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Trendy restaurants are all the rage in Beijing these days - both fancy-dress joints and “high-concept” restaurants. Among the latter are places like the all-new “dark” restaurant, romantically named “Whale Insides,”... ...full story at bokane

from bokane on Fri, Feb 09 2007

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