4 Hearty Dishes to Try on The Roots' New Autumn Menu | the Beijinger: “If you squint you can see Guomao,” Antoine Mansuy quips with a sly grin while pointing out the window of his restaurant, The Roots, which is located as far from the CBD as many snooty Chaoyang Beijingers can imagine – in the southern suburb of Yizhuang. And yet despite the restaurant’s far-flung locale, The Roots could go toe to toe with almost any midrange comfort food Beijing restaurant in far more hyped neighborhoods like Sanlitun, the CBD, Liangmaqiao, and Gulou.
Ni hao! The China Millenium Monument in Beijing 北京. All over the world, celebrations and festivities to usher in Year 2000 make up one of the grandest spectacles at the end of the century, as mankind strides towards the new century and millennium. New opportunities, challenges, and hopes are emerging over the horizon of China of the 21st century. The Chinese nation, with its splendid civilization of 5000 years, is on the threshold of an epoch of great renewal, as a future of yet greater splendour is arising in the East of the world. At the turn of the century and millennium, the China Millennium Monument. with its oriental cultural overtones and contemporary architectural art, will promote the national spirit by embodying an original style, displaying a modern aestheticism, and expressing hopes of the future. The China Millennium Monument, as China' s symbolic and commemorative building to welcome the Year 2000, is a gift for the world of the 21st century from the Chines
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