Monday, December 14, 2015 6:00pm 7:00pm Food writer, critic and presenter Tom Parker-Bowles will host fellow critic Giles Coren and restaurateur Alan Yau, the vision behind restaurants including Wagamama and Hakkasan, for an evening focused on Chinese food. Looking at 20 years of evolution, from chop suey and sweet and sour pork to the rise of […]
Photography: The Arch London 特邀作家：时尚顾问 Yvonne Fan 如今出出国旅一下游已成为国人的家常便饭，比如去欧洲过个周末喝个西式下午茶，又或是飞往伦敦就为了购购物，参加个时尚秀。说到伦敦， 它确实是很多人心目中最期待的旅行目的地。 亲们近期要去伦敦的话，那么我接下来分享的这家伦敦酒店的住宿体验，大家可以拿来当作参考。 说到出门在外，睡眠质量要保证，不然哪来的精力去游玩。 所以，对于我来说, 跨越了大半个地球去睡的, 一定必须是极好的！现推荐的是一家位于伦敦的出差/旅行的上好佳品—— The Arch London. 经本人亲测, 推荐指数, 5颗星！ 它在1,056家伦敦酒店中排名第6！ 在Trip Advisor的中文版上有1219条评价, 一致好评. 我对The Arch Hotel 的评价是：酒店的地理位置，绝佳！酒店房间，高雅又时尚却又不失温馨的感觉！酒店服务, 贴心到爆，被暖哭了！它家餐厅的食物，我只能说厨师，你真是对菜的每一个细节都太有要求了！ 这酒店坐落于伦敦的中心地段, 出门那叫一个方便！步行至Marble Arch地铁站仅需4分钟, 十分钟内即可走到海德公园,牛津街,邦德街等等. 观光购物,就是那么轻松地实现. 如果一定要用一个词来形容这个酒店的环境，我会选‘高大上’。酒店整体的装修启发于伦敦当地的艺术，酒店里的艺术作品量高，且风格奇特。它家对面是欧美流行天后麦当娜在伦敦的豪宅。比邻麦当娜，这样的氛围让住进去的我也觉得自己的逼格渐高。 这是我旅行这么多年，住过的最贴心的酒店之一。从预定酒店的那一刻起，就可以感受到酒店工作人员的热情和友善。这次我们有带小朋友出行，贴心的酒店工作人员还专门在房间里放置了可爱的婴儿专用床和宝宝洗澡的盆子。真是被他们无微不至的细节所打动，他们竟然还准备了一套婴儿用的洗浴用品和一套小浴袍！ 房间的床单专门选用了优质的亚细亚麻布，比起大多数酒店用的棉布床单来说更亲近皮肤，让我在异国也能感受到家的舒适。大气舒适的床，和房间一样大的浴室，三台高清电视，即使在泡澡时，也可以收看喜爱的电视节目。 还有，要说一下这家酒店自带的优质餐厅—— Hunter 486. 秉承酒店高大上的装修风格，餐厅的逼格也是杠杠的。这里有五星级的英式早餐，下午茶，自助，奢华自选晚餐。还有一个特别之处，餐厅里每个台和沙发/椅子被设计成自成一个比较有隐私的小空间，特别适合我这种对餐饮时的私人空间要求非常高的人。 对了，如果你想尝试一下最近流行的‘习主席访英点名套餐’——炸鱼薯条，这里也是有的(此处是一张笑哭的脸)。相信优质的用餐环境和纯正的英式美食，会为多姿多彩的旅行再添漂亮一笔。 The Arch London, 下次来伦敦，本宝宝还是要去睡你.
The New Chinese Art exhibition, by three of China’s leading contemporary artists, has moved to the Cambridge University after a three-day stint at Saatchi Gallery, London. The Chinese artists featured at the Saatchi Gallery, Guan Ce’s, Jin Feng and Shen Qibin, have each donated one of their artworks to Cambridge University as a token of […]
Written In Dust is a contemporary silent film: a tragedy set in Beijing, with live music accompaniment, a fusion of traditional Chinese and modern British, by classical Chinese musician Ling Peng and pianist/guitarist Andy Middleton. The film tells the tragic tale of three young Chinese rural migrants who come in search of the new life […]
Throughout a career spanning four decades, Anna May Wong (1905–1961) uncomfortably straddled two cultures. Born in California to second-generation Chinese American parents, she became interested in films at an early age. She started off working in silent films but was at first regularly cast in the stereotypical role of the long-suffering, submissive Oriental woman, from her […]
Raymond Yiu Portrait by Malcolm Crowthers As part of this year’s BBC Proms season, BBC Radio 3 has commissioned Symphony by contemporary composer Raymond Yiu. It will be performed by renowned counter-tenor Andrew Watts along with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. This five-movement meditation on memories, love and loss is set to texts close to Raymond’s […]
The Silk Road of Pop from smokesignalprojects on Vimeo. On 18th August Asia House is screening ‘The Silk Road of Pop’, one of the very few documentaries to come of Xinjiang Province in China. The film is a portrait of the explosive pop scene among the Uyghur community in Xinjiang. It was filmed during 2009 […]
By Choon Tan – Arts and Entertainment Editor Many great literary classics from China have been translated into English over the years but it may surprise you to know that the works of Shakespeare are increasingly popular in China. And now these special Chinese versions are coming to the UK. After a successful tour of […]
Founded in 1915 and established as one of the most prestigious schools in Hong Kong, St. Paul’s Co-educational College Primary School has long enjoyed a rich musical tradition. Following their acclaimed concert tours to Beijing, New York and Singapore in recent years, their talented students will be embarking on a performing tour to the United […]
Wang Jiajia and Miao Ruimin from Shenyang Normal University, China, on stage at Shakespeare’s Globe as part of the tenth Sam Wanamaker Festival, the largest showcase of young acting talent in the UK. They joined 38 students from top drama schools across the UK and two from the USA who presented scenes from Shakespeare and his contemporaries […]