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Find Your Expat Ranking With Our Work Permit Scoring System Quiz
Earlier this fall we informed our readers about China's new work permitting regulations that will grade foreigners based on a points system, and offered up our own speculative scoring system.Yesterday...
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Beijing's Best Delivery Services, Pt. 1: Restaurants and Restaurant Delivery...
What a world you live in, 2016 Beijing resident. Within a few swipes and taps on your phone you can have all manner of gastronomic delights flying to your door, whether you want to actually get in the...
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7 Events to Completely Avoid Halloweekend's Creepy Advances
So you hate Halloween. That's fine. Stressing about a costume, getting dressed up, drinking, slowly losing parts of your costume, wearing parts of someone else's, drinking, falling over, and crying...
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Authentic Hainanese Chicken Rice at Sanlitun Ji Kun Café
We know the AQI has been out of control recently, but the smog can’t stop us from looking for authentic Southeast Asian restaurants, not just because we have a helpless need for chicken rice, but also...
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Pizza Pandemonium: Brace Yourself for an Epic Elite 8 Showdown
With another vicious halving, just eight establishments remain in our quest to find Beijing’s best pizza! This last round of tasty attrition saw all the top seeds, except for Pizza+, progress onwards...
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An Intimate Look at Who Did and Who Didn't Survive From a Pre-Olympics Sanlitun
Browns. Alameda. The Rickshaw. Len Len. Le Petit Gourmand. Bar Blu. Metro Café. The Saddle. Nam Nam. Bus Bar. The Den. Poachers Inn.If you are one of the grizzled veterans who have been in Beijing...
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Your Last-Minute Guide to Renting a Halloween Costume
It’s too late for Taobao. It’s too late for that really creative costume you said to yourself you’d make after your hastily-prepared “wacky sunglasses” outfit last year failed to impress the...
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Limited Seats Still Available at Six Restaurants for This Year's Chi Fan for...
This is your last chance to snag a ticket for this year's Chi Fan for Charity (CFFC), held at 65 restaurants across town on Saturday, November 5. Now in its eighth year, CFFC has raised over RMB 4...
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New Promising High Town Brewpub Takes Over Unsuccessful Particles Kitchen...
Fast changeovers are nothing new in Nali Patio, where High Town has taken the space previously occupied by Particles Kitchen less than a year after its opening.From outside this new venue (which...
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Weekend Gig Guide, Oct 28-30: Michael Rother, Beijing Misfits, Metal Fest
We here at the Beijinger are pleased to present Live Beijing Music's weekend gig guide, written by head honcho Mr. Will Griffith. Will has been running around Beijing for over four years, documenting...
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Bei-cology: Chow Down to Help the Planet With World Vegan Week
Mike Shaw hopes to make helping the planet a delicious proposition. As one of the coordinators of the World Vegan Week events in Beijing, he sees the socially conscious diet as not beneficial to his...
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Street Eats: Trick or Treat? Where to Eat Pig’s Blood Cake, the Popular...
Does the thought of eating blood leave your pulse racing with fear? C'mon, try not to be so skittish. Not only do the majority of Chinese and their Asian brethren eat blood-based dishes, many Europeans...
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Higher Airfares Are Coming; Hainan Buys a Bit of Hilton; Thoughts on Budget...
Travelers have been blessed with low airfares since about the middle of 2015. However, it appears that will not continue much into 2017, as regional and international fares are on the rise, and oil...
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What’s Up in Beer: Get Dressed Up and Silly at These Halloween Parties
This weekend is bound to be full of fun – there are several Halloween events organized by different brewpubs, some new seasonal brews, and the JakaBusters will be back on the town ready to give you...
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Never Miss a Beat With the Beijinger's Newsletter, WeChat, and Facebook...
You wanna know what's going on in the capital? There's no better way than having the info delivered to you wherever you are.For those of you into good ol' fashioned email (or have a smartphone –...
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This Week in Health and Fitness: Last Chance to Take Part in Fall Beijing...
This Week in Health and Fitness looks at the latest goings on in health and fitness around town so you can live your #bestlife.The fall edition of Beijing Health Week wrapped up yesterday, but tonight...
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Tube Station Branches Out With Fantastic New Starters
When Beijingers hear the name Tube Station, one thing springs to mind: vast, massive pizza pies coated with generous heaps of toppings.However, the beloved local chain is also making serious new...
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The Ghost of Stone Tiger Hutong: A Beijing Halloween Tale
Is it possible that even in the neon canyons of Xidan, spirits of Beijing's imperial past still lurk?On a crisp autumn evening in the early years of the Republican period, a rickshaw puller pulled up...
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Beijing 'Star Wars' Fanboys Make Short Film, Enter Competition
Just like one of the evil Storm Troopers depicted in his film, Troy Sandford is dutiful, singleminded, and relentlessly focused on his target. But he's not trying to eliminate any Jedi, instead the...
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Is This the Worst Painting in the World Ever?
I was engaged in the sort of hard-hitting investigative journalism for which the Beijinger is famous – OK, I was skimming China Daily over breakfast – when my eye alighted on a headline: “Rare Blend of...
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