet as “Port swimming, colorful reefs for diving Moresby’s big event.” and snorkeling and a range of fascinating cultural and adventure attractions, this archipelago offers something for everyone – from adrenaline junkies to families and honeymooners. While the tem- perature in Fiji stays consistently hot year-round, its peak season for tourists falls between July and September.

COVER STORY 47 GILI ISLANDS, INDONESIA These three little islands situated off the northwest tip of Lombok are a one-and-a- half to three-hour boat ride from Bali. The Gili Islands – Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air – have been backpacker hot- spots since the 1980s. Like many of the lo- cations featured on this list, diving is a major draw here, although other activities like yoga and surfing are also popular. Others visit the Gilis to relax, or indulge in the islands’ infamous mind-altering smoothies. Peak tourist months are July and August, as well as December and January, and the rainy season runs approximately from November to April.

POKHARA, NEPAL The second most populous city in Nepal, Pokhara is perhaps best known as the starting point for treks into the Annapurna region, including the journey to Annapurna Sanctuary. Dubbed ‘the tourism capital of Nepal,’ Pokhara hosts an untold number of adventure opportunities in addition to trekking. These include mountain biking, rock climbing, spelunking, paragliding, whitewater rafting, kayaking and much more. In Pokhara, you can also learn more about Nepal’s legendary Gurkha soldiers, many of whom call the city home.

COVER STORY 48 SOUTH KOREA A part of the globe that just can’t seem to stay out of the news of late, South Korea is a good vacation spot for foodies, whose cuisine has evolved over centuries of social and cultural interactions with its neighbors and offers a range of tastes and textures prepared through a variety of cooking methods. Indulge in deli- CAMBODIA cious Korean barbecue, or, if noo- Much like its heavily-visited neighbor dles are more your jam, sample the to the west, Cambodia has no short- naengmyeon (cold buckwheat noo- age of spectacular spots: the famous dles) with a side of kimchi. For those Angkor Archaeological Park – home less interested in edibles, South Korea of Angkor Wat – in Siem Reap; the offers shopping opportunities galore, floating villages of Tonle Sap Lake, as well as the chance to visit the a UNESCO Man and Biosphere re- DMZ, the border between North and serve; and Sihanoukville, the nation’s South Korea, a place once described premier beach zone (to name a few). by former US President Bill Clinton as But unlike Thailand, Cambodia also ‘the scariest place on earth.’ hosts an array of more grisly sites, namely the Killing Fields and S-21 Prison – both sad relics of the geno- cide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and ’79. The choice activities here are temple exploration, scuba diving, marlin fishing and, like KASHGAR, the rest of Southeast Asia, foodie fun. CHINA An ancient trading town set along the route of the old Silk Road, Kashgar is certainly one of China’s most unique tourism destinations. With two millen- nia of deep-rooted history, Kashgar is the largest Uyghur-majority settlement in the country and as such, is a fantastic place to learn about Uyghur culture and sample its delightful cuisine. While visiting Kashgar’s old town and bustling Sunday bazaar come highly recommended, we urge the adventurous traveler to hit the Karakoram Highway – which travels to Pakistan – for spectacular mountain vistas and glassy, blue lakes. If time permits, visit Tashkurgan, the home of China’s Tajik minority, which lies in close proximity to the Afghan, Pakistani and Tajik borders.

COVER STORY 49 CITY SCENES That’s PRD Live Reading Party Spring 2018 (Supported by )

ofOn fellow May 19, expats more living than ina dozenthe region. finalists We'd from like the to thankThat's all PRD who Spring participated, 2018 Writing including Contest those gathered who submitted at Atlas Coffeewriting in to Guangzhou the contest for and a night those of who live courageouslyreadings, drinks stepped and prizes. on stage Many to readtraveled their all work the wayaloud. from It's Shenzhen not easy to to share spend one's two hourspersonal listening thoughts to the in frontpoems, of anfictional audience, pieces but and everyone travel storieswho at - tended knows how valuable the experience was!

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widebrands range in Turkey of Turkish with dessertsa history and of over dishes. 167 years, officially opened its first branch in Guangzhou and China at large last month. Its appetizing ice creams are known for a unique texture and flavor which combines goat milk, salep flour, honey and various fresh fruits. Mado Cafe also offers a

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he Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia, Guangzhou, organized a Tspecial event last month to showcase Indonesian culture through authentic food, n May 8, LN Garden Hotel of the Lingnan Group hosted a night of culinary marvels: Diner dance and music. The event, held from May 11-13 at China Plaza in Guangzhou, was open famous chefs from across the globe, including some from Michelin-starred restaurants. LN O to the public and featured a wide range of des Grand Chefs’ for Bocuse d’Or Asia-Pacific, 2018. The dinner was attended by over 100 snacks, traditional dance performances by an This past month, GL events and Lingnan Group brought the world’s top cuisine competition, Bocuse Garden Hotel’s banquet team coordinated with five chefs to execute the menu for over 300 guests. a round-trip ticket to the equatorial country. Indonesian troupe and raffle prizes – including d’Or, to Guangzhou for the first time.

nited Family Healthcare is proud to announce the latest and largest addi- Ution to the network of United Family Hospitals across China. Located in Pazhou, the hospital will deliver comprehensive word-class Heritage Month, where a blend of Chinese and Western performances were staged. The healthcare services including labor and delivery, Oeventn May concluded 19, 180 guests with gathereda wine-sealing at the ceremonyLN Garden led Hotel by VIPto celebrate guests CG Asian Charles Pacific Bennett, American Mr. post-partum rehabilitation, surgery, inpatient Doron Bard and Mr. Bill Couch. Attendees also sealed a ‘wish note’ inside a bottle, which is to re- hospitalization, and 24-hour emergency care. main sealed for a decade, after which participants may return to open their bottle and read their wish.

tudents from the British School of Guangzhou recently attended n concert with Urban Family, Stone Eden British Nursery hosted 20 the MIT’s annual Science Week as part of their collaboration with - S saw participants enjoy a hands-on taste of what the early education shops covering robotics, coding, biology, music and medicine. I families for a fun-filled day of Teddy bear-themed games. The event the university. The five-day event saw the students enjoy work institute has to offer its young students.

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THE SCANDALOUS SCOOP FROM THE KITCHEN We’re digging: Bocuse d’Or Lands in Guangzhou

The recent spike in whisk(e)y tasting events in Guangzhou; the upcoming ‘big reveal’ on who won Michelin stars in the

and reasonably priced meals in Xiaobei (pagesfirst Guangzhou 58-59); beer Michelin pong Guide;tournaments delicious at Harena (page 62); delicious Thai eats at Mango Tree in K11 Mall; and the highly-anticipated reopening of Pandan Indonesian Cuisine in Yuexiu after a slow retreat from Guangzhou’s F&B scene over the past two years.

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Bocuse d’Or, the global cooking contest that

other in a battle of culinary wits, hosted its months’gladiators Continental to select a Selection,final champion. followed pits the world’s finest chefs against each by Thailand,Japan’s team South took Korea, first Australia prize at last and Guangzhou last month. Singapore. And how did China fare? Asia-Pacific Continental Selection round in Patriotic food fans will be happy to learn d’Or graced Guangzhou with its saucy that though they did not place, Team China antics.This Readers was not may the recallfirst time that, that back Bocuse in was selected as a ‘Wild Card’ winner and February, culinary conjurers from around the country descended on our city for the in Lyon. China National Selection Round of the pres- thusTo will celebrate also advance Bocuse to d’Or, the theglobal LN Gardenfinale tigious competition. Hotel hosted a star-studded cast of Michelin This return visit, however, marked the rated chefs who indulged VIP guests in familiesThe frenzied at morning fists and tea deadly in Jiangmen dim sum when - course after course of expertly prepared sea- bothprojectiles groups that claimed flew betweenthe same two table rival as tinental selection round in the contest’s food and mouthwatering desserts. their own; McDonald’s newest Michelin- 31-year-longfirst time China history has played and the host scene to a in con the inspired sandwiches; and Guangzhou’s stands at the Baiyun Convention Center, recent taxi fare hike, which has made where the live action cook-off took place, getting home after a late night of boozing noticeably more expensive. Two days of slicing, dicing, sauteing was one of fitting enthusiasm.

showdownand flambeing in Lyon, produced France six next happy January. winners who will proceed to the tournament’s final of the world’s most capable gastronomical There, finalists will join battle with some

