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If Nara Smith is TikTok’s queen of “making everything from scratch in a ballgown,” then 弓长有物 is China’s undisputed king ...
20/11/2025

If Nara Smith is TikTok’s queen of “making everything from scratch in a ballgown,” then 弓长有物 is China’s undisputed king of unhinged DIY chaos.

The man single-handedly built 100 completely different lamps from scrap: vintage rotary phones turned desk lights, moka pots that hold flowers, basketball hoops hiding tea tables, old coffee grinders reborn as cyberpunk glow machines.
Mission accomplished? Nope. Now he’s deep into his next obsession: crafting 100 one-of-a-kind rolling carts — nomadic coffee bars, night-market shrines, steampunk tea stations you can wheel anywhere.

20/11/2025

Xpiritualism started as a global internet art trend, now China’s remixing it with Taoism, nostalgia, and 2000s tech culture 🧿💾

UNESCO just crowned Quanzhou, Fujian the newest “Creative City of Gastronomy.” That makes seven Chinese cities with the ...
19/11/2025

UNESCO just crowned Quanzhou, Fujian the newest “Creative City of Gastronomy.” That makes seven Chinese cities with the title, and honestly, no one’s surprised.

This ancient port city has been quietly flexing its food game for over a thousand years. Jin-dynasty migrants brought northern flavors south, Song-era traders smuggled in techniques from Suzhou to Southeast Asia, and somehow everything fused into pure Minnan magic.

Wake up to peanut soup so creamy it feels illegal, or face-plant into a bowl of mian xian hu (noodle sludge loaded with whatever you want). Lunch and dinner? Ginger duck that punches, oyster omelettes that slap, lubing spring rolls ready for their close-up, and beef yan that hugs your soul.

Snacks are next-level chaos: stone flower jelly that cools you down in two seconds, four-fruit soup that tastes like summer, crispy yanpi fritters, and the infamous tu sun d**g – sea worm jelly that looks cursed but hits like crack.

Who’s booking the next flight for oyster omelette therapy? ✈️

If you find yourself in Jingdezhen — China's legendary porcelain capital — you need to visit THE SCENE, a ceramics shop ...
18/11/2025

If you find yourself in Jingdezhen — China's legendary porcelain capital — you need to visit THE SCENE, a ceramics shop that hits different.

Founded in 2023 by Keon, a tattoo artist-turned-ceramicist, THE SCENE is what happens when American tattoo culture crashes into Chinese folk art. Think bold lines, playful imagery, and designs that feel like they walked off someone's arm and onto a vase.

18/11/2025

Paying for your ex’s OnlyFans to “support their art”? 🫣 We asked Hong Kong’s creatives about their most unhinged purchases… you have to hear the reasoning.

Jubensha — Chinese live-action murder mystery LARP games — have pivoted hard into relationship drama. Scripts like "Let'...
17/11/2025

Jubensha — Chinese live-action murder mystery LARP games — have pivoted hard into relationship drama. Scripts like "Let's Get Divorced! Hurry Up!", "Slacking Off", and "Making Money" are dominating the market by forcing players to argue about dowries, careers, and financial stress in hyper-realistic scenarios.

These "emotional scripts" let young Chinese experience marriage conflicts without actual commitment. Some see it as a safe space to vent or even a compatibility test for potential partners. But critics call the writing shallow — conflict for conflict's sake — with mediocre ratings to match.

The trend also birthed "love companion roles" (恋陪位): good-looking game hosts who play your in-game romantic partner, adding physical touch like hand-holding and hugs to deepen immersion. It's become a core selling point and a way to jack up prices.
This rise mirrors a bigger issue: China's youth are increasingly avoiding marriage and relationships altogether. Jubensha capitalized on that emotional gap, letting people experience love and conflict through a character's voice instead of their own.

A few soup stalls. A row of red plastic stools. Can you believe this is NIKE?Welcome to 粤菜松苑 (Cantonese Songyuan), a pop...
17/11/2025

A few soup stalls. A row of red plastic stools. Can you believe this is NIKE?

Welcome to 粤菜松苑 (Cantonese Songyuan), a pop-up soup shop NIKE just opened in Guangzhou as part of a campaign with Olympic sprinter Su Bingtian. The tagline? "落足料 点会冇料到" — Cantonese slang that roughly translates to "put in the effort, and you'll get results."

