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Diners who found themselves in London with a yearning for northern Chinese food used to have a hard time, given that the vast majority of Chinese restaurants in the British capital - run by southerners from Guangdong and Hong Kong - served mediocre approximations of it at best. The opening of Ba Shan, in Soho's Romilly Street, will therefore please purists...
Serving xiao chi - small dishes inspired by the street food of Sichuan, Henan and Shaanxi provinces - Ba Shan is the newest venture from Shao Wei (who helped pioneer authentic Sichuan cooking in London with his Soho restaurant Bar Shu). It has been put together in consultation with food author Fuchsia Dunlop, the first Westerner to graduate from the Sichuan Culinary Institute. "My role is to mediate between Western taste sensibility and Chinese authenticity without compromising on delicious and diverse tastes," she says. (See pictures of Beijing...
...world-famous brand can be a blessing and a curse. Ask Claude Nobs, founder and moving spirit behind the Montreux Jazz Festival, www.montreuxjazz.com, which will run for its 43rd season July 3-18 on Switzerland's Lake Geneva. Nobs, an energetic 73-year-old, was recently in London to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of his friend Chris Blackwell's Island Records, which brought everyone from Bob Marley to U2 to world prominence. Passing out leaflets for Montreux at a commemorative concert in London, Nobs says more than one hipster handed them back with the words, "Jazz? No thanks...
...damages payments so far. That could have the unintended benefit of increasing the pressure on Britain to drop its long-standing refusal to compensate people who claim they were radiated during the U.K.'s nuclear testing from 1952 to 1991. The eventual passage of the French bill will leave London as the only Western nuclear power without an official body to hear such cases...
...London Reassessing the Road to War British Prime Minister Gordon Brown authorized a long-awaited inquiry into Britain's role in the deeply unpopular war in Iraq that has claimed the lives of 179 British soldiers. But news that the inquiry would be closed to the public and that its results would not come out until after the next election outraged critics and opposition parties. Foreign Secretary David Millibrand dismissed claims of "an Establishment stitch-up," saying, "If you are looking for a great conspiracy, you are not going to find...