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COCKTAIL WHAT’S ON WAIMAI La César’s Durian Pizza Smoky Rob Roy Durian is a divisive fruit. We know that hastily baked, Created back in 1894 by a Pungent in its raw form, it is fruit-salad pizzas replete with Waldorf Astoria bartender, adored by contrarians for the corn and mayonnaise are a this icon of the cocktail scene shock value and unapproach- dime-a-dozen in major Chinese celebrated the premiere of the ability of its undeniable cities but trust us as former operetta with the same name. stink and the allegedly skeptics when we say that It’s normally a simple com- - Le César’s durian pie bo of blended scotch, vermouth cealed beneath it. is a cut above, a fact delicate flavors con and a dash of bitters, but we We’ve always that’s admittedly been of the opin- can take it in a smoky direction Directions with Penderyn Celt (a smooth ion that, while point. The only thing reflected in its price- and light barley whisky, ma- Measure out the ingredients missing is a little tured in peated casks). into a glass with ice. Give it black pepper or dried it tastes fine, the The key thing is the ratio: a swirl to chill, then pour have never really out- off the liquid into a serving weighedflavors of its durian pronounced tropi- Next time you’re craving two measures of whisky to one glass. Garnish with a bit of cal pong. So it’s with great re- chili flakes. of vermouth. orange peel and pretend luctance that we concede that, – give Le César’s a try. You may you’ve been making drinks when mashed to a paste, spread surprisesomething yourself. filling – but different Ingredients (two servings) like this for years. tenderly over dough and baked under a generous helping of Price: RMB60-90 two measures of Penderyn This month’s cocktail comes Good for: overcoming stereo- Celt to us from Jesse Hopwood, the spiky fruit attains a savory types, lazy dinners one measure of red vermouth Shenzhen-based brewer, whis- richnessmozzarella and cheese, creamy the nuttiness flesh of Search for: lekaisa pisa two drops of bitters ky aficionado and booze guru. that is unrivaled in the plant 乐凯撒 kingdom. Available披萨 on: Meituan, Eleme

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During our tenure in Guangzhou we’ve come to realize that many Westerners don’t invest a considerable amount of time exploring the fascinating and diverse neighborhood that is Xiaobei. This is a shame, because in addition to cool shops and wholesale markets, there are some great places to dine. That’s why, this month, we’ve decided to introduce you to six of our favorite spots to snack, scoff down king-sized meals and sip a cold pint in Xiaobei.

New Medina Namaste Kitchen

With three distinct menus covering African, Arab, Chinese and Inconspicuously located in a large concrete pillar attached to a Indian cuisines, New Medina is one of Xiaobei’s most popular joints. car park entrance, Namaste Kitchen can be a tad difficult to locate Like most eateries in the area, halal is the name of the game here for first-time visitors. But a journey here is well rewarded. As the and, in addition to adhering to Islamic dietary laws, New Medina restaurant specializes in Nepalese cuisine, we recommend diving also harbors a Muslim prayer room. Choice dishes include the veg- into its abundant curry offerings; it’s also advised to sample the gie pakora curry, egg curry and the hefty and succulent chicken vegetable momos (a Nepalese-style dumpling). Visit during lunch shawarma wrap (which sells for only RMB25!). and dinner to enjoy a diverse all-you-can-eat menu for RMB55 (for carnivores) and RMB50 (for vegetarians). Shop No.2, 8-1 Baohan Zhi Jie, Xiaobei Lu, Yuexiu District 越秀区小北路下塘宝汉直街8号之一第二铺 Parking lot, 2/F, Block B, Yueyang Business Building, 2 Baohan Zhi Jie, Xiaobei Lu, Yuexiu District 越秀区小北路宝汉直街2号越洋商贸城B区2楼停车场

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This bar slash restaurant is undoubtedly our favorite watering hole in Xiaobei. A popular hangout amongst African expats and visitors to the city, Moustache Bar serves a mean grilled fish: the perfect meal to soak up the establishment’s super-cheap suds (RMB13 for a large bottle of Heineken). The lamb skewers on offer are seasoned with a zesty array of spices and cooked to near-perfection. Round out the meal with fufu (RMB15), a polenta-like staple from Nigeria, and close it all out with the oily sweetness of a West African classic: fried plantains (RMB15).

Shop No.1, 8-1 Baohan Zhi Jie, Xiaobei Lu, Yuexiu District 越秀区小北路下塘宝汉直街8号之一第一铺 Hadramout

Operating out of its third floor location in the New Honghui Wholesale Market for more than seven years, this Yemeni eatery serves fairly priced Middle Eastern cuisine to a diverse clientele of African and Arab diners in the heart of Xiaobei. Fresh, tasty salads (we recommend the fattoush, RMB30), rich, creamy dips (RMB30) and its proximity to the metro make it a perfect pit stop for a quick healthy lunch, while indulgent platters of barbecued lamb and fowl (RMB40-70) make for succulent dinners. Spicy lentil soup is complimentary, the Hui Muslim staff are friendly and the two large TV screens tuned to Al Jazeera and Al Arabiyah news channels will keep you abreast of the latest events in the Middle East while you dine. Moustache Bar 2/F, Yidong Building, 303 Huanshi Dong Lu, Yuexiu District 越秀区环市东路303号怡东大厦2楼

Ankara Restaurant

Sharma Ji

Nestled in the upper reaches of Baohan Zhijie, Xiaobei’s main commercial and culinary artery, is Ankara. Though by no means the Established in 1999, Sharmaji is Guangzhou's first pure vegetari- finest Turkish eatery the city has to offer (Ankara is a little rough an Indian restaurant. Serving Northern and Southern home-style around the edges), the two-story shop offers reasonably authentic favorites like paneer tikka (RMB40) and masala dosa (RMB45), renditions of Anatolian classics at a fraction of the cost of its glitzier this authentic eatery attracts a stream of regulars who flock counterparts. The baba ganoush and hummus (RMB22) are both there for its well-priced buffet (RMB60 for breakfast and lunch, winning dips for the house-baked bread (RMB5) while a whole RMB70 for dinner). Don't forget to finish off with a steaming cup range of mutton kebabs (RMB50) round out the extensive menu. of masala tea, yum. Slather it all in creamy dollops of outstanding Turkish-style yogurt 8 Lujing Lu, Yuexiu District 越秀区麓景路8号 (8357 0090) (RMB15) or wash it down with salty ayran (RMB18).

22 Baohan Zhi Jie, Xiaobei Lu, Yuexiu District 越秀区小北路宝汉直街22号 OCTOBER (8359 1557)

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country, as they cook up a respectful take on its adored culinary repertoire. There’s all the essentials, from gado gado (RMB27) to PANDAN soto ayam (RMB29), and seafood staples like grilled prawns (RMB59). The impossibly enjoyable chicken satay, INDONESIAN with juicy bits of meat, is served with peanut dipping sauce, like those sold from street stalls. Fried and served with green chili, the RESTAURANT ayam bakar cabe ijo is a treat at just RMB42. A Sublime Comeback a seafood nasi goreng (RMB38) that lives up toOn its the name. rice section of the menu, you can find By Lena Gidwani Many dishes come with homemade sam- bals, and it’s worth ordering a side of each. They showcase the same deft complexity that appears in the restaurant’s curries. The beef The Place curry (RMB49) in particular is musky and rich. The kitchen does hold back a wee bit on For those of you who know the ‘Zhou, you’d spice levels to sate local palates, so if you’re know that Pandan had quite a cult following. seeking a punchier dose of spice or a sweat- So, when all three branches shut down recent- inducing experience, ask for it to be cranked ly, disappointed tongues were left wagging, Price: RMB80 up or you’ll be left disappointed. Who’s going: reminiscent Pandan fans, curry China Plaza is this authentic Indonesian gem. lovers so to speak. Making a bona fide comeback at The Vibe Good for: a taste of Indonesia, sambal, sate ayam The same team of cooks and servers that led back.To find it, snake around the phone shops on Nearest metro: Martyrs Park (Exit A), 5 min- Pandan prior to closure is back in full force, the fourth floor; it’s tucked away towards the utes so expect service that is familiar, warm and The Food cozy. It looks like the community’s hankering Daily, 10am-10pm; Shop B5, 4/F, China Plaza, 33 for a recognizable taste has just made all of At Pandan, there’s a telling of a story of a Zhongshan San Lu, Yuexiu District 越秀区中山三路33号 our lives more delectable, again. 中华广场4楼B5铺 (8301 0476)

