“Last Orders” is a regular magazine column in which we ask noteworthy Beijingers to imagine their final meal before leaving the city for good. This month’s host: Ignace Lecleir, general manager at Temple Restaurant Beijing (TRB).

The venue

Preferably, the feast would begin at 11am in the morning, if not at dawn, and last all the way until midnight. I’d want to have the focus on the Chinese cuisine I’ve grown to love over the years. The menu will contain a selection of Chinese and Western dishes that would awaken my taste memory. I’d like to have my entire team, some friends and family to join me. The venue of my choice will be Temple Restaurant Beijing, where I’m currently working.

Daniel Meller runs online contests to discover untapped talent around China, prints their designs on quality T-shirts and unleashes them on the public. His CreativCulture platform has been met with much public enthusiasm – so much so that he has set up a three-month pop-up shop at The Stumble Inn, with sights set on a more permanent location for later this year. We pressed Meller to reveal the inner workings of a burgeoning Chinese brand.

He staggers forward, dances back and then, sweeping his arms all the while, slides under his opponent’s legs and whips out a measured kick from the other side.

The movements are haunting and entrancing to watch. There is a certain elegance that defines capoeiristas – the official term for those committed to this Afro-Brazilian form of martial arts – and chef and TV personality Jun Trinh is no exception.

“A Taste of Home” is a regular magazine column in which we ask the natives of a particular country to introduce us to their national cuisine.

“This has really become the meeting place for us,” says Czech Embassy staffer Veronika Musilova, sipping a glass of Staropramen at Czech Pub. “I can’t come here at the weekend without meeting some of my Czech friends,” laughs Veronika, before confessing that some of her mates may even show up later that evening. This was a Monday.

Chai Dongxin (柴东新) only takes photos of things that relate to rock. All the images hanging on the walls of Jiang Hu Liveshow Bar and Gulou 121 were captured by his camera. In June, when he held a solo exhibition at 798, nearly all the influential figures in the current rock scene showed up on opening night. It’s hard to imagine that Chai first picked up a camera only six years ago.

How did you get a solo exhibition?
A British magazine approached me. I was actually under a lot of pressure. Actually, we should not see it as a photo exhibition. It’s more like a document of a period of time. I think photos covering five to six years is enough to tell the story of an adolescent period.