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TravelSichuan Airlines let kids become “little flight attendants” for Children’s Day
Sichuan Airlines gave some of its youngest passengers a very cute upgrade for Children’s Day: a chance to experience life as “little flight attendants.
Food & BeverageCHAGEE just turned its signature tea drinks into Geelato
CHAGEE just turned its signature tea drinks into Geelato! CHAGEE is no longer satisfied with being something you drink on a hot day.
TechHuawei-backed Maextro S800 is coming for Rolls-Royce and Bentley's old-money club
Traditional ultra-luxury brands like Rolls-Royce and Bentley sell a very old kind of dream: century-old heritage, hand-finished details, aristocratic quietness,
ViralA Chinese mall hosted a "don’t let the teacher catch you eating" contest
A mall in Ningbo, Zhejiang just turned one of China’s most relatable school memories into a real competition: secretly eating in class without getting caught by
FashionShanghai now has a Givenchy breakfast pop-up with 3 RMB youtiao
Givenchy just gave Shanghai one of its funniest luxury crossovers: a three-day breakfast pop-up where the French fashion house is serving classic local morning
TechDeepSeek once challenged ChatGPT on a tiny budget. Now investors are lining up.
DeepSeek used to be the quiet kid in the AI classroom.
EntertainmentA low-budget Teochew dialect film just became China’s biggest box office dark horse of 2026
A low-budget Teochew dialect film just pulled off one of the wildest box office comebacks of the year.
CultureA 140-year-old Chinese diplomacy book is going viral for its hilarious flag drawings 😂
A Qing Dynasty foreign affairs book from around 140 years ago has unexpectedly gone viral on Chinese social media — not for the treaties, but for the flags.
TravelIn 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 re
FashionElon 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.
CultureShenzhen'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 little
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.