To kick off this year, we’re exploring how identity travels—from global Chinese diasporas to hybrid communities. We’ll be highlighting stories of belonging, displacement, and evolution in an increasingly borderless world.
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Jiangxi stir-fry, which originated in Jiangxi, has recently gained wider attention in cities across China. One of its defining features is its old-school ordering style. Instead of ordering from a menu, customers choose directly from ingredients displayed in a fridge.
After customers select their ingredients, dishes are cooked immediately over high heat and served within minutes. Meals are typically priced at a few dozen yuan, with many diners describing it as affordable and filling.
Interestingly, much of the early attention came from migrant workers in regions such as the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, rather than from Jiangxi locals. In some cities, Jiangxi stir-fry restaurants have become more talked about than local specialties, despite often operating in small, inconspicuous locations.
For many young people living alone and working long hours, Jiangxi stir-fry offers a reliable option for a freshly cooked meal without the time or cost associated with cooking at home or dining at higher-priced chain restaurants. Its growing popularity reflects broader preferences for simple, transparent, and reasonably priced food in urban life.
#radiimedia #goldthread #jiangxi #cuisine #culture
Jiangxi stir-fry, which originated in Jiangxi, has recently gained wider attention in cities across China. One of its defining features is its old-school ordering style. Instead of ordering from a menu, customers choose directly from ingredients displayed in a fridge.
After customers select their ingredients, dishes are cooked immediately over high heat and served within minutes. Meals are typically priced at a few dozen yuan, with many diners describing it as affordable and filling.
Interestingly, much of the early attention came from migrant workers in regions such as the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, rather than from Jiangxi locals. In some cities, Jiangxi stir-fry restaurants have become more talked about than local specialties, despite often operating in small, inconspicuous locations.
For many young people living alone and working long hours, Jiangxi stir-fry offers a reliable option for a freshly cooked meal without the time or cost associated with cooking at home or dining at higher-priced chain restaurants. Its growing popularity reflects broader preferences for simple, transparent, and reasonably priced food in urban life.
#radiimedia #goldthread #jiangxi #cuisine #culture
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Shaolin vs. Evil Dead (2004), directed by Douglas Kung Cheung-Tak, is the kind of early-2000s Hong Kong B-movie people used to laugh at for its clunky CGI.
Now, those same effects are getting a second look. They’re rough, obviously limited by budget and tech, but you can feel the effort behind them. Compared to today’s ultra-polished, AI-heavy visuals, this kind of “bad” CGI feels strangely honest.
Not good by modern standards. Still full of character.
#radiimedia #bgrademovies #horror #hkmovie #hongkong
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Shaolin vs. Evil Dead (2004), directed by Douglas Kung Cheung-Tak, is the kind of early-2000s Hong Kong B-movie people used to laugh at for its clunky CGI.
Now, those same effects are getting a second look. They’re rough, obviously limited by budget and tech, but you can feel the effort behind them. Compared to today’s ultra-polished, AI-heavy visuals, this kind of “bad” CGI feels strangely honest.
Not good by modern standards. Still full of character.
#radiimedia #bgrademovies #horror #hkmovie #hongkong
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For artist and designer Jun Zuan Ang (@thisisjz), Singapore is a city best understood through observation and memory. His creative practice, spanning objects, drawings, and cartoons with @highnunchicken, is rooted in the quiet details of everyday life. This guide is an extension of that practice: a personal map of the tastes, queues, and community spaces that form his Singapore.
It begins with the familiar: the morning ritual of hot chicken wings at Epok Epok Central, a stall from his childhood in Eunos, and the Sunday brunch queue for “really good chicken rice” at Far East. It moves through the rich double fish soup at Anshun and the “wild bakes” at the beautifully designed BINGO in Joo Chiat.
But his city is also one of creative discovery. He points to the forward-looking arts hub TOKONOMA, the community-driven OPEN DOOR STORE, and the Heartware Store & Gallery, a space filled with “cute, strange and wonderful objects” by artists, including his own. This is Singapore framed by an artist’s eye, where a lifelong queue and a future exhibition hold equal weight in the story of home.
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#RADIImedia #Singapore #CityGuide #JunZuanAng #SingaporeEats
For artist and designer Jun Zuan Ang (@thisisjz), Singapore is a city best understood through observation and memory. His creative practice, spanning objects, drawings, and cartoons with @highnunchicken, is rooted in the quiet details of everyday life. This guide is an extension of that practice: a personal map of the tastes, queues, and community spaces that form his Singapore.
