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Recipes from the Garden of Contentment (Chinese: 隨園食單; pinyin: Suíyuán Shídān) is a work on cooking and gastronomy written by the Qing-dynasty painter and poet Yuan Mei. It is known in English under various titles, including Food Lists of the Garden of Contentment , [ 1 ] Menus from the Garden of Contentment , [ 2 ] Recipes from Sui ...
The work is primarily focused on architectural features, rather than natural features. Contrasts have been drawn between this and other classic works of East Asian garden design, such as Sakuteiki (of the Japanese Heian period) which concentrates on water and rocks, and numerous Japanese works of the Edo period (Tsukiyama teizoden, Sagaryuniwa kohohiden no koto, Tsukiyama sansuiden), to ...
The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years. It includes both the vast gardens of the Chinese emperors and members of the imperial family, built for pleasure and to impress, and the more intimate gardens created by scholars, poets, former government officials, soldiers and merchants, made for reflection and escape from the outside world.
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War is a 2022 book by Zhuqing Li (Chinese: 李竹青), published by W. W. Norton & Company. The author tells the story of her two aunts, who were separated on opposite sides after the conclusion of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
99 Ranch Market in Spring Branch, Houston (2011). 99 Ranch Market (traditional Chinese: 大華超級市場; simplified Chinese: 大华超级市场) is an American supermarket chain owned by Tawa Supermarket Inc., which is based in Buena Park, California. 99 Ranch has 58 stores in the U.S. (as of April 2023), primarily in California, with other stores in Nevada, Oregon, Washington, New Jersey ...
In 1973, Chen opened her fourth restaurant in an elegant Modernist custom-designed building at 390 Rindge Avenue, near Fresh Pond. [8] The building, designed by Alan Ahakian, was described as "marvelously secluded behind a baffled garden wall that focuses around a single tree". [19] The restaurant, also called Joyce Chen Restaurant, seated 263 ...
Cha chaan teng (Chinese: 茶餐廳; Cantonese Yale: chàhchāantēng; lit. 'tea restaurant'), often called a Hong Kong-style cafe or diner in English, is a type of restaurant that originated in Hong Kong. [1] [2] [3] Cha chaan tengs are commonly found in Hong Kong, Macau, and parts of Guangdong.
Lushan Botanical Garden is a member of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and the Initiative for Collective Conservation in Chinese Botanical Gardens (ICCBG). [6] The botanical garden currently hosts 140 staff, including 43 doctors and 40 master’s degree holders, being mainly from Nanchang University. The garden hosts 800,000 ...