Gouri Sharma - South China Morning Post

Gouri Sharma - South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/rss/512186/feed With nearly 20 years' experience in the international media industry, Gouri Sharma is a freelance journalist and writer from London currently based in Berlin. Gouri spent five years working on the production desk for Al Jazeera's media critique show, The Listening Post, at the news organisation's London bureau before moving to Berlin as a freelance journalist five years ago, where she continues to freelance for Al Jazeera as well as other international sites such Deutsche Welle. With roots in... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png Gouri Sharma - South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com It’s a late Thursday afternoon on a humid summer’s day and things have quietened down at Lon Men’s Noodle House. With the lunchtime rush over, the waiting staff are sitting down to eat while the chefs prepare the stew for the dinner service, the smell of ginger, garlic and onions thickening the air. The restaurant’s owner, Hsien-Kuo Ting, is holding court, laughing and joking with staff while playfully teasing his wife, Show-Lian. The Taiwanese beef noodle soup at Lon Men’s, developed from... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3233852/does-berlin-have-chinatown-no-it-has-something-better-kantstrasse?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3233852/does-berlin-have-chinatown-no-it-has-something-better-kantstrasse?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 09 Sep 2023 23:45:21 +0000 Does Berlin have a Chinatown? No – it has something better: this is Kantstrasse The telephone call that gave the all-clear came late one night in June 1989. It meant that Daniel Sanghoon Lee, a student just turned 19, was free to set off with his father and a family friend from Frankfurt, then in West Germany, onwards to Berlin. Travelling the 600km (370 miles) or so by car, they arrived in West Berlin in the morning, met up with a couple of other German-born Korean students for lunch and then all boarded a bus to the East Berlin airport. The hot June temperature was... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3171698/north-and-south-korean-families-left-fading?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3171698/north-and-south-korean-families-left-fading?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 26 Mar 2022 05:15:16 +0000 Children of North and South Koreans who saw Germany reunify doubt Korea can do the same