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Restaurant with topless male waiters becomes hot topic in China
A restaurant where topless men serve a traditional Chinese hotpot has become the subject of a lively online debate in China. The Layan restaurant in the ancient city of Xi'an has hired a number of muscly male models to serve food and show off their tuned torsos in nothing but an apron from the belt up. These scantily clad bodybuilders are, apparently, especially popular with some female guests, who have been taking selfies with them during meals and even inviting them over to share a hotpot, a kind of communal food like fondue where one pot is shared by several people. A glance at social media...
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Celebrate the Coming of Spring at the Nagahama Bonbai Exhibition!
The Nagahama Bonbai Exhibition at Its 70th EditionBonsai is the famous Japanese art of cultivating beautiful miniature trees but have you ever head of bonbai? It's a variety of bonsai, grown from Japanese plum trees. Held from January 9 until March 10, the Nagahama Bonbai Exhibition showcases these living works of art, celebrating the generations of care that goes into cultivating each tree. This annual exhibition reached its 70th edition this year. Relish Lovely Plum Trees in Full BloomThe exhibition, which began is 1957, has a collection of 300 bonbai trees. This year's display includes 90 t...
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Imagineer shares more about change at Epcot’s Spaceship Earth
ORLANDO, Fla. — More details have emerged about changes to Epcot’s Spaceship Earth, thanks to a recent Instagram post by Imagineer Zach Riddley. They enhance the announcement regarding the celebrations tied to Walt Disney World’s 50th anniversary this year. “Spaceship Earth is a unique structure recognized around the world,” Riddley writes. “To honor this idea, our Imagineers have created custom lighting features that literally emerge from her unique architecture. These features will shine across Spaceship Earth’s silver panels and ‘connect’ with one another, resembling shimmering stars in a n...
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Beautiful Japanese Landscapes! Celebrating the Art of Yoshida Hiroshi
Yoshida Hiroshi, the Japanese “Painter of Light”The work of Japanese artist Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950) is celebrated through a commemorative exhibit held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum until March 28, 2021. Yoshida was a landscape painter who remains famous for his woodblock prints and dynamic use of lighting. Born in Fukuoka, Yoshida was heavily influenced by both Western and Eastern styles. While his early work was often done in oil painting or watercolor, in the latter half of his career Yoshida created groundbreaking techniques for woodblock printing that allowed him to better expre...
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Hollywood, history combine in Churchill art auction
Rabat (AFP) - Hollywood's Angelina Jolie and Britain's iconic wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, a keen artist who took inspiration from the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, are combining for a March 1 date at Christie's auction house in London. "The Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque", an oil painting Churchill produced during a World War II visit, is tipped to fetch between £1.5 million and £2.5 million ($2 million and $3.5 million), according to a Christie's estimate. Put up for auction by Angelina Jolie, it is vaunted in Christie's catalogue as "Churchill's most important work. Aside from...
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Why Australia's south coast should be your first post-pandemic trip
In southern Australia, everyone's a surfer - here, it's less a sport and more a way of life. That way of life is pretty relaxed, with Melbourne's citizens as chilled heading for the waves as they are in the rest of their lives. Bankers may be wearing bikinis under their businesswear, or packing wetsuits in their briefcases for later. Those who aren't planning their next beach trip head over instead to one of the many bars and restaurants in the graffiti-covered brick buildings near Flinders Lane. The area is home to some of the city's best cuisine, which can easily rival Sydney in culinary ter...
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Croatia's restaurants to begin serving outdoors again in March
Promising news for jetsetting foodies: Croatia is easing its lockdown measures and allowing restaurants to invite people back for meals - albeit only outdoors. From March 1 onwards, Croatia's famous sausage, seafood and pastry delicacies will once again be available from restaurants across the country, according to new rules announced by Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on February 25. The pandemic situation in Croatia had eased somewhat recently and in late February the country of four million inhabitants was recording around 550 daily new coronavirus infections, with around 3,000 actively inf...
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Australia's Qantas planning international travel comeback in October
Australia has been closed off from the rest of the world for months, but with border closures expected to end later this year, the country's flagship airline is now preparing to resume international flights. Australia's biggest carrier Qantas has announced it wants to start flying to international airports again at the end of October when mass coronavirus vaccinations are completed. Qantas CEO Alan Joyce announced February 25 that regular services to New Zealand, which is largely free of the virus, could meanwhile restart as early as July. He said he was banking on vaccine rollouts leading to ...
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Restaurants and pubs allowed to reopen on Mallorca
Barkeepers and restaurant owners across Mallorca have just breathed a collective sigh of relief: After seven weeks of locked doors, restaurants, cafes and pubs are now preparing to reopen to guests in a first easing of the holiday island's restrictions. As of March 2, places that serve food and drink can once again welcome guests in outdoor areas, Prime Minister Francina Armengol announced in Palma. However, they must close by 5 pm at the latest. In addition, only a maximum of 50 per cent of tables may be set up outside, with no more than of four people at each table. The relaxed rules for gas...
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From Java to Komodo: A beginner's guide to Indonesia
A month in Indonesia - that sounds like a lot of time to see the country's paradise-like coastline, spectacular volcanoes and ancient temples. Or is it? The Southeast Asian country has more than 17,500 islands. Four weeks is not enough to see everything, so you'll have to limit yourself to a few regions. For newbies, the classic tour from Jakarta via Java to Bali and from there to Lombok is recommended - or to Komodo National Park instead. The train journey is still the most beautiful way to discover Java, as most Indonesia travel pros will tell you. Over several days it makes its way from wes...
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