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'MasterChef Australia 2011' winner Kate Bracks
Samosapedia: Best bloody diaspora desi dictionary in the world
Roland Kelts: Tokyo after the quake -- what matters now?
10 novel trips, Korea's first 3D film, best Sydney cruises
10 'novel' travel ideas
15个悉尼最棒的海滩
香港最佳啤酒酒吧
5 reasons why expats love Singapore
5 athletes to watch at the Universiade 2011 Shenzhen
10 best apps for living in Shanghai

'MasterChef Australia 2011' winner Kate Bracks

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 01:37 AM PDT

It was creating a delicious snowman dessert from the world's best restaurant, Noma in Copenhagen, that changed Kate Bracks' life.

The 36-year-old mother-of-three from the New South Wales town of Orange pulled off the complex recipe to beat co-contestant Michael Weldon by five points and claim the "MasterChef Australia 2011" title on Sunday.

Her newfound fame is a long way from her life in rural Orange, a few hours drive west of Sydney.

While enjoying her celebrity status, this humble winner just can't seem to absorb her achievement.

Samosapedia: Best bloody diaspora desi dictionary in the world

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 10:16 PM PDT

Part dictionary, part open encyclopedia, part gag reel -- four guys launched desi humor site Samosapedia barely a month ago, collecting terminology that celebrates the absurdities and idiosyncrasies of global desi culture and language.

In their first month Samosapedia's Arun Ranganathan, Vik Bhaskaran, Braxton Robbason and Arvind Thyagarajan amassed 2,000 words contributed by almost 200 active users with close to 400 words queued for publishing and an average of 35 new words submitted every day.

Roland Kelts: Tokyo after the quake -- what matters now?

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 09:55 PM PDT

I was commissioned late last year to contribute a chapter on Tokyo to a book called "City Branding: Theory and Cases". I have lived in Tokyo for a number of years and often find myself writing about the city, or at least my version of it.

As an expat who travels frequently and spends roughly half of each year living in New York, I am particularly sensitive to how Tokyo is perceived beyond its metropolitan and national borders. The opportunity to write about Tokyo as a "brand," an image, idea and product, was both disturbing and enticing. What did it mean?

10 novel trips, Korea's first 3D film, best Sydney cruises

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 08:09 PM PDT

10 'novel' travel ideas

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:40 PM PDT

Instead of taking a novel with you on your vacation, why not take your vacation to the novel?

Whether it's Anna Karenina on a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow, or Jake Barnes in the dining car from Paris to Pamplona, here are 10 fictional journeys you could easily embark on yourself.

1. Paris to Pamplona, France and Spain

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Jake Barnes enjoys some dissolute Parisian pavement life with his friends before hopping on a train bound for Spain.

15个悉尼最棒的海滩

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT

说到海滩，世界上可能很难找到一个城市可以与悉尼媲美。

海港附近和海岸沿线散布着约100个大小各异的海滩，遍布海港大桥南北两侧。可是这么多的海滩让游客和当地人困扰的是哪一个才是最美。

幸运的是，在温暖的季节里，悉尼的气候很适合大多数人前去探险。为了方便你的探险之旅，我们这里列出了15个海滩，它们是公认的精品中的精品。

曼利海滩

从环形码头乘坐30分钟的渡船，下船后，我们可以在曼利码头上看到一个标识牌，上面写着： "离城市五英里，离烦恼百万里。" 这便是这个"上帝的国度"的生活方式。

年轻、时髦、美丽、充满活力的游客是这里的一道风景，而国际性购物广场和休闲广场又为其增色不少。在这里玩上一天，你就会想着搬到北部海滩来生活了。不论是在海滩上，还是坐在周边的众多咖啡馆里，曼利都是一个适宜冲浪或观赏风景的好地方。

曼利海滩，South Steyne，曼利。

塔玛拉玛海滩

香港最佳啤酒酒吧

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 04:32 PM PDT

在香港品嚐佳釀的啤酒酒吧越來越多，以下是我們精選的最佳酒吧。

視乎釀酒過程裡酒花、酵母及麥芽的多寡配搭，製成的啤酒由濃厚香甜的德國烈性黑啤 doppelbock 至清爽柑澀的印度淡啤（IPA）均有。啤酒選擇繁多，如 lambic （比利時乾果麥芽酒） hefeweizen 酵母麥啤（夏天最佳提神飲料）及烈性黑啤（如健力士及其他更美味的黑啤）等。

手工精釀啤酒以小批生產，特別著重材料品質及風格細節。

「精釀啤酒太棒了，它那層層疊疊的味道，讓你喝了20年還驚喜不斷」記者兼啤評人 Jeff Boda 說，其公司 Foreign Devil 主要進口美國、日本的Rogue、Baird等手工精釀啤酒。

「這是熱愛釀酒之人以熱誠、技術與上乘材料製成的手工佳釀。」

對啤酒有興趣的話，不妨瀏覽 Beer Advocate 和 Rate Beer 網站，上有數百個啤評及各款啤酒指南。

可是現在先來看看五間供應上乘佳釀的香港啤酒酒吧。

5 reasons why expats love Singapore

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 03:00 PM PDT

Choosing to live in Singapore versus other Southeast Asian countries can come at a cost.

The recent Mercer Cost of Living survey pegged Singapore as the world's eighth most expensive city to live. In Asia, it is the third most expensive city, behind Tokyo and Osaka, and ahead of Hong Kong.

So why do these long-term expats choose to stay on?

The ease of a lifestyle with the option of domestic help, the safety factor, a high level of education and multi-cultural nature seem to be common themes -- and weirdly, they all love the weather too.

CNNGo talks to five long-term expats to find out more.

5 athletes to watch at the Universiade 2011 Shenzhen

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 03:00 PM PDT

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10 best apps for living in Shanghai

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 02:57 PM PDT

While the rumor mill is in overdrive over the iPhone 5's Chinese release date -- ranging from September 5 to early October -- Shanghainese fanboys already have everything they need in their pocket: Apple apps.

Here are 10 of the most popular apps to get to know Shanghai in different and conveniently portable ways.