The popular lushui goose, familiar to gourmands in Guangdong, also makes The Vibe an appearance in the form of separate In a word, quiet. Despite its spacious housing LUDAO BRINE marinated dishes including wings (RMB38), meat (RMB48), necks (RMB22) and heads scores of more traditional Sichuan hot pot (RMB68). Hot pot classics on the menu in- eateries,on a second this floor experimental on Xingsheng Chaoshan Lu among venture HOT POT clude a spread of meats, vegetables, seafood was, nonetheless, poorly patronized on our (including spiny lobster for RMB138), as well Saturday night visit compared to its steamy Revolutionary or Sacrilegious? next-door neighbors. By Tristin Zhang balls (RMB48) and shrimp balls (RMB32). as someOne ofChaoshan the perks specialties of dining likeat Ludao cuttlefish is the Price: RMB100-200 Who’s going: Chinese families, Chaoshan folks dipping sauces. Here, on a dedicated sauce Good for: saucing your own meal, marinated standflexibility in the of middleconcocting of the your restaurant, own bespoke over a goose The Place dozen spices and toppings sit ready in jars, Nearest metro: Liede (Exit D), 10 minutes ranging from diced scallions to garlic oil, Guangzhou has seen a minor explosion of the smashed garlic, sesame oil, chopped peppers Daily, 11am-11pm; 2/F, Xingsheng Hui, Xingsheng Lu, lushui phenomenon – meats, eggs or other ed- and more. Tianhe District 天河区兴盛路兴盛汇2楼 (8981 6789) ibles marinated with a spice-heavy soy sauce native to eastern Guangdong’s Chaoshan region – in the past two years. For Chaoshan folks who grew up with lushui dishes on their dining table, using lushui as a hotpot stock sounds revolutionary, if not sacrilegious. Thankfully, the recently opened Guangzhou branch of Ludao Brine Hot Pot is up to snuff.

The Food Animal pluck is increasingly shunned by urban dwellers; however, here at Ludao, a variety of goose organs are listed in the ‘must-eat’ section of the menu, which, conveniently, also recommends an ideal cooking time for each.

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SUNSHINE BAY CAFE You’ll Be Walking on Sunshine By Lena Gidwani

tion of superfoods like coconut flakes, chia outdoor lounge chairs, melt to some soothing The Place seeds and goji berries. For a dose of daily pro- beats, soak in some vitamin D and drink your Located just across the K11 entrance in the tein, add a serving of whey powder for RMB15. meal. And if you try hard enough, you’ll hear heart of Zhujiang New Town, this bright, airy Nutrient-packed juices like the kaffir aroma the faint sound of rustling palm trees in the far cafe is your go-to if you’re looking for fresh, (RMB29) and toxin flush (RMB32) are made to distance. nourishing or even raw ‘farm to plate’ fare. order, so expect to wait a few minutes for ser- Touting all the buzz words from vegan to vice. Salads are a feature too: try the hummus Price: RMB60-100 gluten-free, Sunshine Bay appears to attract avocado (RMB59), a large serving of crisp hy- Who’s going: health junkies, those on island an eclectic, conscious crowd. On our visit, droponically-harvested kale, topped with egg, time, boot campers we spotted a merry band of yoga enthusiasts sliced avocado, pumpkin seeds and a generous Good for: vitality and freshness in a bowl (or stretching away in unison, a group of middle- serving of homemade hummus. plate), healthy grab-and-go eats aged men chomping down on fresh fruit, and Those seeking a hit of carbs should grab a Nearest metro: Huacheng Dadao (APM Line), several smaller clusters, from families to lean sandwich (RMB35-45); two whole grain slices 1 minute young lasses posing for selfies. crammed with nutritious toppings like chicken, tomato and pesto. Seeking a non-greasy break- Open daily, 8am-8pm; Shop 109, IMP, 68 Huacheng fast? The parfait (RMB35-39) layers homemade Dadao, Tianhe District天河区花城大道68号环球都会广场首层109铺 (8928 4469) The Food Greek yogurt, granola and fruits, with just a hint of sweetness from a spoonful of honey. For those familiar with the brand (synonymous New additions to the morning meal include with delivery of fresh fruits, vegetables and guacamole, cucumber and smoked salmon on superfoods), most of their constantly expand- toast (RMB45) and cooked oats with chia seeds ing menu offerings are organic and vary slightly in coconut milk, topped with nuts and fruits depending on the season and availability. (RMB45). There’s an array of vibrant salads, sandwiches, smoothies, fresh-pressed juices, parfaits, fruit platters, vitality bowls, organic teas and coffees, The Vibe and daily specials that spring from the vast im- It’s all wholesome at Sunshine, where the agination of Juan, the cafe’s exuberant owner. casual ambiance is inviting and the mood light. Sunshine’s signature is undoubtedly the - acai bowl, a nutritional powerhouse made from ions and lush green plants strewn around care- a thick blend of antioxidant-rich acai berries lessly,There’s juxtaposed pineapples, against flamingo-embossed the modern vastness cush and bananas, topped with granola and a selec- of the surrounding area. Sit back on one of their

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HARENA BEER PONG BAR AND RESTAURANT Boozy Americana Meets Guangzhou Sophistication By Daniel Plafker

eer-pong. It's a pastime more often friends in chivalrous boozy combat. clientele, have taken to it with enthusiasm. associated with the sticky frat house It’s a well-staffed place: uniformed In a happy surprise, the energetic and Bbasements of North American col- hostesses greet visitors at the door, smartly inventive nightlife venue also boasts a full lege towns than the ritzy club scenes of dressed wait staff fan out attentively across kitchen and a truly impressive food menu major Chinese cities. So we must admit that the large, club-like interior and a busy bar that’s astoundingly affordable given the we didn’t quite know what to expect from swanky location. A remarkably delicious Harena’s recent entry into Xingsheng Lu’s a giant, stadium-like scoreboard. There are crowded and competitive barscape. eventeam tablekeep attendantsthe liquids flowingsporting from playful under LED thick-cut fries and a heap of creamy ‘slaw. Founded by a beautiful and ambitious nametags and red jackets who – in a role not Thefish-and-chips mushroom burger and pumpkin (RMB58) soups comes (RMB38), with young Cantonese-Canadian entrepreneur, unlike blackjack dealers at a Macau casino both outstanding, are richly seasoned and Harena cuts a striking image on the street’s – help keep score, explain the rules, restack beautifully presented. In a nod to the owner’s south side with its brightly illuminated cups and catch errant balls. years in the Great White North, there are entrance. The venue takes its name from It’s an odd mix of classy and laid back, but even two types of poutine! Sure, the bur- it works. The sporty, competitive atmosphere ritos (RMB48) are underwhelming and the absorbed the blood of gladiators in the of athletic wall decals, referees and bouncing deep-fried cheese balls that come with an the Latin word for the fine, soft sand that Coliseum of old and, with a half-dozen state- ping pong balls is offset by chic lighting, pro- otherwise succulent whole roast chicken of-the-art tables for beer pong, pool, stack- fessional staff and a club-like vibe. This novel drag down the bird with their dusty, back-of- cup and other high-energy drinking games, the-freezer cheapness, but Harena is a place there’s plenty of opportunity to engage your screen TVs, which alternate between live where you can enjoy a full sit-down dinner in dichotomy is reflected on high-mounted flat soccer broadcasts and fashion show runway a lux, contemporary atmosphere for less than reels. is charged at many of the city’s popular pubs. The pong itself, played on sleek, lit-up tables bearing the Harena brand to the Price: RMB150 thumping beat of driving hip-hop, costs Who’s going: nostalgic ‘sea-turtles’, fans of RMB128 per 1.5-liter round. Price-wise, this Animal House, live-streaming celebs means RMB42 pints consumed in a unique Good for: settling scores, a high-energy night and entertaining battle of drunken dexterity. out with friends Though the game is relatively new to many Nearest metro: Liede (Exit D), 8 minutes in China, the wealthy ex-emigres and Eastern European models who, on the night of our Open daily, 5pm-2am; 6 Xingsheng Lu, Tianhe visit, seemed to make up the bulk of Harena’s District 天河区兴盛路6号 (8899 2333)

