Compiled by RAHIMY RAHIM and BEH YUEN HUI
A BARBECUE restaurant in Sichuan, China, has introduced an unconventional way of serving durian by combining it with grilled beef.
According to Sin Chew Daily, the restaurant in Chengdu city offers two unique dishes: one featuring beef slices mixed with durian flesh, and another where durian tops the meat. Both dishes are served in a durian shell.
Meanwhile in Singapore, a Japanese ramen restaurant has launched a novel beverage that combines milk tea with pickled cockles. The salted cheese foam milk tea with cockles, priced at S$4.90 (RM16), was created to celebrate the country’s national day and the opening of the restaurant’s 13th branch.
The drink has sparked a heated debate online, with some calling it “dark cuisine”, a term used in China to describe bizarre culinary style or unusual food pairings.
However, those who have tasted it told 8world Entertainment Lifestyle, a Singaporean digital magazine, that it was surprisingly pleasant.
> Chung Hua High School in Seremban recently held its inaugural space course which was attended by more than 200 students and teachers, Nanyang Siang Pau reported.
The programme, organised in collaboration with the Houston Association for Space and Science Education (Hasse), features online lectures by experts from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) and HASSE.
Principal Sua Sin Zang explained that the course was divided into four phases, including tutoring sessions on space knowledge and group studies on how humans live in space.
“The participants also get to interact with scientists and space experts before heading to Houston to visit the space facility to wrap up the course,” he said at the opening ceremony on Saturday.
> Major Chinese dailies have reported the tragic death of Qiu Feng, who was popularly known as the most handsome Shaolin monk.
The 21-year-old, who gained fame on social media for promoting Shaolin kung fu, died in a car accident in Zhejiang province last week.
Qiu was travelling in an ehailing vehicle when the car was hit from behind by another vehicle on Aug 7. He succumbed to injuries the following day.
Known by his Dharma name Yan Heng, Qiu was a 34th-generation monk of the Shaolin Temple, where he had lived since he was 12.
He recently took on a role in a Chinese drama, in which he played a monk.
The series, tentatively titled Journey to the Mountain and Sea, is set to be released next year.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