It begins with the familiar: the morning ritual of hot chicken wings at Epok Epok Central, a stall from his childhood in Eunos, and the Sunday brunch queue for “really good chicken rice” at Far East. It moves through the rich double fish soup at Anshun and the “wild bakes” at the beautifully designed BINGO in Joo Chiat.
But his city is also one of creative discovery. He points to the forward-looking arts hub TOKONOMA, the community-driven OPEN DOOR STORE, and the Heartware Store & Gallery, a space filled with “cute, strange and wonderful objects” by artists, including his own. This is Singapore framed by an artist’s eye, where a lifelong queue and a future exhibition hold equal weight in the story of home.
Follow @RADII_media for more ultimate city guides across Asia.
#RADIImedia #Singapore #CityGuide #JunZuanAng #SingaporeEats
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his email came through our inbox and stuck with us.
Milo, a final-year Media & Communications student, is making a documentary about CRITICAL MASS (@criticalmass.space), a youth-led collective in Hong Kong that runs free, creative-focused meetups. His project looks at how young creatives are building community and staying independent in a city where space, time, and money increasingly work against the arts.
Through interviews with artists, organisers, DJs, and workshop hosts, the film follows how CRITICAL MASS creates its own support system, from hands-on craft workshops to DJ sets rooted in local and UK club culture. It’s less about chasing visibility, more about showing what happens when people consistently show up for each other.
As Milo puts it, he’s navigating the same pressures himself. That shared position, between making work and trying to survive, is what gives the project its perspective.
Alongside the screening of this docu, CRITICAL MASS will also be hosting a set of workshops led by its creative community, DJs, and good times. We’ve decided to give each talent a lil spotlight moment. Check it out above and stop by the event on 1/21 if you’re in the area.
his email came through our inbox and stuck with us.
Milo, a final-year Media & Communications student, is making a documentary about CRITICAL MASS (@criticalmass.space), a youth-led collective in Hong Kong that runs free, creative-focused meetups. His project looks at how young creatives are building community and staying independent in a city where space, time, and money increasingly work against the arts.
Through interviews with artists, organisers, DJs, and workshop hosts, the film follows how CRITICAL MASS creates its own support system, from hands-on craft workshops to DJ sets rooted in local and UK club culture. It’s less about chasing visibility, more about showing what happens when people consistently show up for each other.
As Milo puts it, he’s navigating the same pressures himself. That shared position, between making work and trying to survive, is what gives the project its perspective.
Alongside the screening of this docu, CRITICAL MASS will also be hosting a set of workshops led by its creative community, DJs, and good times. We’ve decided to give each talent a lil spotlight moment. Check it out above and stop by the event on 1/21 if you’re in the area.
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This CNY, Valentino (@maisonvalentino) partnered with Friendship Creative Center to stage a lantern festival unlike the traditional kind. Titled Huá Dēng Yù Mèng (Riding Light, Dreaming Forward), the project brought together nine Chinese artists and non-heritage practitioners to reinterpret Year of the Horse symbolism through light, installation, and craft.
Instead of classic lanterns, artists used light as material. A giant hand-built paper horse charged through shadow and glow. Bamboo weaving turned into kinetic forests. Fireworks met shadow play. Medicinal plants became illuminated talismans. Non-heritage techniques collided with digital aesthetics inside a historic structure, blurring past and future in the same frame.
Beyond the installations, the space opened into a New Year market with paper cutting, sugar painting, games, food, and live performances. Lantern light moved across eaves and beams, pulling familiar Spring Festival memories into a new visual language.
#radiimedia #chinesenewyear #brand #activation #valentino
This CNY, Valentino (@maisonvalentino) partnered with Friendship Creative Center to stage a lantern festival unlike the traditional kind. Titled Huá Dēng Yù Mèng (Riding Light, Dreaming Forward), the project brought together nine Chinese artists and non-heritage practitioners to reinterpret Year of the Horse symbolism through light, installation, and craft.
Instead of classic lanterns, artists used light as material. A giant hand-built paper horse charged through shadow and glow. Bamboo weaving turned into kinetic forests. Fireworks met shadow play. Medicinal plants became illuminated talismans. Non-heritage techniques collided with digital aesthetics inside a historic structure, blurring past and future in the same frame.
Beyond the installations, the space opened into a New Year market with paper cutting, sugar painting, games, food, and live performances. Lantern light moved across eaves and beams, pulling familiar Spring Festival memories into a new visual language.
#radiimedia #chinesenewyear #brand #activation #valentino
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