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peakeasies are becoming increasingly common in Guangzhou. Some may even Ssay they are the bar-type of choice for folks opening new establishments in the city. But with Whispers, located above Kung Food restaurant in Panyu District, veteran Guangzhou expat Rob Turnbull is looking to buck the trend. Sure, the bar slash lounge hosts a secret entrance – an important speakeasy trait – but

based on price: RMB60 per 50-milimeter Price: RMB60-100 aforementionedat Whispers you liquors.won’t find No, vodka, Whispers rum is or all dram from bottles on the bottom shelf, Who’s going: Panyu’s classiest drinkers, sin- abouttequila, whisk(e)y. nor will you find cocktails bearing the RMB80 per dram from the middle-shelf bot- gle malt maniacs Celebrated Japanese author Haruki tles and RMB100 and up for top-shelf pours. Good for: pondering life while sipping a Murakami once said, “Whisky, like a beautiful On our visit, we sampled the Bowmore cool glass of whisk(e)y 12 (RMB60), a single malt scotch whisky with Nearest metro: Nancun Wanbo (Exit A), 10 then it’s time to drink.” Mr. Murakami would woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, a delicate and intriguing peat-smoke taste. minutes Turnbull and his staff tend to a collection of Scotch an accessible starting point for Islay- Tues-Sun, 7pm-2.30am; 2/F, Shop 14, 2nd Street, 88find whiskies lots to gaze – from at inside Scotch Whispers, and Irish wherewhiskey styleSmooth experimentation. from nose to finish, Among we Turnbull’s found this Huanan Country Garden Main Gate, Panyu District to bourbon and Japanese varieties. favorites is the Nikka Coffey Grain (RMB80), a 番禺区番禺大道华南碧桂园正门右侧商业2街14铺 (159 Behind the bar, three shelves divide the 1316 7127 ) smooth Japanese whisky that offers the curi- lounge’s selection of whiskeys and whiskys

ous tippler a pleasant, sweet finish.

WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | JUNE 2018 | GZ | 63 Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra Classical Music Joanna Wang Pop

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Leo Kalyan EDM

Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter Joanna Wang dropped out of high school at 16 years old and, 4 years later, her debut album, Start From Here was released. The record went on to reach No. 1 on Taiwan’s charts and earned her popularity throughout Southeast A child of East London’s electronic dance Asia. Raised in the US, Wang was first scene, Kalyan fuses a trip-hop sound exposed to music by Danny Elfman, Paul with influences from classical Indian mu- McCartney and video game soundtracks. sic, Bollywood and R&B artists. His emo- The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra returns to Guangzhou for the first time She sings in both in English and Chinese. tive, authentic, pop-inflected tunes have since 2003, this time performing under the baton of Austrian maestro Andrés Orozco- Wed Jun 6, 7.30pm; RMB380. earned him a coveted spot on the play- Estrada. One of Germany’s longest-running symphony orchestras, it has succeeded in Guangzhou Gymnasium, 783 Baiyun list of BBC 1Xtra, funding from the PRS preserving tradition while meeting the rigorous challenges of the cutthroat contempo- Dadao Nan, Baiyun District 白云区白 Music Foundation and an appearance rary classical music scene. The orchestra is famed for its outstanding wind section, rich- 云大道南783号广州体育馆 (damai.cn) at SXSW. The fact that he’s a gay Muslim ly layered strings and its track record of dynamic performances. This time, performing musician who has consistently resisted at Xinghai Concert Hall, the esteemed orchestra will present Mahler’s ‘Synphony No.5.’ being pigeonholed by the industry on Tue Jun 5, 8pm; RMB280-1,380. Xinghai Concert Hall, 33 Qingbo Lu, Ersha these accounts, is another achievement Island, Yuexiu District 越秀区二沙岛晴波路33号星海音乐厅 (ticket-easy.cn) Childs Post-rock in itself. Sat Jun 2, 8.30pm; RMB120 presale, RMB150 at the door. Mao Livehouse, 1/F, Zhongzhou Trading Center, Huizhan Nan Wu Lu, Haizhu District 海珠区会展南五路中州交易中心1楼 (247tickets.com) Musical project Childs is the brainchild Sleep Party People of Mexican guitarist and songwriter Dream Pop Paul Marron, whose music has been described as “electronic lullabies” and “bedroom blues,” boasting a melange of anime aesthetics, dreampop, IDM, shoegaze and post-rock influences. Childs’ complex early sound, elevated by the creative contributions of several musical collaborators who had since joined the project, culminated in the The rabbit mask-wearing musician release of their debut album Yui. For 17 Brian Batz, who is known as Sleep Party years, members have come and gone, People, will be in town this month but Marron’s endeavor to produce to get Guangzhouers hopping to his the lullabies of the future has never Scandinavian sound. Batz has won a changed. Catch Childs at Mao Livehouse worldwide following with his consist- this month. ently unique grooves. The eccentric Fri Jun 8, 8.30-10pm; RMB120 Dane and his nutty accomplices have presale, RMB160 at the door. Mao been enthusiastically weaving dreamy Livehouse, 1/F, Zhongzhou Trading atmospheres at live performances the Center, Huizhan Nan Wu Lu, Haizhu world over. With the group’s impending District 海珠区会展南五路中州交易中 performance at Mao Livehouse early 心1楼 (showstart.com) this month, Guangzhouers too will get a chance to jump in on the action. Tue Jun 5, 8.30-10pm; RMB100 win! presale, RMB120 at the door. Mao We have one pair of tickets to this show to give away! Message our official Livehoue, 1/F, Zhongzhou Trading WeChat account (ThatsGuangzhou) be- Center, Huizhan Nan Wu Lu, Haizhu fore June 6 with the subject ‘Childs’ and District 海珠区会展南五路中州交易中 why you should win. Please include your 心1楼 (showstart.com) full name and contact number.

64 | GZ | JUNE 2018 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM Ludovico Einaudi Secondhand Rose Chinese Rock Joce Mienniel Jazz Piano

French flutist Joce Mienniel is adept at communicating emotions in a hypnotic, electrified voice. His ensemble is composed of musicians who each take a The minimalist compositions of Italy’s very unique approach to their respective Einaudi have won a strong following instruments. The drummer is powerful, over the decades, with chart-topping al- conveying a feeling of earthly gravity, the bums and sales in the millions. The com- guitarist boasts a broad and expansive poser smashes the divisions between Since its inception in 1999, Chinese rock band Ershou Meigui (Secondhand Rose) have sound that helps create a sensation genres, forging an alchemical fusion of been producing folk-rock music “with Chinese characteristics,” infusing traditional ele- of distant, extended aural landscapes, classical, rock, electronica and world mu- ments local to Northeastern China with driving percussion and wailing guitar, resulting while the keyboard player works the sic for films and television, not to men- in an unprecedented sound. Their live shows, where lead vocalist Liang Long is, more sound’s texture and builds a sense of tion his sold-out live performances. often than not, dressed as a woman with heavy makeup (borrowing from a common narrative plot. Fri Jun 8, 8pm; RMB280-1,280. trope in traditional Chinese operas), are a spectacle to behold. See for yourself during Mon Jun 25, 8-9.30pm; RMB150 Xinghai Concert Hall, 33 Qingbo Lu, their visit in Guangzhou this month. presale, RMB230 at the door. Zhile Ersha Island, Yuexiu District 越秀区二 Mon Jun 18, 8.30-10pm; RMB199 presale, RMB249 at the door. Mao Livehouse, Art Space, Rm. 1805, Hejing Ruifeng 沙岛晴波路33号星海音乐厅 (247tick- 1/F, Zhongzhou Trading Center, Huizhan Nan Wu Lu, Haizhu District 海珠区会展 Buiding, 12 Haile Lu, Tianhe District ets.com) 南五路中州交易中心1楼 (showstart.com) 天河区海乐路12号合景睿峰大厦1805 室知乐艺术空间 (showstart.com)

Sophie Zelmani Folk The Last of the Azure Ray Dream Pop Bruskers Guitar Duo Music Mohicans Instrumental Jazz Guitar

