08Jul

The biggest Chinese restaurant in the world

posted by Chris Heathcote

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A programme about the largest Chinese restaurant in the world might sound esoteric - only for readers of Worldwide Restaurant Organisation Monthly. However, it’s a great little programme illustrating modern China, people’s thoughts, hopes, and somewhat harsh realities. The restaurant caters for births, birthdays, weddings, so you get to see the similarities and differences in [...]

19May

Wild China: Shangri-La

posted by Emma Payne

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You’d think after decades of nature programmes they’d have run out of weird creatures to show us, but this episode about Yunnan, a remote forest in southwest China, is full of jaw-dropping moments - from bats the size of bumblebees living in a bamboo stem, to villagers tying feathers to hornets, to the unearthly song [...]