The new Hilton Huanying and Starwood Personalized Travel programs aim to make Chinese tourists feel more welcome by providing in-room teakettles (versus coffee makers), Chinese tea, instant noodles and slippers.

BBC: Building bridges with breakfast

Chinese gamblers, the most hardcore in the world, can lose all sense of time in the former Portuguese colony, often playing for days with no sleep, fortified only by tea and instant noodles.

ECONOMIST: Las Vegas comes to Macau

As a heroine of the tea-party movement, she would become an instant front-runner if she entered the race.

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