The Job Hunt: Models for Yang Li, Roundabout Operations Director, Financial...
Who wants to spend their Beijing days locked up in a boring, dead-end job, with horrible colleagues you'd rather never see again? As our beloved reader, you should know that you don't have to submit...
View ArticleCleaning Up Nice: City Bookstore Opens on Sanlitun's Formerly 'Dirty' Bar Street
After a months-long renovation, Sanlitun Bar Street came back to public attention with a brand-new look. Newly laid pavement and extended green spaces have transformed the formerly “dirty street” into...
View ArticleQ&A Platform Zhihu Just Opened a Pop-Up Shop in Sanlitun, Flexing Commercial...
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode.The Chinese Q&A platform Zhihu put up a pop-up shop this week at Beijing’s fashion and shopping hub Sanlitun, attracting the city’s...
View ArticleState of the Arts: 'Discordant Harmony' Looks Back at Asian Art in '80s and '90s
State of the Arts is our regular arts column whereby we take a look at the newest moves in Beijing's creative scene and highlight art news as well as exhibitions, artists, and openings that you should...
View ArticleNoise Pollution: Sandee Chan at YGYS, Japanese Showcase at Omni Space, Loreli...
Cold snaps be damned! While it may be alluring to many of you to hunker down for the weekend, nothing gets the blood flowing better than razor-sharp guitar melodies, thundering drums, lyrical...
View Article5 Things to Taste, Smell, Touch, Hear and See This Weekend
Beijing can be overstimulating, to say the least. Let’s be real: Sometimes even our sixth sense gets a decent workout, the one where you know that stick of chuan'r will get you sick for the next two...
View ArticleAhead of Nov 18 Second Anniversary at Temple, Loreli Co-Founder Kerryn Leitch...
Two years after founding the creative platform Loreli with her friends Amy Daml and Hannah Lincoln, Kerryn Leitch (pictured above on the right with fellow Loreli editor Angela Li) will soon bid Beijing...
View ArticleQ Mex Taqueria's New Mexican Brunch Will Blitz Your Hangover Into Next Weekend
Admit it, you're hungover. Your eyelids are twitching, there's unexplainable leakage from a number of your body parts, and the last thing you remember is getting your head stuck in a car door. Or at...
View ArticleA New Chapter: New Literary Festival Celebrates European and Chinese Writing,...
The Bookworm is bouncing back. A little over a year ago, the events space, bookshop, and cafe postponed its annual literary festival because of financial issues. But this past August, its general...
View ArticleMemorial Set for Beloved Funk Fever Co-Founder Roobin Golestan at Migas, Nov 26
Migas regulars are sure to fondly think back on Roobin Golestan's nights behind the decks as part of the Funk Fever DJ sessions he helped co-found. Having sadly passed away on Oct 9 after a battle with...
View ArticleObentos' New Winter Menu Fights Off Chills With Hearty Salads and Soupy Bentos
Being the Brit that I am, winter meals at home usually consist of: a potato (mashed/baked/raw?), some meat, and perhaps a sprinkling of veg (for when times get wild), thrown on top of each other and...
View ArticleIntroducing 'Little Fatty,' The Robot Servicing Beijing's Old Age Homes and...
China's next labor revolution is happening right now, but it's workers aren't the robust, ruddy-faced individuals looking off into the middle distance on old propaganda posters. Instead, today's newest...
View ArticleYe Cannae Dae Nuhin Wrang by Going to This Year's St. Andrew’s Charity Ball,...
Ladies and gentlemen, it's time once again to fish out your kilts, dust off your ghillies, don your earasaids, shake out your sporrans, and (for the men in particular) lose the underwear, because this...
View ArticleMandarin Monday: Justice League's Cool Chinese-Localized Movie Posters
Hollywood films have made a point to localize their promotions in China, and the Nov 13 Chinese release of Justice League is no different with a series of portraits that "Sino-cize" everyone's favorite...
View ArticleUnder Clouds Offers Elevated Yunnanese Dishes and Delicious Desserts
We find it hard to define Under Clouds, which has been open for less than a year (see our first impression here). Unlike the regular Yunnan restaurants such as Little Yunnan, Dali Courtyard, In and...
View ArticleAnonymous HIV Self-Testing Kits Now Offered at Beijing Universities
For the first time ever, Beijing residents can get themselves checked for HIV anonymously by purchasing an HIV self-testing kit without providing any personal information whatsoever.The self-testing...
View ArticleLet Us Eat Cake! Miss Mousse Provides Birthday Cakes and Party Supplies in...
We don't know about you, but here at the Beijinger we've been celebrating a lot of birthdays. We blame Valentine’s Day, which according to our calculations falls almost exactly nine months before this...
View ArticleSame Great Noodles, Fancy New Digs of Bei 27 Hao at Nali Patio
No, this is not your average hole-in-the-wall, mom-and-pop noodle shop. Instead, Bei 27 Hao considerably spiffs up the experience of grabbing a bowl of Lanzhou lamian at its new location on the first...
View ArticleXiabu Xiabu Hot Pot Caught Lying After Cockroaches Discovered at Beijing...
After this summer's scandal involving Haidilao, yet another popular Beijing hot pot franchise has become embroiled in a food safety scandal.The Xiabu Xiabu hot pot restaurant chain is undergoing a...
View ArticleBeijing's Best Events That Won't Leave You Hungover, Nov 20-26
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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