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Secret Agent Man
Ever since kids first started raiding wardrobes for dress-up costumes, there's been a market for fake mustaches. Whether your little ones are secret agents, cops or cowboys, a good set of whiskers will always come in handy.
Team Tseo
New parents David Tseo, director of marketing at Park Hyatt Beijing, and Samying Huie, partner at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, have recently relocated from bustling Shanghai. The family has been busy getting their 4-month-old Katelyn settled in, but they've already fallen in love with Beijing's cultural side. The English Pianist
Love, war, betrayal, glamour and the occasional lapse of kleptomania set against the backdrop of Hong Kong - The Piano Teacher is an epic first novel that isn't easy to put down. Author Janice Y.K. Lee transports readers to the bustling streets and high society life of mid-century Hong Kong. Claire, a newlywed piano teacher, arrives in Hong Kong in 1952 and blossoms in the exotic, sweltering locale while becoming entangled in a complicated love affair with her student's chauffeur, Will Truesdale, a handsome but damaged Briton. The novel alternates between their affair and Will's earlier whirlwind romance with Trudy, a striking Eurasian socialite, during the Japanese invasion of World War II 11 years earlier. Sophisticated Sauces: Sichuan-inspired pasta
On a recent trip to Chongqing, I had one of the best bowls of noodles I've had in my life. The restaurant, if it could be called that, was across the street from the White House nightclub - a place once notorious for its mobsters and their hangers-on. It was, as most winter days are in Chongqing, a foggy one. And cold. And rainy. The clouds descended about the city and soaked everything in a weighted dampness. The noodle joint was the size of three closets, and at the entrance sat a table full of bowls: soy sauce, garlic, ginger, green onions, sesame oil, vinegar, chilli oil, pork fat, salt, sugar, MSG, pepper and ground Sichuan pepper, as well as pots of rich, heavenly smelling meat sauce and chunks of beef. A cauldron bubbled away on the stove, beckoning as steam rose up in magical
puffs every time someone opened its lid.
Say Hello to Beijing's Smallest
Gianna Marie Ashford
American/Chinese. Born to Sabrina Chen and Jerry Ashford on Dec 1 at Amcare Women and Children's Hospital.
