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Business

In a Montenegro town with fewer than 20,000 people, one Chinese couple quietly runs the only Chinese variety store 🇲🇪

We recently stumbled across “KINESKI BUTIK” in the coastal Montenegro town of Tivat 🇲🇪 — and what first caught our attention was the storefront itself: giant…

May 162 min read
Fashion

Elon Musk’s son brought a handmade Chinese tiger bag to the Great Hall — now everyone wants one

A high-level Beijing meeting somehow turned into a mini fashion detective case.

May 141 min read
Culture

Shenzhen's Off-Nature Museum bans kids under 14 — and burned-out adults are obsessed

A tiny underground-style museum in Shenzhen just became one of China’s biggest May holiday viral spots — mostly because it understands exhausted adults a…

May 121 min read
Food

Lay's opened a whole potato restaurant in Shanghai because chips were apparently not enough

Lay’s just opened China’s first Lay’s Potato Restaurant in Shanghai, because apparently chips needed a fine-dining era.

May 91 min read
Travel

Why are Chinese tourists kneeling at this statue in Rome Termini?

A bronze statue outside Rome Termini station has accidentally become one of China’s funniest overseas travel check-ins.

May 71 min read
Business

LABUBU is still that girl — it just launched a fridge and sold out instantly

LABUBU is officially in its appliance era.

May 41 min read
Business

LABUBU just sold out a fridge in seconds. That alone tells you where the IP economy in China is heading.

LABUBU just sold out a fridge in seconds. That alone tells you where the IP economy in China is heading.

May 41 min read
Lifestyle

Shanghai is hosting a 7-hour sleep competition where people can win cash by lying still

Shanghai really said: what if doing absolutely nothing was a sport?

May 21 min read
Society

China’s famous countryside creator Xiaoying left her abusive ex-husband — now she looks happy, glowing, and free

Chinese countryside creator Xiaoying, real name Yang Zaoying, is going viral for a glow-up that feels way bigger than skincare ✨ The Yunnan creator behind…

Apr 301 min read
Food

This McDonald's in Guangzhou cosplayed as a Cantonese restaurant and brought a classic local joke to life

McDonald’s China didn’t just join a meme — it fully committed to it.

Apr 281 min read
Lifestyle

This Chinese mom spent 3 months crocheting a "zoo sweater" for her daughter

A Chinese mom with barely any followers just went viral — all because of a sweater 🧶 The creator, **大暖子毛线日记**, wasn’t an influencer at all — she had fewer…

Apr 261 min read
Food

This Chinese homegrown ice cream brand is taking over where Häagen-Dazs used to dominate

While traditional premium ice cream is cooling down in China, one local gelato brand is doing the exact opposite.

Apr 241 min read