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Celebrate Hutong Resilience With Screenings and Exhibitions as Part of...
Though it's been a tough year for hutong dwellers – what with the endless closure of various quirky, creative, and beloved alleyway businesses – a new art project should help cheer up anyone with an...
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What’s Up in Beer: Take a Summer Beer Break With New Brews, New Imports, and...
Clearly the rain doesn’t help with cooling things down. Have you noticed that even the number of dancing grandmas at Workers' Stadium has vastly decreased to a handful due to the sweltering heat? Since...
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Yun Brew Opens With 21 Draft Beers and Addictive Popcorn Chicken on Xiaoyun Lu
We first noticed Yun Brew while walking to Burger Break last month for a giant avocado cheese burger and a strawberry milkshake. We're happy to report that this three-month-old brewpub is yet another...
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Shuangjing Businesses Temporarily Closed in 50-Officer Police Raid
The restaurant and bar strip northeast of the Shuangjing intersection is left reeling after a large group of officials temporarily shut down a number of local businesses in a series of raids made...
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Wokipedia: W is for ... Wenchang Chicken, Wood Ear, Wosun, Wotou
Wokipedia is a regular magazine column in which we introduce aspects of Chinese gastronomy, one letter at a time. This issue, 'W' gets the treatment.… Wenchang chicken 文昌鸡 wenchang jiThe progenitor of...
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Season's Eatings: Cooking With Versatile Fresh Figs
Figs are one of the best late-summer fruits, second only to cherries in my personal rankings. While you may not necessarily associate figs with China, figs have been enjoyed fresh and dry in China for...
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Street Eats: Summon the Sweat With RMB 25 Pan-Fried Baozi and Duck Blood and...
If you have read our previous street eats blogs, you may know how obsessed we are with shengjianbao(生煎包), or pan-fried baozi. As one of the most common street foods (normally eaten for breakfast) in...
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3 Photography Exhibits for Everyone This Weekend at Ramo, The Bookworm, and...
While there's never a shortage of art exhibits to choose from in Beijing, many reach a haughtiness that can be off-putting and inaccessible to the casual attendee. If, like me, you're intrigued by what...
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Chinese Fans Mourn the Passing of Linkin Park Frontman Chester Bennington
Linkin Park fans from around China are reacting in shock and disbelief to the sudden death of vocalist Chester Bennington in Los Angeles on Thursday. Bennington was 41.The music of Linkin Park has been...
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Beijing Won't Allow Justin Bieber to Perform in China Because He is a Bad...
Chinese authorities have explained that Canadian singer Justin Bieber will not be allowed to perform in China because he is a bad influence.The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture made the explanation...
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First Staffless Convenience Store Opens in Beijing
Beijing is the latest Chinese city to open a staffless convenience store as the country looks to leapfrog its way into a service economy.With no cash register on its premises, all purchases made at the...
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"I Will Always Love You ...": Sing Along With Your Favorite Whitney Houston...
Back in the simpler times of 90s pop ballads, nobody could hit, let alone hold, the lofty high notes attained by beloved diva Whitney Houston. And yet rising star Carole Stennett pays a more than...
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Refreshing Cocktails and Creative Pizzas on Offer at New Shuangjing Joint 789
Though the signage of Shuangjing's Tianzhi Jiaozi strip is still in the midst of an extensive (and quite strange) revamp, business is still going strong behind the toiling laborers at the entryways....
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Badaling Wildlife Park Visitors Still Can't Follow Rules One Year After Fatal...
Almost a year to the day a woman was mauled to death by a tiger, another visitor to Beijing Badaling Wildlife World has again willfully disobeyed park regulations inside its carnivorous animal...
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'Dahufa': The Chinese Film About Enslaved People Oppressed by a Brutal Regime
Considering the poor quality of domestic films, China's film industry falls woefully short of the Hollywood blockbusters that regularly win the lion's share of the country's box office. And yet,...
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Hanoi and Outlying Adventures: Karsts, Rice Paddies, and the Contagious...
Bordering China’s southern provinces of Yunnan and Guangxi, Vietnam’s place in Asia has not only been molded by its mammoth sister to the north, which occupied it almost continuously for over a...
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Old China Hand: Nyonya Kitchen Founders Talk Surviving Beijing’s Tumultuous...
Given the number of bricked-up businesses and crackdowns on long-running favorites, simply running a restaurant seems like no small feat in Beijing these days, let alone enduring the capital’s endless...
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Mandarin Monday: Dongyuan School Uses Cultural Activities to Enhance Chinese...
China’s rich heritage is clearly embodied in its language. Learning Mandarin (putonghua) is neither an easy feat nor for the faint of heart, but luckily Beijing has a plethora of Chinese language...
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No Consequences for Violators as Electric Fencing Rolled Out for Share Bike...
Beijing officially implemented a new plan to tame the city's oversaturation of share bikes by limiting their parking to designated zones that will be policed by an "electric fence." But, there's just...
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Beijing's Best Events That Won't Leave You Hungover, Jul 24-30
Our Events Watch series aims to highlight happenings that aren't focused on alcohol and drinking, but instead take a more educational or productive approach. Events include comedy, talks, networking...
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