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New restaurant: Pizza Express

The MixC’s Pizza Express has the elements of a quintessential pizza parlor: open kitchen, pizzaiolos tossing dough overhead and generous portions, but is it actually good? Answer:...

by Christine Gilbert, 09 February 2015

New bar: Laffa

Blessing, enjoyment, hope, happiness – the slang term ‘laffa’ means all these things and more in Russia. In Shenzhen, though, the phrase has only one meaning: the bar opened by...

by Christine Gilbert, 04 February 2015

Six of the best: Late-night cake

When you get the midnight munchies, grab a sweet treat at these spots.

by Christine Gilbert, 04 February 2015

On the Grill: Jackey Guan

Kiwi Pizza owner's journey from China to hell and back again.

by Christine Gilbert, 21 January 2015

Six of the best: Breakfasts

Places to chow down on the most important meal of the day.

by Christine Gilbert, 19 January 2015

Spa: I Spa

I Spa at the Hilton Shenzhen Shekou Nanhai has a secret garden. Not the kind of fixer-upper that the heroine of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic kids’ novel had to deal with, but...

by Christine Gilbert, 14 January 2015

Cool shop: Art & Soul Paint Your Own Pottery Studio

This month’s cool shop doesn’t have some too-cool-to-comprehend name. Art & Soul Paint Your Own Pottery Studio, as its moniker suggests, lets people decorate their own ceramics....

by Christine Gilbert, 12 January 2015

Home cooking: Homemade cheesecake

While we here at That’s PRD can’t send a cheesecake to each of our readers, we do hope you’ll make the recipe below and enjoy the rest of your winter season with a slice while...

by Christine Gilbert, 12 January 2015