By Zhouyang · Shanghai
2026-09-30
A copper chimney packed with glowing coal, water with almost nothing in it, and paper-thin slices of lamb that need ten seconds — Beijing's other hot pot, and the one with nothing to hide behind.
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By Zhouyang · Shanghai
2026-07-08
The bowl is the size of a washbasin and the steam rising off it smells like a vinegar factory caught fire.
You’re in Chengdu. It’s 9pm on …
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2026-07-07
I was 23, fresh out of Fudan and three months into my first job at Microsoft’s Shanghai office. December. The kind of damp Shanghai cold that …
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It’s 2am. You’ve just gotten off a late conference call with the Redmond office — the kind where you spent forty minutes explaining the …
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