Spice Up Your Life! Interview with Brad and Jing

While most of us are repeatedly hitting the snooze button on a Sunday morning, the duo behind Wellington’s first Sichuan street food enterprise are firing up the woks down at Chaffers Market. Kiwese caught up with Jing and Brad from Sichuan:Spice in their nifty Panda trailer for a chat and some deliciously spicy street food! Hey guys, what’s on the menu tonight? *salivatesContinueContinue reading “Spice Up Your Life! Interview with Brad and Jing”

Falun Dafuq?

I have been agonizing over whether or not to write about Shen Yun. Now, a month on, here is the result of said agony. I attended the second of two shows back in April at the St James with my friend Rosa, out of strong curiosity and desire for $60 worth of entertainment. The postersContinueContinue reading “Falun Dafuq?”

Flat White Cafe and the Rickshaw Roasters: a Wellington-Beijing Coffee Crew

To live in Beijing is to give oneself to the incredible push and pull of constant human traffic. For a Wellingtonian, sometimes you just need a form of escapism from the urban madness of a city home to 20 million people… and the Flat White Cafes and Rickshaw Roasters coffee havens provide just that. IContinueContinue reading “Flat White Cafe and the Rickshaw Roasters: a Wellington-Beijing Coffee Crew”

Chinese Rock Royalty: Tang Dynasty in New Zealand

Tang Dynasty, 唐朝乐队, are often hailed as China’s first heavy metal band and are a household name to many in a country of more than a billion people. Kiwese met up with these members of Chinese rock royalty while they were in Wellington. Tang Dynasty came to New Zealand to play at a variety of Chinese culturalContinueContinue reading “Chinese Rock Royalty: Tang Dynasty in New Zealand”