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First Look: Natooke’s New Digs in Fangjia-Adjacent Courtyard 46
Dongcheng’s never-settling dust has been disrupted once again, but this time for the better, with fixie favorite Natooke vacating their longstanding Wudaoying spot in favor of a new venue a few streets...
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Why Are People Queuing for 3 Hours to Buy “Dirty Buns”?
Trendy foods make me irrationally angry. Don't get me wrong, I'm all in on avocado toast, but unicorn lattes? Rainbow bagels? Blue wine? Give me a break. Call me old fashioned but I’m of the opinion...
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Schoolhouse Rock: Boogie With Etonkids at DDC as They Raise Money for Magic...
Etonkids rocks, quite literally! They will be hosting a musical charity event this Saturday at DDC to get you and your friends (or kids of an appropriate age) your musical fix.Performing will be such...
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5 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...
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We Ask Beijing Brewers If Canned Craft Beer All It's Cracked up to Be
As the craft beer movement in China goes from strength to strength, both overseas imports and locally-brewed beers are beginning to line up on our bar and supermarket shelves in a rainbow of edgy...
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"Foreigner" Jailed 15 Days for Failing Beijing Airport Security Check
A self-proclaimed "foreigner" has been detained for 15 days by Beijing police after she refused to submit for a body search at Beijing International Airport.Surveillance video shows the unidentified...
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Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow: Chris Verrill of Beijing Playhouse Says...
Not often does an expat come to Beijing who has influenced numerous lives in the way that Chris Verrill did with his founding of the Beijing Playhouse in 2006 and the Charity Readers Theater in 2013....
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East-End Subway Transfer to Disappear as Metro Line 1 to Merge with Batong Line
One of Beijing's most inconvenient subway transfers will be a thing of the past as the city announces it will merge subway service on the Beijing Metro Line 1 and the Batong into a single, unified...
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"Mei Wenti, Mon Amis!" Expat's New Multilingual Cookbook Makes French Cuisine...
Though it's all too easy to assume French cuisine is too elaborate, rich, and heavy for everyday home cooking, Olivia Guinebault is striving to render that misconception moot. The French expat recently...
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One Meal Opens with Home-Style Beijing Cuisine at Yintai Center
In just a few short weeks Chinese Spring Festival will be upon us. Sitting down with family and close friends for a meal is China's preferred way to share the love, especially during the New Year....
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How Wechat Became the First Chinese App Entered into a Museum Collection
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode.A version of WeChat has been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London to be preserved in perpetuity. This is the...
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Beijing's Best Events That Won't Leave You Hungover, Jan 22-26
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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Squid Ink and Sous-Vide Risottos Among Highlights at South-End Hidden Gem Andy's
If you live far from Beijing dining hotspots like Sanlitun, Gulou, and the CBD, there’s no need to fret. Slowly but surely, high-quality, creative eateries are popping in various neighborhoods that had...
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Snow Your Limits: Beijing's First Snow of the Year Arrives During Cold...
Beijing's first official snowfall of this year finally arrived yesterday, bringing with it the coldest temperatures of this winter.Beginning yesterday at 7pm, the city received an average 0.1...
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How to Play 'Hop Up', the Mini Game That's Taking WeChat by Storm
You might have noticed that the smartphone zombies have been holding their phones nervously; eyes glued to their screens, thumbs busy pressing the screen and releasing, while a black figure is hopping...
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EAT: Korean Pop-Up at Migas Mercado, Six Years of Mercante, Bargain Staycay...
From now until Jan 28, Sanlitun-based Korean restaurant Dubujib will be popping up at Migas Mercado. Taking over one of Migas'"market stalls," Dubujib will be serving four classic Korean bulgogi dishes...
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Photogenic Food at Tomacado Kitchen and Florist's New WF Central Location
Imagine you own a restaurant-building-robot. You set the dials to 2018, and it whirs its way through reams of hashtags, separates the influential from the unimportant, and scours foodie blogs before...
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Street Eats: Dive Into These 3 New Milk Tea Shops in Sanlitun Soho
Think we've got tea ennui? Never! No matter how stuffed we feel, we Beijinger editors would never say no to milk tea. Although it's only been two months after our roundup of Beijing's best milk teas...
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State of the Arts: Group Show Explores the Idea of Detour at Magician Space
After four years hosting solo shows, Magician Space has decided to amass a crew for their latest exhibition Access Through a Detour, selecting a large and solid group (11 artists in total) of...
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"We are a Democracy": Macondø Prep Their Debut Album Release at Yue Space,...
Well thought through instrumental music has a storyline, characters, and plot. Genre-fluid Beijing based instrumental band Macondø has been playing for over three years and are now busy putting the...
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