Swedish songstress Sophie Zelmani swept onto the Scandinavian stage in The Bruskers Guitar Duo are Italian gui- 1996, winning ‘Best Newcomer’ at the tarists Eugenio Polacchini and Matteo Swedish equivalent of the Grammy The dreamy melancholy of this female Minozzi, who use jazz as a common Awards with the release of her self-titled Is imitation the highest form of flat- duo, as exhibited in their debut album ground, creating a repertoire that spans album the previous year. Zelmani had no tery… or appropriation of the sacred? Hold On Love and their follow up album traditional jazz pieces, adaptations of ambition to become internationally fa- Alexandro Querevalú, born in Lima, Peru, Draw Down the Moon, has won praise movie soundtracks and their own origi- mous, yet her songs have been featured and emigrating to Poland at 18, is firmly from fans and critics alike. Catch their nal compositions. Their performance at in TV series such as Dawson’s Creek, in the former camp. Dressing in the brooding soundscapes, delicate vocals the Guangzhou Opera House this month Buffy the Vampire Slayer, My Best Friend’s costume of Native American tribes, he and cloudy harmonies as they cast their will include many familiar tunes, such as Wedding and Independence Day. Revered performs earnest and soulful renditions bittersweet gaze on China with an ap- ‘Take Five' and ‘Fly Me to the Moon.’ Chinese singer Wong Faye later adapted of North America’s indigenous music. pearance at Mao Livehouse this month. Sat June 23, 3pm; RMB180. her song ‘Going Home’ into a Mandarin- You’ll either resonate with the versatility, Tue Jun 19, 8pm; RMB380 presale, Guangzhou Opera House, 1 Zhujiang language version titled ‘Passenger.’ For eloquence and emotion he expresses, or RMB480 at the door, RMB680 VIP. Xi Lu, Tianhe District 天河区珠江西路 21 years, Zelmani has been singing from feel like shouting at him to take off the Mao Livehouse, 1/F, Zhongzhou 1号广州大剧院 (3839 2888, gzdjy.org) her heart, releasing 10 albums to enthu- damn headdress. Trading Center, Huizhan Nan Wu Lu, siastic fans all over the world. If you dig Fri Jun 22, 8pm; RMB180-380. Xinghai Haizhu District 海珠区会展南五路中州 win! the style of Jack Johnson, Keren Ann or Concert Hall, 33 Qingbo Lu, Ersha 交易中心1楼 (247tickets.com) We have one pair of tickets to this show to give away! Message our official Suzanne Vega, you will not want to miss Island, Yuexiu District 越秀区二沙岛晴 WeChat account (ThatsGuangzhou) be- Zelmani live. 波路33号星海音乐厅 (ticket-easy.cn) fore June 21 with the subject ‘Bruskers’ Sat Jun 30, 8-9.30pm; RMB280-480. and why you should win. Please include Guangzhou Friendship Theater, 696 your full name and contact number. Renmin Bei Lu, Yuexiu District 越秀区人民北路696号广州友谊剧院 (247tick- ets.com)

WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | JUNE 2018 | GZ | 65 Swan Lake by Russian Battle Against Garbage State Ballet Ballet Puppetry SEE

Scenes from a Marriage Drama

Founded in 1956, Guangdong Province Puppet Art Theater has cre- Over the last 20 years, the Russian ated more than 300 programs over State Ballet Theater has remained one the past 60 years, including every- of the leading ballet companies in thing from fairy tales to contemporary Russia, enjoying international acclaim. plays. Directed by Chen Xuan, a Its repertoire includes masterpieces of young screenwriter and director at classical ballets as well as some of the the Guangzhou Dramatic Arts Centre world’s finest examples of modern cho- and the creator behind productions reography. With its elaborate costumes, such as Us, Dawn and How Far is vivid set and breathtaking stunts, Swan the Distance, Battle Against Garbage Lake promises audiences a world-class employs several colorful puppets to Swedish writer and film director Ingmar Bergman is eulogized as a national treasure experience. transform a serious social subject into and probably one of the most significant figures in the history of motion pictures. Sat Jun 9, 8pm; RMB180-1,000. a fun-filled play. Take your young ones Bergman has directed more than 60 films and 170 theatrical performances, one of Guangzhou Friendship Theater, 696 to the Guangdong Performing Arts Renmin Bei Lu, Yuexiu District 越秀区 which is Scenes from a Marriage. Originally a TV series and later condensed into a Center Theater and enjoy the living art 人民北路696号广州友谊剧院; Sun Jun stage drama, the play is set against the backdrop of rising divorce rates in Europe. of puppetry! 10, 8pm; RMB180-1,000. Guangdong The story, somewhat based on Bergman’s personal life, spans over 20 years of mar- Sun July 1, 10.30am/3.30pm; RMB90- Performing Arts Center Theater, 1229 riage between the protagonists, one of whom is a family lawyer specializing in 300. Guangdong Performing Arts Guangzhou Dadao Zhong, Tianhe Center Theater, 1229 Guangzhou Dadao divorce, and conveys a sense of fear for married life. District 天河区广州大道中1229号广东 Fri-Sat Jun 8-9, 7.30pm; RMB80-980. Guangzhou Opera House, 1 Zhujiang Xi Lu, Zhong, Tianhe District 天河区广州大道演艺中心剧院 (247tikcets.com) Tianhe District 天河区珠江西路1号广州大剧院 (247tickets.com) 中1229号广东演艺中心剧院 (damai.cn)

win! We have two pairs of tickets to this show to give away! Message our of- Yarlung Tsangpo Tibetan Dance and Music ficial WeChat account (ThatsGuangzhou) before June 6 with the subject ‘Marriage’ and why you should win. Please include your full name and contact number.

¡Muu! by Yllana Comedy

Yarlung Tsangpo is a river that has its origin in the Himalayas and bestows great vitality on the Tibetan people living in the Lhoka region, which is regarded as the birthplace of Tibetan civilization. This dance and music show is created as a tribute to the great river of Yarlung Tsangpo, the wonderful land of Lhoka and the people nurtured by them both, strung together by four chapters: ‘Heaven,’ ‘Earth,’ ‘People,’ Acclaimed Spanish comedy troupe Yllana is one of Europe’s most talked-about groups and ‘Harmony.’ Now in its third edition, the spectacular show is evolving with the of its kind, bringing laughter to audiences across the world with their hilarious produc- addition of more musically and visually striking elements. tions. This month, Yllana is in town with their irreverent humor to perform one of their Tue-Wed Jun 12-13, 7.30pm; RMB80-680. Guangzhou Opera House, 1 Zhujiang earliest works – the hysterical act ¡Muu!. Come and enjoy the show as Yllana’s humor Xi Lu, Tianhe District 天河区珠江西路1号广州大剧院 (3839 2888, gzdjy.com) runs riot. win! Sat-Sun Jun 23-24, 8pm; RMB80-380. Guangdong Performing Arts Center We have two pairs of tickets to this show to give away! Message our of- Theater, 1229 Guangzhou Dadao Zhong, Tianhe District 天河区广州大道中1229 ficial WeChat account (ThatsGuangzhou) before June 10 with the subject ‘Tibet’ and 号广东演艺中心剧院 (damai.cn) why you should win. Please include your full name and contact number.

66 | GZ | JUNE 2018 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM 5-Kuai Beers Happy Hour

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Fish Feast at Hilton Guangzhou Baiyun Buffet Dinner

After a short hiatus, LN Hotel Five is bringing back its wildly popular Happy Hour offer, aka 5-kuai beers on the 5th, 15th and 25th of the month. Choose from a selection of five beers (imports and domestics) or delight yourself in a free flow of house wine at RMB55 per person, all while enjoying the unparalleled views of the Pearl River from LN Served during the buffet dinner at Sense All Day Dining Restaurant are eight differ- Hotel Five’s recently remodeled rooftop bar. ent flavors of crayfish, prepared with chili pepper sauce, curry sauce, pepper and salt Jun 5, 15, 25, 5.30-9.30pm; RMB5 for bottled beer, RMB55 for free flow wine. sauce, garlic sauce, tom yam sauce, Chinese spice sauce, basil sauce and beer sauce. Bar 5, LN Hotel Five, Guangzhou, 277 Yanjiang Zhong Lu, Yuexiu District 越秀区 On top of that, a wide selection of fresh fish, seafood and sashimi – to be washed 沿江中路277号广州岭南五号酒店 (8931 0505) down with a free flow of wine, beer and soft drinks – are waiting to tempt your taste buds. For reservations, call 6660 8076. Daily until Jun 30, 6-10pm; RMB328 plus 15 percent, Sense All Day Dining Restaurant, Hilton Guangzhou Baiyun, 515-517 Yuncheng Dong Lu, Baiyun District 白云区云城东路515-517号广州白云万达希尔顿酒店 (guangzhoubaiyun. Panda All Day Dining Buffet hilton,com, 6660 8076)

