Metropolis. Crystal Gail Shangkuan Koo

This is how you talk about a city you love. You talk about it as if it's the only place in the world where this story can happen.     A friend of mine fell in love with someone when she went for a bite at a malatang one winter night. There was no snow; there is very little snowfall during Beijing winters. The film below the skies turns from yellow to gray, then the winds from Mongolia come and we would say, it's so cold already there might as well be snow. Some days there are, and those are the days when photographers…