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Street Eats: Tasty Vietnamese Banh Mi and Thai Drinks at Rollbox
Even though we've now trawled through a series of disappointing attempts at finding satisfying street eats in the form of jianbing, puffy egg torches, street burgers, and cloudy cotton candy ice-cream,...
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Pizza Mania!: Tube Station Brags Being the Hostess with the Mostest
Ahead of this year's Pizza Cup we are serving up bite-sized details about this year's participants in a series we call Pizza Mania. Today we introduce Tube Station.Since its founding circa 2011,...
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A Closer Look at the Bar & Club Awards: Best Live Music Venue
With the "A Closer Look" series, we raise our glasses in recognition of the Beijinger 2016 Bar & Club Award winners, before giving a toast (in text form, of course) about why they were selected by...
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Mandarin Monday: Learn These 10 Pollution Related Chinese Phrases to Help...
Mandarin Monday is a weekly column where – similar to our Mandarin Month series earlier this summer – we help you improve your Chinese by detailing fun and practical phrases and characters. Have a...
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Sichuan Dry-Fried Green Beans: An Adaptable Dish for Veggies and Non-Veggies
For me, no meal at a Sichuan restaurant (or most home-style Chinese restaurants for that matter) would be complete without a plate of dry-fried green beans (ganbiansijidou, 干煸四季豆). A classic trap for...
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Visionary Cuisine: Owner Alan Wong Talks About the Future of Hatsune
Like a seasoned sushi chef readying a California roll, Alan Wong just keeps adding one tantalizing layer after another to every facet of Hatsune. Think of him as not only a foodie or a mere...
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Tradition and Innovation: Burgeoning Dress Designer Chilly Chin Talks About...
Beijing-based designer Chilly Chin has been making a name for himself on the online shopping platform Taobao ever since the launch of his first collection two years ago. In May of 2016 he unveiled a...
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Q&A: Huo Jianqi, Director of ‘Xuanzang,’ China’s Controversial Foreign...
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at China Film Insider.China announced that it has somewhat controversially chosen Xuanzang, the story of the monk who brought Buddhism to China and the...
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Kick Mediocrity Right in the [Expletive] Teeth by Registering for Oct 30’s...
Jump over fire, wade through mud, crawl under barbed wire, and scale over inverted walls. Doesn’t sound like your typical race now, does it? Well, the Spartan Race– also known as the world’s best...
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Team Behind Dongli Brewery Turn Their Attention to Steamrhino on Xindong Lu
Opening a mere three days ago, on October 7, Steamrhino Brewing Co. crashes onto Xindong Lu, in the same courtyard as the Tayuan DRC duty-free shop, just several hundred meters away from a favorite...
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How to Get to This Weekend's (Oct 15-16) Pizza Fest
We're dotting the i's and crossing the t's on this weekend's Pizza Festival, and time has come to explain to you expats who never wander far from Sanlitun where it's all going down: the Zaha...
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Art Weekly: 'Synchrony,''Honor and Disgrace,''Buy No Buy,' and 'Innocent'
Following the long holiday, we have three solo exhibitions and a group show to wake you up, get you creative juices flowing, and enlighten your long working week. If you're looking for even more art,...
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EAT: Raw Pop-Up at Mosto, Last Chance to Enjoy Pachakutiq Before Winter
There's a definite "raw" theme running through this week's edition of EAT. And with colder temperatures closing in, we're glad of the opportunity to binge on light and healthy dishes before it's time...
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Biggest Ever Maovember Event Aims to Fund Library Project, Kicks Off Oct 14
Beijing Boyce has announced that this year's Maovember event will kick off this Friday, October 14, 2pm-late, at XL Bar. Alternatively, you can also support the worthy cause at our 2016 Pizza Fest this...
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As With Matt Damon in 'The Great Wall,' New Bruce Lee Biopic Accused of...
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at China Film Insider.A new biopic of legendary martial arts star Bruce Lee has come under fire from Lee’s daughter and fans who are accusing it of...
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Simple but Delectable Western Dishes at Newly Opened Kuan’s Bar & Dining
Sitting opposite to beloved Xingfucun watering hole and dining spot The Big Smoke, and two doors down from Frost, Kuan’s Bar & Dining opened on October 1. With neat and simple décor, this cozy...
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Dip It Low: How Mastering the Squat Toilet Will Improve Your Life
When I was much, much younger, one of my most memorable things to do was to visit my grandparents from my mom’s side. They lived in a small village in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, on a land that was given by...
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In Conversation with Carolyn Phillips, Author of New Chinese Cookbook 'All...
I have been following food writer, scholar, and illustrator Carolyn Phillips' excellent blog "Madame Huang's Kitchen" for years so it was with much excitement that I learnt that she was publishing a...
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Pizza Mania!: Yummy Box Serves up Chicago Deep Dish in Wangjing, Wudaokou,...
If there's one thing we've learnt over the years of running the Pizza Cup, it's that there's no right or wrong answer when it comes to pizza bases. Maybe you like it thin and crispy. Maybe you prefer...
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WowFresh: Battling Beijing's Pollution With Dead Sea Salt Therapy
Close your eyes and imagine that you are lying by the Dead Sea, breathing in the healthy, fresh air, listening to the waves crashing on the beach, one slowly after another. Apart from the fact that you...
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