Qeelin Afternoon Tea

A buffet restaurant with a parent-child theme, the Panda All Day Dining Restaurant at Chimelong Panda Hotel models its design on the Chinese cartoon The Adventure of Inspired by the shimmering elegance of Qeelin jewelry, this elaborate afternoon tea is Panda Triplets and boasts 850 comfortable seats. A great variety of dishes are on offer expertly crafted by The Ritz-Carlton, Guangzhou’s executive pastry chef and combines here, including sushi, sashimi, an assortment of Cantonese-style marinated meat and Chinese and Western elements. The afternoon tea set includes an eye-catching choco- Cantonese barbecue items. An exciting ‘Panda Animatronic Fantasy Show’ will delight late hazelnut cake in the color of white jade, a deep-fried soft-shell crabmeat sandwich your little ones as they eat. For the duration of June, in-house guests and park visitors topped with mayonnaise and a rice-crusted salmon salad cured with Asian spices, can enjoy 15 percent off when dining at Panda All Day Dining. among other appetizing eats. For reservations, call 3813 6888. Daily until Jun 30, 7-10am, 11.30am-2.30pm, 5.30-9pm; RMB499 for two adults Daily until Jun 30, 2-5.30pm; RMB311 per set, RMB438 for two, plus 15 percent. and one child. Panda All Day Dining, Chimelong Panda Hotel, Chimelong Pearl Lounge, The Ritz-Carlton, Guangzhou, 3 Xing’an Lu, Tianhe District 天河区 Tourist Resort Area, Panyu Dadao, Panyu District 番禺区番禺大道长隆旅游度假区兴安路3号广州富力丽思卡尔顿酒店 (3813 6888) 长隆熊猫酒店 (400 883 0083)

WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | JUNE 2018 | GZ | 67 All You Can Eat Dim Sum at Tea 5 Dim Sum Father’s Day Special at LN Garden Hotel Celebration

Celebrate the special occasion of Father’s Day over enticing culinary delights with spe- Treat yourself to a total of 26 varieties of dim sum at Tea 5 restaurant at the city's pre- cial offers at LN Garden Hotel’s fine dining restaurants. Peach Blossom will offer a com- mier upscale boutique hotel. The fine-dining restaurant is offering a delectable array of plimentary dish of sauteed beef with garlic, while at Carousel, a sumptuous seafood authentic dim sum varieties. Call 8931 0505 for more information. buffet at RMB598 (plus 10 percent) coupled with a free flow of house wines is on offer. Daily all month, 10.30am-2.30pm; RMB98. Tea 5, LN Hotel Five, Guangzhou, For reservation, call 189 2625 8505. 277 Yanjiang Zhong Lu, Yuexiu District 越秀区沿江中路277号广州岭南五号酒店 Sun Jun 17. LN Garden Hotel, Guangzhou, 368 Huanshi Dong Lu, Yuexiu District (8931 0505) 越秀区环市东路368号广州花园酒店 (189 2625 8505)

Guangzhou International Dragon Boat Race Tournament Dragon Boating DO

Rythmo! by Samajam Family

This year’s tournament will again be held on the section of the Pearl River between the North Gate of Sun Yat-sen University and the Guangzhou Bridge. There will be traditional dragon boats and sporting-standard dragon boats competing, alongside Created with the little ones in mind, Rythmo! is an interactive musical performance. a variety of colorful parades. Last year, the Pearl River saw a total of 130 dragon boat Each child and parent will receive drum sticks, whirly tubes or an African djembe teams and about 5,000 athletes, with teams from around the world contending for drum and will be led by talented musicians to create something extraordinary. Enjoy the championship against squads from all over Guangdong. So come on out and this collaborative and creative afternoon of family-friendly percussive play. cheer for the home team: the Guangzhou Dragons! Sat Jun 23, 11am/2.30pm; RMB150-700. Zhengjia Theatre, 5/F, Grandview Mall, Sat Jun 23, 8am; free. North Gate of Sun Yat-sen University, Binjiang Dong Lu, 228 Tianhe Lu, Tianhe District 天河区天河路228号正佳广场5楼正佳剧院 (damai. Haizhu District 海珠区滨江东路中山大学北门 cn)

68 | GZ | JUNE 2018 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM HONG KONG & MACAU CALENDAR

HK MO JUN 9 Swiss Style Now, 10am-9pm; free. JUN 8-10 JUN 26-JUL 2 Tap Seac Gallery FRI-SUN SAT Showcasing a total of 250 items ex- DAILY hibiting iterations of Swiss design from different generations selected by three Swiss curators, this exhibition is made up of both classic and contemporary specimens of layout, print arrangement and graphic design at their most creative. Exhibits include posters and book covers, among many other graphic designs. It’s an event that design- Air Supply, 8pm; MOP380-1,080. The savvy visitors won’t want to miss it! Venetian Theatre (macauticket.com) Catch Me If You Can, 3.30, 7.30 & Three-time Grammy award winners 8pm; HK$395, HK$250 restricted H2 Live Music Festival, 6pm; free en- Air Supply boast nearly 30 years view. The Hong Kong Academy for try. The Wanch (www.thewanch.hk) of musical experience. The band JUN 29-30 Performing Arts (www.hkticketing. It’s time for another week of excel- consists of singer-songwriter and FRI-SAT com/events/WCCATCH0618) lent free gigs and great music from guitarist Graham Russell and lead America loves a con artist (obvi- bands from across Hong Kong’s vocalist Russell Hitchcock and has ously) and maybe no one did it broad indie spectrum. Whether sold more than 100 million albums better than Frank Abagnale Jr, you're into acoustic acts, elec- worldwide. This month, at the portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in tronica or popular covers, there’s Venetian Theatre, Air Supply will the film of the same name. Frank’s sure to be something you’ll like be performing some of their best- adventure saw him scamming his from the mad assortment of bands loved tracks, such as 'Unchained way to the high life, passing off assembled for your beer-fueled Melody.' Don't miss out! USD2 million in bad checks while entertainment. impersonating a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer… and all before he JUN 16-18 turned 21. This rollicking, Tony- JUN 28-30 SAT-MON nominated musical is filled with THU-SAT enough stranger-than-fiction plot Celine Dion, 8pm; MOP480-2,680. twists and energetic dance num- Cotai Arena (macauticket.com) bers to steal your heart away. Armed with a repertoire of her biggest hits alongside timeless clas- JUN 22-24 sics by artists from various generations, global pop sensation Celine FRI-SUN Dion is staging two performances in Macau this month. Having won Macau International Dragon Boat multiple awards, including two Races 2018, time TBD; free. Nam Van Oscars and five Grammys, the Lake Nautical Center (www.maca- Canadian singer still remains ac- udragonboat.com) tive onstage, bringing her love This year’s Macau International tunes, such as the powerful ‘My Dragon Boat Races will see teams Heart Will Go On,’ to audiences the from Japan, the US, the Philippines, world over. Akram Khan's Giselle by English China, Thailand, Singapore, Korea National Ballet, 7.45pm & 2.45pm; and Australia compete for aquatic JUN 30-JUL 31 HK$200-880. Hong Kong Cultural glory on the waters of Nam Van Centre, Grand Theatre (ticket. Lake. The Macau races have gone a SAT-SUN urbtix.hk/internet/en_US/eventDe- long way in promoting the thrilling tail/35178) pastime of dragon boating from a Breaking with nearly a century quaint tradition to a grand-scale Dragon Boat Carnival, times vary; of faithful reiteration, choreog- sporting event attracting athletes free entry.Central Harbourfront rapher Akram Khan and com- from around the world. The first (www.discoverhongkong.com) poser Vincenzo Lamagna transform two days will see local teams com- Enjoy the long weekend watch- Adolphe Adam’s eerie and roman- pete in the 200- and 500-meter ing thousands of the world’s top tic ballet into a supremely ominous races, while international teams dragon boat athletes battle it out new masterpiece. Stunning cos- will compete on the third and final The Rite of Spring, 8pm; MOP150. in beautiful Victoria Harbour. The tumes and set design by Academy- day. Old Court Building (macauticket. old folk tradition has exploded Award winner Tim Yip add stun- com) into one of the busiest times on ning details to this gothic tragedy This is as much a dance perfor- the waterfront, with families and of love and betrayal, ghosts and mance as it is a battle between the friends enjoying water games – ghastly consequence. UNTIL JUN 17 physical and the spiritual. Exploring and plenty of beer – as a fleet of the birth and function of music at food trucks provide an astounding its most symbolic, The Rite of Spring array of local and international has been very well received by crit- bites. ics and nominated for the Hong Kong Dance Awards in 2016.

