Though all-you-can-eat buffets still abound, a growing band of pioneers now flaunt good food, cooked right: not just standards from Canton or Sichuan, but Shanghainese dumplings (bursting with ginger-scented broth) or Taiwan's finest stew, "three cups" chicken.Amid the new opportunities, however, some veterans are struggling.
Shareholders at the gate Some you win, some you lose Storm in a test tube Maharajahs in the shopping mall If you've got it, don't flaunt it Shall we play a game?
DUBAI'S rich will soon have yet another way to flaunt their wealth, when the Burj al-Arab hotel starts selling its guests custom-made 24-carat gold iPads.
California's governor, Jerry Brown, who received a Jesuit education and likes to flaunt his classical learning, has of late been using the phrase to describe a war of all against all in the Golden State.
Companies tied to the Revolutionary Guard, which generally backs Mr Ahmadinejad but must answer to the supreme leader, Mr Khamenei, flaunt the dominance they enjoy in such fields as hydrocarbons and civil engineering.
During a time of ideological waffle, it is an issue which India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) can use to flaunt its nationalistic (oftentimes pro-Hindu, ie anti-Muslim) credentials and to attack Congress at a weak spot its perceived softness towards illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, most of them Muslims.
CITIES across China blink with fairy lights, fancy hotels flaunt trees and tinsel, and glossy magazine covers display festive recipes and table settings.
While he and his 13 wives flaunt their opulence, most of his 1.2m subjects struggle to survive.
MAIMONIDES, a 12th-century rabbi and philosopher, argued that it is better to give anonymously, like the sages who secretly placed coins under the doors of the poor, than to flaunt your generosity.
Politicians flaunt pickups as proof that they are regular folk.
But, as Ms Greig notes, every social event was also a power play, a way to flaunt one's membership to this exclusive group.
