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From sushi and yakitori from Janpan to hamburger and fried bacon from United States, from Jan 2 to 15, 40 restaurants featuring various cuisines from home and abroad in Beijing's Sanlitun area celebrated the "Sanlitun Global Food Week" to bring diners a global culinary experience.
Gia (PunkGia Wang) a native Beijinger，a musician and graffiti artist. She is the mastermind behind China’s first female punk rock band Hang On The Box and post-rock band Girl Kill Girls as well. She has released 7 records and 2 solo albums so far. Gia made it on the cover of 《Newsweek》 in year 1999. She was also listed as one of the Top 40 Culturally Influential City Heroes by 《Timeout Beijing》 alone with other names such as Cui Jian, Chris Lee, Zhang Ziyi and Chen Kaige.
At nine o’clock on a recent Monday morning, Lu Chen, the slender and polite lead singer of Top Floor Circus, the first rock band to sing in Shanghainese—and a man whose transformative stage persona sees him swearing, stripping nearly naked, and engaging in exaggerated comedic role-playing—met me in a bookstore at 50 Moganshan Road, in what’s become, in the nearly twenty years