The Magic Red Cupboard- bottom left for the FT
In Beijing,
international newspapers are usually found in international hotels. However,
such hotels are a little hard to come by, near where I live, and unfortunately, I happen to be hopelessly addicted to the FT Weekend.
CW casually
mentioned that the café at The Opposite House, which is down the road from
where I live, offers the FT Weekend for browsing. Wonderful news!
Modern Art
This
impressive hotel has a most unusual interior, with melodramatic lighting and a
sepulchral ambience not unlike a cross between an Ang Lee and a Tim Burton
movie set. Pride of place in the hotel were enormous sculptures of two unborn
babies, shrouded in red netting. I think they call it Modern Art.
Being a real
philistine, I ignored the beguiling babies and went in desperate search of the
café. I rather naively assumed that since the hotel’s café offered the FT for
browsing, it must be for sale at the hotel too. A Kind Lady from the hotel front desk was most
bemused by my queries about the FT, and led me a Magic Red Cupboard, which she
then opened to reveal a stash of FT newspapers. Wow! She gave me the weekend
edition for free, and I promised that I’d read it at the
hotel café, which I dutifully did. Btw, the café serves an excellent cappuccino.
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