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  "title": "Beijing — Between meals and meanders",
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        "title": "Miancha in Beijing",
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        "author": "Zheng Zhou",
        "date": "2019-03-24",
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      "text": "In Beijing, the morning begins quietly."
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      "text": "A warm bowl of millet porridge. A generous spoonful of sesame paste."
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      "text": "Behind grey brick walls, ordinary days unfold. A doorway, a passing bicycle, a pause in the shade. The small things give the city its rhythm."
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      "chapter": "04 / BETWEEN THE LANDMARKS",
      "text": "Beijing is known for its great monuments. But its quieter stories are found at street level, in the places between one meal and the next."
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