WWW.THATSMAGS.COM | JUNE 2018 | GZ | 69 HOTEL NEWS NEWS

10th Anniversary of Grand Hyatt Guangzhou Plateno Group Snatches Nearly RMB30 Million in HFE April 20 marked the 10-year anniversary of successful operations for Grand May 16 saw the 5th Hotel Franchise Expo (HFE) held at the China Import and Hyatt Guangzhou, where more than 200 attendees from a variety of fields, Export Fair Complex, during which Plateno Group showcased their broad port- including media, chambers of commerce and the diplomatic corps, were gath- folio of brands. The sum of contracts Plateno Group achieved on the first day ered to celebrate. As one of the first international, five-star hotels erected in of the fair amounted to RMB20.97 million. Zhujiang New Town, Grand Hyatt Guangzhou has stood witness to the remark- able rise of the city’s CBD.

Jimmy Sung Appointed as General Shao Yong Appointed as General Manager of InterContinental Zhuhai Manager of Sofitel Foshan Intercontinental Zhuhai has an- Mr. Shao Yong was appointed as nounced the appointment of Jimmy General Manager of Sofitel Foshan. Sung as General Manager. Sung, Shao’s management style is one who has a wealth of hands-on ex- of excellence and insights borne PROMOTIONS perience earned through a career in from his more than two decades of the hospitality industry that spans experience in hospitality manage- over 30 years, previously worked ment. Shao began his career in 1993 Head Over Heels at Mandarin Oriental, Guangzhou at Hainan’s Intercontinental Sanya upon graduation with a hospitality Taikoo Hui is partnering with The Victoria and Albert Museum in London Haitang Bay Resort in Hainan. management degree from Macau (one of the world’s largest museums of decorative arts and design) to host Polytechnic Institute and has held the museum’s upcoming Shoes: Pleasure and Pain Asia exhibition in southern positions in many frontline depart- China. To mark the occasion Mandarin Oriental, Guangzhou is offering an ments such as F&B, room service and exciting Head Over Heels Suite Experience room package (from RMB4,500 plus sales. 16.6 percent), which includes a one-night stay in a Club Executive Suite with Oriental Club privileges, a 75-minute foot therapy treatment at The Spa for two persons, a stylish ‘fashion high tea’ set for two persons at The Taikoo Lounge, complimentary leather shoe polishing service and a guided tour of the Shoes: Pleasure and Pain at TaiKoo Hui. Mandarin Oriental, Guangzhou, 389 Tianhe Lu, Tianhe District 天河区天河路 389号广州文华东方酒店 (mandarinoriental.com, 3808 8898)

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Sofitel Macau At Ponte 16 Celebrates A Decade of Wonder With A Triple ‘Merci’ Campaign of Fabulous Packages, Offers and Prizes Located at the Historic Centre of Macau, a designated UNESCO World Heritage site, Sofitel Macau At Ponte 16 not only embraces Macanese culture and traditions, but also incorporates innovative elements and the concept of French art de vivre to offer its patrons and guests a luxurious hotel experience. For its 10th anniversary, the hotel is to reward its patrons with amazing room packages, special offers and gifts, which will span from June to July. Hotel venues such as Mistral Restaurant, Le Chinois Cantonese Restaurant, Privé French Restaurant, RendezVous Lobby Bar, So SPA and Banquet will offer special dinner sets, buffets, afternoon teas, spa treatments, among other deals. Follow the hotel’s official WeChat -ac count (ID: sofitel_macau) or visit accorhotels. com for more information. Rua do Visconde Paco de Arcos, Macau 澳门巴素打尔古街 (00853-8861 0016)

