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A question near the top of Zhihu — why China's 'first of the Eight Great Cuisines' has almost no restaurants — has diners debating how Shandong's Lu cuisine won so completely that it disappeared into the default of Chinese cooking.
A viral fruit-shop scene, in which a small boy cannot bring himself to ask his mother for a dragon fruit she was willing to buy, has reopened China's conversation about guilt-based parenting — raising children who renounce their own wants before anyone refuses them.
Nubia's NaviX Ultra, the first phone built around ByteDance's Doubao assistant, has cleared China's final certification step — putting an 'AI agent phone' on shelves this month and setting up a test of whether AI-native hardware can sell.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
Technology blogger Li Jieling bought his first home — a Shenzhen house thirty meters from the sea — at a judicial auction for 8.7 million yuan, and plans to run it as a guesthouse. His friend's public warning about salt air turned the purchase into a national argument about property, discounts and hustle.
A trending debate about young people dropping contact with aunts, uncles and cousins has drawn an unexpected verdict from sociologists: the 'severing of kinship' is a normal response to urbanization, the one-child generation and relatives who judge more than they help.
Yu Donglai, founder of the supermarket chain Pang Dong Lai, published his company's sales dashboard on Weibo: 19.5 billion yuan in eight months, up 27 percent. In a cautious consumer economy, China is reading it as a verdict on how business could be done.
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