Threesday: Healthy eating for the sick souls in Shanghai
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In our ongoing Threesday feature, Shanghaiist takes the time to count out three of well... whatever catches their fancy that week. This week: Places to get that warm bowl of healthy something now that flu season is upon us. Blame it on the cold weather snap, but Shanghaiist has been sick as a dog. When we’re hacking up a lung, we crave clean, msg and oil-free food…no easy task
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Watch: Wet market tofu auntie can also be a soccer star!
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Shaolin monks aren't the only unlikely football fans in China - this tofu seller at a wet market in Jiangsu Province (near Shanghai) showed an amazing amount of control tossing and kicking a bag of tofu. She could give Ronaldo a run for his money!
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Hotelist: Park Hyatt Shanghai
In Shanghaiist's monthly Hotelist feature, we take a sneak peek at the various hotels around town that have caught our fancy. This week, China's tallest hotel: Park Hyatt Shanghai at the SWFC. Park Hyatt Shanghai
Where: 100 Century Avenue, Pudong New Area 200120 世纪大道100号 邮政编码 200120
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China Censors Oscar Nominations
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The Chinese government is censoring news about the upcoming Oscars after China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, an HBO documentary about the children killed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, was nominated (Watch the movie below). From The Telegraph:The documentary follows several groups of parents as their grief turned into protest.“It was tofu construction,”
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Online Fury at Life of Luxury in Prisons
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Online photos of luxurious prisons have infuriated some netizens. From Southern China Morning Post:Mainland internet users are up in arms after pictures of a series of luxurious new prisons were posted online this week, a stark contrast to the shabbily built “tofu” schools that collapsed in last year’s Sichuan earthquake trapping more than 5,000 children.The [...]
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Chinese Professor Creates Microblog to End Child-Abduction and Forced Child Beggars
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Scholar Yu Jianrong launched a microblog site for people to post photos of child beggars, in an effort to raise awareness of the issue and even reunite parents with their kidnapped children. From the Ministry of Tofu blog: On January 25, 2011, Yu Jianrong, a famous human rights activist and sociologist, launched a Sina microblog [...]
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Video: CCTV passes off Top Gun clip as military footage
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Ministry of Tofu called our attention a few days ago to recent gaffe by the official Chinese media. On January 23, CCTV aired a special about military air force training, showing one clip supposedly of a J-20 stealth jet blowing up another aircraft with a missile. An astute netizen immediately pointed out similarities between the CCTV footage and that of a scene from Top Gun. WSJ Real Time
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