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...Against a flurry of winter red coats, hats and Burberry scarves, visitors queue up to have their photograph taken in front of the Tai Sheng Yuan restaurant....
...Wendy Morrison Design, Deirdre Dyson, Jan Kath and Amber Rankin all take an artistic as well as artisan approach to rug-making....
...He urged the Biden administration to fix it, suggesting that US trade representative Katherine Tai, who is attending Davos, should start by “saying sorry”....
...Several Democratic US lawmakers, including Earl Blumenauer, Rosa DeLauro, Jan Schakowsky, Bernie Sanders, Tammy Baldwin and Chuy García, have urged the Biden administration to support a temporary waiver...
...For a snack on the way back, duck into Chow’s cheerful eatery Little Bao, on Kingston Street opposite Victoria Park; don’t miss the Brussels sprouts....
...It was awarded a Michelin star in 2010 (Website; Directions) Din Tai Fung, a Taiwanese dim-sum joint, has been a fixture in the city for decades and is renowned globally for its xiao long bao, or steamed...
...I look down at the dumplings and greens I ordered from Din Tai Fung, a Taiwanese restaurant known for its xiao long bao (soup dumplings)....
...Key data and events MONDAY China; Ghana, rate decisions TUESDAY UK, labour market (Nov-Jan, Feb) Hungary, rate decision WEDNESDAY UK, CPI (Feb) Eurozone; France; Germany; Japan; UK; US, PMI surveys...
...On a trip to Din Tai Fung, the Taiwanese eatery famous for the most amazing xiao long bao (soup-filled dumplings), our family of five had to sit at two separate tables....
...Din Tai Fung and Noodles Plus approach the xiao long bao from diametrically different places....
...This has given rise to the phenomenal success of the Din Tai Fung restaurant chain that has given the world xiaolongbao, Chinese dumplings filled with soup — everywhere, it seems, except the UK....
...“It’s been a continued, phenomenal pace of growth,” says Gert-Jan van den Akker, head of agricultural supply chain at Cargill, the food commodities company....
...There beneath the assembled stars, to the gentle music perhaps of a Hawaiian combo somewhere, I lie on a chaise longue sipping that old essence of Polynesia, a Mai Tai (rum, lime juice, curaçao liqueur),...
...Little Bao (little-bao.myshopify.com); The Chairman (thechairmangroup.com); Ho Lee Fook holeefookhk.tumblr.com Disappointment: Great Yarmouth Friends had booked the hotels for a last-minute trip up the...
...Jan Dalley Jan Dalley has been arts editor of the Financial Times since 2004. She joined the FT in 1999 as literary editor....
...to attract blue-chips to list in UK * A looser grip for Beijing’s heavy hand | In ‘Markets Over Mao’, Nicholas Lardy assesses the rise of private business in China * Alibaba plans HK version of Yu’E Bao...
...Outside the Xing Bao Zhonghuan “senior living community” on a mild spring day in Shanghai recently, an old lady was riding a tricycle around the forecourt, and a group of spry elders were performing tai...
...From his office with sweeping views of Warsaw, Lee Tai-sik, chairman of the Korea Business Centre, which promotes South Korean trade and investment in Poland, has a clear perspective on the “new” Europe....
...of delicate, steamed xiao long bao....
...promenade around its rim, old men sit and gossip, or play cards and chess; young couples canoodle away from parents’ prying eyes, and fitness buffs take morning and evening constitutionals, or practise tai...
...His résumé includes eight years with Royal Tichelaar Makkum, where he developed the contemporary collections alongside Jan Tichelaar....
...Jan Morris is the author of more than 40 books, including most recently ‘Hav’ and ‘A Writer’s World’, a collection of her travel writing and reportage …………………………………………………………………………………………………………....
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