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Food

Seven of Fourteen Main Courses Were Wrong at This Nanchang Wedding Banquet

A father paid about 65,000 yuan for 26 tables at 2,599 yuan apiece, and the hotel served an outdated menu: grouper swapped for bass, roast goose for duck, the lobster downgraded, at every table. The hotel has offered 20,000 yuan; the father wants half the bill back and is going to court.

Entertainment

Shen Teng's Baghdad Eatery Will Carry China's Flag at the Oscars

"Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant," starring Shen Teng as a Chinese cook in Iraq, will represent mainland China in the Best International Film race at the 99th Academy Awards. The submission caps a summer of fan recreations of the film's signature rice dish.

Health

Russian Researcher Dies After Suspected Plague Exposure, Nearly 200 People Quarantined

A 28-year-old assistant at an anti-plague institute in Irkutsk died days after breaking a vial of live bacteria, and about 200 contacts were quarantined. Russian tests found no plague, but the account — a lab accident, a misdiagnosed pneumonia — moved fast on Chinese social media.