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參考答案:Easy shopping
By Belle Zhao (That's Beijing)
Updated: 2006-12-04 10:32
Part store and part gallery, the Easy Shop artistically presents a mix of hip home decor lines and a delicate wool sweater collection.
The art-deco photos displayed on the white wall will make your eyes pop. Its selection is unique and includes a huge hand-knitted wool blanket (RMB 299), a set of earthy colored linen pillow cover and bed covers (RMB 299), pocket-sized notebooks with funky prints (RMB 19), and movie clapper boards (RMB 59).
Pullover sweaters are available in either black or grey, available both for men and women.
Easy Shop
Location 1: B/1F, Zhongguancun Shopping Mall, Haidian District
Tel: 010-***********
Location 2: A121 Fulllink Plaza, Chaowai Dajie, Chaoyang District
Tel: 010-***********
Bowling them over
In the West, porridge usually means boiled oatmeal, but the corresponding "zhou" in China mostly refers to rice congee. The role of congee in a Chinese meal is similar to that of soup in the West. But in China it is eaten both at breakfast and dinner; it is served with steamed bread, and in the morning, pickles accompany it.
Rice porridge is widely considered a healthy food due to its nutritious ingredients. A classic variation from South China is rice porridge with preserved egg and pork. In North China, people eat "eight treasure" porridge on December 8 of lunar calendar. This contains eight ingredients, such as red bean, Chinese jujube, chestnuts and dried lotus seeds.
Other popular porridge ingredients include sweet potatoes, dried lily bulbs, pumpkin, chestnuts, peanuts, fish fillet, pork liver and yams, which the Chinese believe benefit the liver and kidneys. Any vegetable or nutritious food can be put into porridge.
Rice porridge used to be too ordinary to put on a restaurant menu, unless the establishment was very cheap. But in recent years, congee-themed restaurants have emerged in great numbers. Hong Zhuang Yuan, Bai Zhou Xiang, and Jia He Yi Pin are the biggest porridge chain restaurants in Beijing. These congee-based snack restaurants offer not just a variety of rice porridge, but also dim sum, cold dishes, hot dishes, as well as drinks.
Hong Zhuang Yuan, Yansha branch
This is one of several best branches of this porridge chain restaurant. The brand name has developed 26 outlets to become the biggest porridge chain in town. Most chain restaurants are alike: compact seating space, a lot of people during meal times, and a simple menu.
But Hong Zhuang Yuan has developed a more extensive menu and good service. The menu offers more than 50 different kinds of porridge, cold and hot dishes, dim sum, and drinks. The menu has colour photos and is in both Chinese and English.
Ordering is easy and service is fast.
Try staples like vegetable rice porridge, rice porridge with preserved egg and pork slices, rice and barley porridge with yam and Chinese jujube. A specialty is Zhuang Yuan Zhou ( No 1 scholar rice porridge), which is named after the restaurant. The sweet porridge contains peanuts and chestnuts. It is done on a bigger size and called Zhuang Yuan Yi Pin Zhou (first-class, No 1 scholar), in a light salty rice porridge boiled with a variety of nuts, served in a pot, enough for three people.
Fried assorted vegetables and Zhuang Yuan Hamburger with duck meat are two fried hot dishes worth ordering. Sesame cakes with sugar are also tasty.
One person can get a good meal for 20-30 yuan, or less. An ordinary bowl of porridge costs 6 yuan.
The Yansha branch is relatively cleaner and tidier.
24 hours. 1/F Longbao Dasha, 36 Maizidian Jie, Chaoyang District. 6506-3858. 361.
Bai Zhou Xiang East Plaza branch
Like many other porridge restaurants, this place is packed during meal times. Because there are so many customers, sometimes service is a little slack, and it can be difficult to get your food quickly. The place does not have an English menu, but it does have colour photos.
Compared to Hong Zhuang Yuan, Bai Zhou Xiang offers more southern-style porridges, and a long list of South Chinese dim sum. Eat the rice porridge with fish fillet, spinach porridge, or rice porridge with Cantonese barbeque pork . Sweet porridges like hawthorn fruit with Chinese wolfberry fruits, yam with lotus seed, sweet potato, or pumpkin with Chinese wolfberry fruit are nice treats.
Some of the most popular dim sum includes fried dumplings, crispy cakes with barbeque pork stuffing, shrimp dumplings, crispy cakes with turnip slices, and steamed dumplings with rice and pork stuffing. Steamed baozi, steamed dumplings with stuffing, is another speciality here.
Average spending is from 20-30 yuan. 24 hours. 1/F A Block, East Plaza, 9 Dongzhong Jie, Dongcheng District. 6418-5681
TV hostess gives first lecture as guest professor
By Jessie Tao (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2006-12-08 15:25
Famous central China Hunan Satellite TV singer and presenter Li Xiang is in the headlines again, this time, on the podium at a normal university as a guest professor.
,,Li Xiang, Sichuan Normal University
Li Xiang, a famous central China Hunan Satellite TV singer and presenter, gives a lecture in Sichuan Normal University in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Proince Wedneday, December 7,2006. [Huaxi City Daily ]
Li , who just got divorced from her bigwig husband Li Houlin, was officially retained as a guest professor at the Cinema-Television School of southwest China's Sichuan Normal University after giving an hour-long lecture, reported the Chengdu-based Huaxi City Daily on Wednesday.
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Though an experienced presenter at many high-profile events, Li appeared nervous during her maiden university lecture. She mispronounced a word, and kept apologizing throughout the speech, according to the paper.
"I am really nervous, and my heart is beating fast. I have never been a teacher before. I am here just to share my experiences and feelings, hoping it might help you somehow. So please call me Xiang Xiang or Sister Xiang instead of teacher," Li was quoted by the paper as saying.
"Though still in her twenties, Li has been a presenter for ten years, and has accumulated rich experience through hosting the 'Joy Camp' and 'Super Girls', both front-running entertainment programs in China, and up to a thousand galas. Considering her unique style and specialty in presenting and broadcasting, we think it is appropriate that we invited her to be a guest professor," said Luo Gonghe, president of the Cinema-Television School, addressing doubts that the students would not think Li competent for the job.
Among the ten students who were interviewed on the spot, five were confident of Li's qualification, citing her work experience and social influence as factors, while some still had reservations.
"The university authorities and students have different ideas, so it might be better if we didn't say anything." a student surnamed Wang said.
"As long as Li does a good job, we can accept her. I hope it is not all about hype and self-promotion," said an unidentified student.
Li was offered similar positions two years ago at several institutions, but this is the first time she has accepted the offer.
According to Luo, Li can be paid 800 to 1500 yuan (US$100 to - US$187) for every lecture she gives to 600 students, but she did the first for free. He would not say if Li would charge for future lectures.
"Ten years into my career, I have a lot to share, my successes, my failures, and my precious experience. I hope to exchange ideas with the students and listen to their opinions." Li told the paper.
"I know there are doubts and objections, and I understand them but will not pay any attention. I just want to share and be myself," she said.
On the Internet, some netizens questioned Li's qualifications while others called for tolerance and open-mindedness when it comes to education.
Li will give one lecture for every semester, or two for a school year, Luo said.
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