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Portos has crafted a series of appetizing Mall, No.63 Linhe Zhong Road, Tianhe Dis- dishes for this winter. trict, Guangzhou, China (Across the street FOOD & DRINK Shop 401, 4/F, GTLand Winter Plaza, Zhuji- from IKEA) (3809 6330) ang Xincheng, Tianhe District 天河区珠江新天河区林和中路 63 号东方宝泰购物广场首层（宜 HEALTH 城高德置地冬广场4楼401室 (8398 0860) 家家居对面） 1920 Restaurant 1) 4/F, 1 Jianshe Liu Malu, All Smile - Dr. Lu Int'l Dental Clinic Rm Yuexiu District; 2) Shops 67, 69, 72 & 76, Slow Life An organic, health-conscious 603-604, 6/F, Metro Plaza, 183 Tianhe Bei Lu The Canton Place, Qingfeng Jie, Zhujiang Buongiorno 1) 3/F, Yi An Plaza, 33 Jianshe Western restaurant that excels in Spanish (24-hour hotline: 8755 3380). Mon-Sat 9am- Xincheng, Tianhe District (8388 1142); Shop Liu Malu, Yuexiu District (8363 3587); 2) A7, cuisine, Slow Life aims to be a place where MW01-03, 05, Central Zone, Mall of the 6pm (other times by appointment) Xinshijie Haoyuan Diyi Ju, 168 Dongcheng guests can take a break from their busy World, 89 Huacheng Dadao, Tianhe District 大都会牙科，天河北路183号大都会广场六楼 Nan Lu, Dongguan (0769 2339 6499) schedules to visit with friends and fam- (8709 6033) 603-604 邦奴意大利餐厅 1) 越秀区建设六马路宜安广场3楼; ily over a feast of delicious fusion dishes. 1920 咖啡厅 1) 建设六马路一号前幢 4 楼 ; 2) 2) 东莞市东城南路 168 号新世界豪圆第一居 A7 号天河区珠江新城清风街 48 号广粤天地 67, 69, Shop 107, 1/F, Gaozhi Dasha, 120 Huangpu Bellaire Medical Center Rm 302D, Fuli 72, 76 号铺 ; 3) 天河区花城大道 89 号花城汇 Dadao Xi, Tianhe District Park, 28 Machang Lu (3891 0511/ 24-hr MW01-03, 05 商铺 Element Fresh 1) Shop L302, TaiKoo 天河区黄埔大道西120号高志大厦首层107铺 (3788 152 1881 8990), Bellaireclinic.com Hui, 383 Tianhe Lu, Tianhe District (3808 7173, 3788 7172) 贝利尔诊所，天河区珠江新城马场路富力公园28 Aroma Bistro Shop 117, 1/F, Voka Street, 8506); 2) G/F, 42 Qingfeng Jie, Zhujiang 商业区302D 460 Tianhe Bei Lu, Tianhe District (185 Xincheng, Tianhe District (3828 8482) Shami House 2/F, Zhao Qing Da Sha, 304 0200 1416) Huanshi Zhong Lu, Yuexiu District (8355 天河区天河北路460号沃凯街首层新元素 , 1) 天河区天河路 383 号太古汇广场 L302 Deron Dental 3905-3909/F, Tianying Plaza 117铺 3012 / 8355 3091) East Tower, No.222 Xingming Lu, Tianhe 店 ; 2) 天河区珠江新城清风街 42 号首层莎米屋 , 越秀区环市中路 304号肇庆大厦 2 楼 (3886 4821,www.kaiyiyk.com) Happy Monk 1) Back of Yi’an Plaza, 德隆齿科诊所，广州市天河区兴民路 222 号天盈广 Jianshe Wu Malu, Yuexiu District (8376 场东塔 39 楼 3905-3909 5597) ; 2) No. 109, 7Xingsheng Lu, Zhujiang Dr. Sherily Xiao Master of Medicine. 20 Xincheng, Tianhe District (3877 8679); 3) years TCM & Acupuncture & Massage & Outdoor Plaza, Happy Valley Mall, 36 Mach- Physiotherapy Experience.Only for appoint- ang Lu, Tianhe District (3832 5317) 1) 越秀区建设五马路宜安广场后门 ; 2) 天河区珠江 ment. Fu Lai Garden Shui Yin Zhi Jie Shui 新城兴盛路 7 号 109 号铺 ; 3) 天河区珠江新城马场 Yin Road Yue Xiu District Guang Zhou. 路 36 号太阳新天地户外广场（Tel: 137 1052 6617. E-mail: xiaoshuilan@ hotmail.com. L5, Zoo station, C exit) Hooley’s Irish Pub and Restaurant 1)101, 8 广州市越秀区水阴路水阴直街福莱花园 Xingsheng Lu, Zhujiang Xincheng, Tianhe District (3886 2675); 2)Section 2, Yijia Yuan, Eur Am Medical & Dental Center 1/F, 7 Xingzhongdao, Zhongshan North Tower, Ocean Pearl Bldg, 19 Huali 1)爱尔兰西餐酒吧, 天河区珠江新城兴盛路8号101; Lu, Zhujiang Xincheng (3758 5328, 24- 2) 中山市兴中道7号颐嘉苑2卡 hr urgent care: 137 1041 3347, www. eurammedicalcenter.com) 广州康辰医疗 , 珠江新城华利路 19 号远洋明珠大厦 In·Side·Out By Threedrops 3/F, 10 Xi- 北座首层 etianli, Lingnan Tiandi, Chancheng District, Bravo Shop 114-115, 6 Huajiu Lu, Zhuji- Summer House Directly behind the Meetings: Foshan (0757-8203 1400, 189 885 25470) Guangzhou Narcotics Anonymous ang Xincheng, Tianhe District 天河区珠江 Marriage House, Xietian Li, Lingnan Tiandi, Monday 6.30pm and Friday 7pm. (For help: 佛山市禅城区岭南天地协天里10号3楼T Chancheng District, Foshan (133 9223 新城华就路6号114-115铺 188 9857 0042 (French, Chinese & English), 6374, www.summerhouse.com.cn) 佛山市 Shop 112, 9 Xing- 133 3287 0750 (Persian), 185 8876 4470 (Eng- The Brew Sports Bar & Grill 1) Unit M9 Restaurant Lounge 禅城区岭南天地协天里（嫁娶屋正后面）粤天地 sheng Lu, Zhujiang Xincheng, Tianhe District 112-116号铺 lish), www.nachina.com) 9-11, Huanan Country Garden, Panyu (3802 0171) Dadao (across the road from Chime- Sultan Restaurant Turkish BBQ H&H Dental Center 1/F, Mingmen Build- long Theme Park), Panyu District (3482 1) 1-3/F, 367 Huanshi Dong Lu, between ing, 4 Huacheng Dadao, Zhujiang Xincheng, 0401); 2) West Section, Bao Lin Yuan, McCawley’s Bar & Grill Shop 101, 16 Baiyun Hotel and Friendship Store, Yuexiu Tianhe District (3808 0700, 3808 0729; Huaxun Jie, Zhujiang Xincheng, Tianhe Huacheng Dadao, Zhujiang Xincheng, District (8349 4170, 8349 4171); 2) Shop 24-hour hotline: 139 2516 2826; E-mail: hnh- District (3408 9549); 3) Shop 11-13, Tianhe District (3801 7000) 102 & 114, Zhonghai Jinghui Huating, 31 [email protected]) Yuhai Food Street, 1 Jianshe Liu Malu, 天河区珠江新城花城大道 16 号 101 铺 Xingsheng Lu, Zhujiang Xincheng, TianHe H&H 牙科中心（嘉茜医疗门诊 ), 天河区珠江新城花 Yuexiu District (8382 8299) H District(3801 5002) 1)苏坦土耳其烧烤餐厅, 越城大道 4 号名门大厦正门首层 1) 番禺区番禺大道华南碧桂园碧华商业2街9-11 秀区环市东路367号1-3楼(白云宾馆与友谊商店夹号; 2) 天河区珠江新城华讯街保林苑西区加拿大布 Oggi Pizzeria 1) Shop 119, 8 Xingsheng Lu, 位处); 2)广州市天河区珠江新城兴盛路31号中海璟 iBorn Clinic Rm 2202-2203, Qiaoxin Kin- 鲁咖啡馆, 近发展中心; 3) 越秀区建设六马路誉海食 Tianhe District (3805 1282); 4) 1 Tianlun 晖华庭二期商铺102 & 114 gold Century, 62 Jinsui Lu, Tianhe District ( 街11-13号铺 Garden, Jianshe 4 Lu,Yuexiu District (8356 3736 2020/ 24-hr 3736 2110) 1196) www.oggirestaurant.com The Tavern Sports Bar Traditional Eng- 爱博恩综合门诊天河区珠江新城金穗路侨鑫金融 The Eating Table With seats for more than 卡布里西餐厅 1) 天河区兴盛路 8 号 119 铺 ; 2) 越秀 lish style bar that fosters a cosy intimate 中心2202-2203 200 diners to explore gastronomy at a less 区建设四马路天伦花园首层 atmosphere. Both Taverns offer an exten- No.6 frenetic pace, The Eating Table's warm, sive menu of Western favorites and dif- iBorn Women’s & Children's Hospital alluring design enlivens the senses. The Longkou Dong Lu, Tianhe District (2811 ferent theme nights throughout the whole 6375/185 2018 8335) owner, who spent years in Melbourne, has Paulaner Bräuhaus L307, 3/F, TaiKoo Hui, week. 1) Poly 108, 6 Huajiu Lu, Zhujiang ensured that the food delivers to both local 广州爱博恩妇产医院 , 天河区龙口东路 6 号 383 Tianhe Lu, Tianhe District (2808 6333) Xincheng, Tianhe District (8550 3038); 2) and foreign palates. Enjoy a gratifying meal, 宝莱纳 , 天河区天河路 383 号太古汇广场 L307 with a menu that boasts a wide range of On the right side of the Huanan Country Garden, Yingbin Lu, Panyu District (3482 Sing Health Medical appetizers, soups, pastas and both meaty 2 Xian Cun Rd, Zhu Jiang New City, Tian He and marine-filled mains. On the occasion of Rebel Rebel 42 Tiyu Dong Lu, Tianhe Dis- 4882, www.tavernchina.com) 致盛 1) 天河区珠江新城华就路 6 号保利 108 公馆 ; District, Guangzhou, Mon-Fri 9am-7pm, Sat- The Eating Table's 2-year anniversary this trict (8520 1579) 天河区体育东路42号 2) 番禺区迎宾路华南碧桂园大门右侧 Sun 9am-3pm, Tel:3739 2500 Open Every Day past October, Michelin-starred chef Michel 广州新宁门诊，天河区珠江新城冼村路 2 号 Ricci Creative Eats Shop 015B, G/F, Popark

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Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo 5.22~6.21 6.22~7.22 7.23~8.23 8.24~9.23

Romance is in the air and after Reach for the (smog-obscured) Drama ensues after your Take a summer class but learn last month’s home renovations, stars, climb every mountain significant other accuses you of something “cultural” like how to it’s time to invite that liangzai (in Qingyuan) and follow your not having any Chinese friends make hand-pulled noodles. Never you’ve been seeing round to your heart's desire (as long as it’s not (your ayi doesn’t count). Chat mind that you suck at cooking place. Remember to stash your someone you met at Oxygen) . up random locals on the street and only excel at eating – you are copies of That’s PRD, though, so That’s when all your dreams will but give up after failing to totally on your way to becoming he doesn’t catch you following come true. Delete all late-'90s understand a single word of their the next Fuschia Dunlop. horoscopes. pop from your playlist. heavy accent.

Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn 9.24~10.23 10.24~11.22 11.23~12.21 12.22~1.20

Existential dread sets in – consider With the ‘no waste’ movement Depression sets in after your Get in shape by joining your local doing ‘good’ by quitting your taking off, it’s time to ditch the realize that all your friends running club in Tianhe Park (try corporate job in Zhujiang New waimai and fill up that reusable want to meet in Social & Co. for Sunshine Bay or Feelmore) – but Town and joining an NGO, but then bag with organic vegetables. brunch now, and with their kids, rein in that competitive streak; remember that you live in China. Just kidding – they’re probably instead of Saizeriya, like the everyone knows you’re a goat, that Think about living a nihilistic life not organic, according to recent good old days. Time to grow up, doesn’t mean you always have to instead, but then remember that news. But hey, at least you tried. Saggy? Never. be GOAT. you live in China.

Aquarius Pisces Aries Taurus 1.21~2.19 2.20~3.20 3.21~4.20 4.21~5.21

This month is all about Is the constant construction It is time to stage an intervention You are feeling surprisingly experimentation. Go to one of outside your fifth-floor walk-up with your live-streaming chill this month. Good for you those EDM pool parties happening getting you down? Just remember wannabe wanghong roommate – it’ll come in handy when your out in Panyu. Try stinky tofu or that the alternative is moving – because ain’t nobody got time landlord kicks you out after baijiu – or both! Swipe right to into a nice modern apartment for being woken up by their off- receiving one-too-many noise someone whose profile pic is of in Zhujiang, which, on second tune singing at 3am. Do 10 push- complaints from your Cantonese him or her holding a big fish. thoughts, actually sounds kinda ups a day to prepare for the aunty neighbors. Oops. nice. Start saving now. confrontation.

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