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Guangzhou:

By Andrew Zimmern on April 15, 2008 2:23 PM | Permalink | 29 Comments

Few people in the world have a more passionate relationship with food than the Chinese. And thanks to the large-scale emigration of Chinese from the southern province of Guangdong to elsewhere in the world, Cantonese is by far China's best-known cuisine. Cantonese food originates from Guangzhou, the city that used to be called Canton. Today, Guangzhou's food culture is known as one of the cuisines that worships unusual foods in China. In fact, a popular saying describes Cantonese food like this: "Anything that walks, swims, crawls, or flies is edible."

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Beijing Baby

By Andrew Zimmern on March 3, 2008 12:26 PM | Permalink | 64 Comments

I love China ... the crowds, the smog, the food, the scenesters, the temples, the Forbidden City, the shopping, the growth, the confusion, the serenity, the people ... I love China.
Ten years ago, check that, even 5 years ago on my second visit there, I only saw the tourists China, but mostly that was because that's all there was to see. Not that there was only a tourists China that was extant, but because the real China was hard to access in Beijing. Today, with an explosively developed middle class, there are stores and hotels, restaurants and nightclubs, young scenesters in the parks and business men on lunch breaks. Beijing is a happening baby.

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