Welcome Stanton!! Looking forward to your content, especially those about the environment and alternative education. Hope your future posts including some book recommendations :)

Thanks howardblott! Junk food and alcohol sounds like a rich cultural in its own right :) but yes I think it takes much care to preserve these traditions, and I'm not sure if it will survive through the

Thank you for the honor AJ! Appreciate the great curation work you are doing

This is a great tip, thank you! Quick question: How does a GIF affect the thumbnail for the post? Where does the thumbnail come from for this post?

Thanks for reading and I love the stories you're sharing as well!

Wow I've been living in China for 4 years and have never heard of this before. Thanks for sharing info on these great places :)

Thank you for your detailed research, this is such an educational post! I think the (Michael) Jackson family is another well-documented music family, and the Korean-born Americans the Kim Sisters are another

Yes it really has been! I recommend visiting the Lao Xi Men (old west gate) neighborhood that I wrote a bit about last week. The neighborhood is in downtown Shanghai and has been scheduled for demolition

Dsound integration looks to work well! Is there any embedding functionality available? I like that soundcloud can be streamed directly from the steemit post. There's a podcast called "Korean Slang

Yeah the total tea market (and cheap bubble milk tea) is $9.5billion USD which is still ten times larger than its coffee market. Starbucks is not going anywhere, but I do think the growth will slow; much

Yes ever since their first store opened here in 1999, they have had an incredible business strategy; they have 2,600 stores already and are now opening 12 stores a week to reach 5,000 by 2021. There was

When you write "there is no such thing as a social privilege," I interpret this as "there are no social groups that enjoy advantages merely because of their belonging to that social group."

Very cool!! I love the idea of adding a QR code for the audio tour. One capability of QR codes is to integrate them with Google Analytics, which would let you track how many people are visiting the park;

Thanks @arcange for your support! Excited to continue producing bilingual/multicultural content for the community :)

Yes, that's a really good point! I didn't discuss the cultural element as much, but I think it's certainly embedded in how we evaluate a good restaurant. The Michelin Guide came to mainland China for the

It's a really special dish! I forgot to mention above: in order to get the soup inside, you take the gelatinous ingredients (pig/chicken bones, skin, feet), cooking it into a stock, then chilling it to

During my last trip to NYC, I was fascinated to see how vast the gap was between gentrified food and the local traditions they came from. Jianbing is a Chinese-style savory crepe, ubiquitous in Beijing

Right, there is an inherent contradiction in taking the "authentic" and leveraging it to drive expansion beyond the local. The trend in China is to invest/acquire foreign brands, with billions

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Very cool way to aggregate content, thank you!