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Christmas trees on Xiaohongshu are getting very local. Zhejiang stacks rice cakes. Hakka goes for bitter gourd and tofu. Wenzhou brings duck tongues. Guangdong builds theirs out of rice rolls.
It sounds ridiculous at first, until you realize how accurate it feels. Some of these trees are AI-made, but the food logic is very real.
So, what would your hometown’s Christmas tree be made of? 🎄
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In Kaifeng’s Wansui Mountain Wuxia City, there is a pavilion that looks traditional from far away, but up close you realize it is built from metal wire. Craftsmen shaped and wove the silver-toned threads to recreate Song-style architecture, from the curved eaves to the lattice windows and layered brackets.
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Mixue has been sending out surveys through WeChat, asking people about their morning routines, from soy milk and youtiao to coffee and sandwiches. Some users even spotted a new “Breakfast Series” in the mini-program, featuring five-red milk, five-black milk, corn milk, and coconut milk, all priced at 5 RMB.
According to local reports, the rollout is still in test phase, limited to cities like Dalian, Xi’an, Nanning, and Hangzhou. No wide launch yet — for now, it’s more like Mixue dipping a toe into the morning market.
It makes sense: breakfast has always been a fiercely competitive battleground. McDonald’s and KFC have morning menus locked in, Starbucks built a whole “coffee + bakery” morning routine, and Chinese tea chains have been experimenting for years. Heytea tried its “Inspiration Breakfast” back in 2019, Naixue launched combos in 2020, and GuMing has also tested coffee-plus-pastry sets.
So is Mixue’s next big move… becoming China’s most affordable breakfast stop?
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Found: A Taoist bar in Shanghai that feels like a side quest.
The concept: a low-key Taoist-inspired bar where drinks are named after the Bagua, and you can pick your cocktail either by intuition… or by shaking fortune sticks like you’re consulting your destiny for the night.
It’s part speakeasy, part ritual, part urban folktale — the kind of place where a casual drink suddenly feels like a side quest.
Would you let divination choose your drinks?
📍灵墟, Shanghai
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When Kelly Chan couldn’t find the flavors of home in Hong Kong, she decided to build one — literally.
Meet Rumah (@madebyrumah ), the Indonesian dessert brand that’s reimagining kueh lapis for a new generation. Co-founded by Kelly Chan and Mel Ng, Rumah blends authenticity with artistry, turning traditional Southeast Asian sweets into edible stories of migration, belonging, and identity.
Click the link in bio to read the full story on how two women are reshaping cultural identity, one slice of kueh at a time.
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UNESCO just crowned Quanzhou, Fujian the newest “Creative City of Gastronomy.” That makes seven Chinese cities with the title, and honestly, no one’s surprised.
This ancient port city has been quietly flexing its food game for over a thousand years. Jin-dynasty migrants brought northern flavors south, Song-era traders smuggled in techniques from Suzhou to Southeast Asia, and somehow everything fused into pure Minnan magic.
Wake up to peanut soup so creamy it feels illegal, or face-plant into a bowl of mian xian hu (noodle sludge loaded with whatever you want). Lunch and dinner? Ginger duck that punches, oyster omelettes that slap, run bing spring rolls ready for their close-up, and beef soup that hugs your soul.
Snacks are next-level chaos: stone flower jelly that cools you down in two seconds, four-fruit soup that tastes like summer, crispy yanpi fritters, and the infamous tu sun dong – sea worm jelly that looks cursed but hits like crack.
Who’s booking the next flight for oyster omelette therapy? ✈️
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You’ve heard of tanghulu. But have you tried milk skin tanghulu? 👀
This unlikely mash-up: Inner Mongolia’s creamy 奶皮子 (naipizi) wrapped around glossy candied fruit is officially China’s hottest snack. Think chewy, milky, crunchy, sweet.
At the heart of the craze is 奶皮子 (naipizi), a traditional Mongolian dairy product made by slowly simmering fresh milk until a golden “skin” forms on top. Once a symbol of pastoral life on the grasslands, it’s now being reimagined in the most unexpected ways.
Queues stretch five hours long. LELECHA turned it into a drink. Shanghai shops are charging ¥98 a stick. And the internet? Fully obsessed.
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What happens when POP MART takes over an abandoned village?
On an island off the coast of Zhejiang, a fishing village once known as Hou Tou Wan now sits completely reclaimed by nature. Locals left in 2002, and the village has since become a living monument to time.
This year, POP MART and Ctrip Travel brought Hirono’s quiet world to this forgotten place through a public art exhibition titled “After Time.”
Known for their narratives of solitude and healing, Hirono finds new meaning here — where human time has stopped, and nature has quietly taken over.
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This Halloween, we’re heading somewhere truly otherworldly, not haunted houses, but Haw Par Villa in Singapore(@hawparvilla.sg ).
Originally built in 1937 by the Aw brothers, creators of Tiger Balm, the park was meant to teach moral lessons through scenes from Chinese folklore, literature, and religion. Today, it remains one of the world’s strangest cultural landmarks: 1,000 statues and 150 dioramas depicting everything from Journey to the West to the Ten Courts of Hell.
In its prime during the 1970s and 80s, Haw Par Villa drew over a million visitors a year, its surreal sculptures and morality plays shaping generations of Singaporean childhood memories. After years of neglect and renovations, the park reopened in 2021, revitalized with new events, art exhibitions, and its most famous attraction — Hell’s Museum, an air-conditioned walkthrough exploring how different cultures understand death and the afterlife.
Equal parts eerie and educational, Haw Par Villa has become a heritage site that preserves one of Asia’s most visually fascinating mythologies.
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In southern China, rooftops don’t just shelter, they shine. ✨
剪瓷雕 (cut porcelain carving) is a traditional craft found across Fujian, Taiwan, and the Chaoshan region, where artisans transform fragments of broken porcelain into intricate 3D sculptures that decorate temples and ancestral halls.
The craft flourished during the Ming and Qing dynasties, when export bans left piles of unused Dehua porcelain. Locals began breaking the surplus ceramics into tiny pieces and reassembling them on rooftops to honor deities and celebrate community life.
🐦🔥 Dragons, phoenixes, opera figures, and flowers often crown the roofs of temples and ancestral halls. To create them, craftsmen first shape the forms of dragons, qilin, or floral motifs from cement. They then handpick porcelain bowls in matching tones, use pliers to cut the bowls into shards, trim each piece into scales, petals, and leaves, and carefully embed them into the structure one by one.
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Changsha just might have the most nostalgic restaurant in China — and it’s five stories tall.
Wenheyou Market (文和友市场) looks like something between a 1980s time capsule and a cyberpunk movie set. Hidden inside a shopping mall, this Hunan restaurant is a full sensory experience: neon-lit alleys, retro arcades, old-school snack stalls, and photo spots that feel straight out of Kowloon Walled City-era Hong Kong.
Every floor tells a story. There’s a “China Memory” Grand Clock, a Scent Museum, cable cars, glowing shop signs, and endless corners to explore. The food’s just as nostalgic — spicy shrimp, sausage, lard rice, and rice wine — served alongside a dose of Changsha’s history.
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It’s not easy carrying a dragon made of fire. 🔥
Every Mid-Autumn Festival, Hong Kong’s Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance takes over the streets — a 67-metre-long dragon covered in more than 10,000 burning incense sticks, lifted and moved by over 300 performers.
Recognised as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage, the dance has been performed for over a century, praying for peace and safety while turning the city’s night sky into a glowing blur of smoke, rhythm, and heat.
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