Here's the play: The stall is on Ersha Island, where runners hang out. After a run, you grab herbal soup — think dried tangerine peel, bitter melon, dates, pork ribs — served with a custom NIKE spoon. It's cultural, functional, and extremely postable.

NIKE cooked. Literally.

POV: You open your feed and it's giving… simulation?Ten accounts, same aesthetic. Pixel clouds, retro fonts, dreamy capt...
12/11/2025

POV: You open your feed and it's giving… simulation?

Ten accounts, same aesthetic. Pixel clouds, retro fonts, dreamy captions that say nothing. Welcome to bot culture on the Chinese internet, where AI-generated sameness broke the algorithm and everyone's timeline.

But here's where it gets interesting: young Chinese netizens are reclaiming the bot as identity. ("I'm a bot among humans") isn't about going viral — it's about opting out. Posting shadows on pavement. Clouds over construction sites. No captions, no agenda, no performance. The trend got big enough that brands like KFC and Mixue jumped in, posting their own bot-core content.

Maybe being a bot isn't about feeling nothing. Maybe it's how burnt-out youth learned to feel something in a feed that never stops refreshing.

What if future archaeologists dug up a mahjong set and thought it was humanity's last language?That's the concept behind...
12/11/2025

What if future archaeologists dug up a mahjong set and thought it was humanity's last language?

That's the concept behind MONO.OX Molecular Mahjong — an art piece by Yang Qiong that just won the Grand Award at the DFA Design for Asia Awards 2025, the highest honor in Asian design.

Here's the (fictional) backstory: This mahjong set is a "future relic" from a civilization called DC4739, discovered through "reverse-time archaeology." Fragments with strange runes were unearthed, reassembled by GreenDragon Lab, and reproduced using today's most advanced materials — high-purity aluminum oxide and optical-grade acrylic, crafted with CNC and injection molding precision.

Each set comes with a unique serial number, sample certificate, and is sealed in a lab-grade specimen case. It's designed to look like something left behind after the world ended — a civilization's attempt to find order in chaos.

If someone from the future found this, would they think mahjong tiles were our final message to the world?

The most viral ad from this year’s Guangzhou National Games wasn’t for sportswear, a bank, or a telecom brand. It was fo...
11/11/2025

The most viral ad from this year’s Guangzhou National Games wasn’t for sportswear, a bank, or a telecom brand. It was for Heinz ketchup.

In a series of outdoor posters across the Guangzhou Metro, Heinz turned the green tops of tomatoes into tiny athletes, each leaf bent and twisted into one of 34 sports, from weightlifting to breakdancing to rock climbing.

It’s cheeky, confident, and perfectly timed, linking the spirit of competition with the brand’s own ingredient story.

The global Xpiritualism movement is a collage-heavy aesthetic that mixes New Age mysticism, internet nostalgia, and digi...
07/11/2025

The global Xpiritualism movement is a collage-heavy aesthetic that mixes New Age mysticism, internet nostalgia, and digital surrealism, and it has just found its Chinese reincarnation.

On Xiaohongshu, creators are remixing it with distinctly local energy: think Journey to the West, 2000s TV shows, pixelated restaurant signs, and bootleg game graphics, all colliding in divine chaos.

If global Xpiritualism feels like a meditation app glitching mid-download, China’s version feels more like a cyber temple built on Baidu forums and QQ avatars. It’s nostalgic, uncanny, and spiritual in a tongue-in-cheek way, a kind of post-Internet Taoism where the line between meme and mystic blurs completely.

You’ve heard of tanghulu. But have you tried milk skin tanghulu? 👀This unlikely mash-up: Inner Mongolia’s creamy 奶皮子 (na...
07/11/2025

You’ve heard of tanghulu. But have you tried milk skin tanghulu? 👀

This unlikely mash-up: Inner Mongolia’s creamy 奶皮子 (naipizi) wrapped around glossy candied fruit is officially China’s hottest snack. Think chewy, milky, crunchy, sweet.

At the heart of the craze is 奶皮子 (naipizi), a traditional Mongolian dairy product made by slowly simmering fresh milk until a golden “skin” forms on top. Once a symbol of pastoral life on the grasslands, it’s now being reimagined in the most unexpected ways.

Queues stretch five hours long. LELECHA turned it into a drink. Shanghai shops are charging ¥98 a stick. And the internet? Fully obsessed.

#奶皮子糖葫芦

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