Today, fresh-food e-commerce platforms such as Hema (Alibaba), Xiaoxiang Market (Meituan), 7Fresh (JD.com) and Pupu are growing increasingly popular. These platforms mean that with just a few taps on your smartphone from the comfort of your home, you can have a wide range of daily essentials delivered within 30…
What is it like raising a fussy eater? When a child won’t eat properly, what exactly are mothers so anxious about? In this Mother’s Day special, we start with fussy eaters, but our conversation quickly moves beyond pickiness, feeding routines, and menu planning to explore intergenerational memories,…
Late March in Tongchuan still holds a cool chill. There have been two showers over the past few days, light and intermittent as they were, but the dampness clings to the air. At last the skies cleared, and just after seven in the morning, Hongxia headed up the…
A note from Foodthink Can an urban professional rebuild their life and career in the countryside? Chen Xi, a former consultant who grew up in Beijing and spent a decade living and working in the United States, travelled to a Dong village in Guizhou for a water quality survey.…
Happy Youth Day to all our young friends! People often say that young people are the most proactive, dynamic, vibrant, and idealistic group. Yet in reality, most young people are simply wage earners hustling to make ends meet. In this busy, ever-accelerating era, over the past two…
The Earth is on the brink of breaching the 1.5°C warming threshold. Coral bleaching has affected 84% of reefs worldwide, marking the largest and most severe bleaching event on record. As Arctic permafrost thaws, it threatens to accelerate the warming process further. We are now triggering the first climate…
I. Women’s Lives Standing at sixty and looking back on my thirties, the distance feels immense, as though I am gazing into another life altogether. Back in the 1990s, during my thirties, the cultural landscape was awash with end-of-the-century prophecies and apocalyptic fiction. Whether in novels or films, the central…
From coordinated crackdowns on ghost kitchens to crops irrigated with “red groundwater,” food and agriculture issues tend to only briefly capture public attention when a safety crisis breaks. Should our focus remain fixated on these isolated incidents, many deeper-rooted problems will continue to be overlooked. Against this backdrop, Foodthink seeks…
Foodthink Says In January this year, a Beijing resident ordered fresh lilies via Hema, but mistakenly received toxic narcissus bulbs instead, leading to the hospitalisation of their 71-year-old mother and 12-year-old son after they consumed them. Addressing the mix-up, Hema explained that during the picking process, a packer had mistakenly…
Although we frequently talk about being “trapped in the algorithm,” it hardly slows algorithms from embedding themselves ever more deeply into daily life. But do internet creators, delivery couriers, e-commerce hosts, media professionals, and ride-hailing drivers—those who work with algorithms on a daily basis—truly lack their own perceptions and understanding…
