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Drop it Like a Squat: Exploring Beijing’s Best New Fitness Studios
If you’ve ever bought a gym membership only to find 12 months have passed and you can’t remember the last time you actually went, then Beijing’s new crop of fitness studios could be for you. Instead of...
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Community Hospitals Across Beijing to Use TCM as a Preventive Treatment for...
While the argument over whether or not acupuncture is “pseudoscience” is far from over, community hospitals in Beijing will soon use traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as a preventive treatment for...
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US Football Popularity Peaks in China as Super Bowl Watched by Record 7.5M...
Sunday's Super Bowl may be forever remembered as the first NFL championship to be extended into overtime, or it may serve as testament to the legacy of five-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady. But, as...
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Delicate and Inexpensive Japanese Cakes at Koka, Dongdaqiao
Who would say no to a creamy dessert in a smoggy (read: depressing) late winter? The warm glow from Koka in the basement of Shangdu Soho is like a beacon, tempting you with their Japanese sweets and...
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Seventh Time’s a Charm: Get Ready for the 2017 Beijing International School Expo
For six years, our sister magazine beijingkids has helped parents make the difficult question of where to send their kids for school by organizing the largest school expo in Beijing – in conjunction...
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Seasoned Chef Tim Hunt Talks Cooking for Politicians, Celebrities, and Taking...
East, Beijing HotelAfter years of serving up dishes for various superstars, Chef Tim Hunt is now bringing his talents to the masses at East, Beijing Hotel.The British chef certainly has big shoes to...
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Outstanding Premium Tattoos at Imprint Tattoo in Sanlitun
In bustling Sanlitun, Imprint Tattoo’s brightly lit, modern interior doesn’t exactly bring to mind a traditional tattoo studio. With four professional, experienced tattoo artists, top-quality...
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Hey Beijing: How Hard Can It Be to Supply Public Works Employees With...
A recent debate on providing public works employees extra pay for working in polluted air has got us thinking: How hard can it be to supply these workers with anti-pollution masks?Not that workers...
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China’s State-Owned Media's Big New Investment?: Gay Dating Apps
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode.Contrary to most foreigners would believe, China is shifting to a much milder tone towards the country’s thriving LGBT community, especially...
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Throwback Thursday: Feb 9, 2009, the CCTV Tower Hotel Burns, Still No Opening...
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and wonderful of yesteryear.2017 will finally see the opening...
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Beijing Beats: Peverelist and Kowton, Boflex, X&G, Ozzie, Concrete Jungle
Beijing Beats brings you the best in Beijing nightlife each weekend so that you can soothe the woes of a long a stressful week with some out-of-body gyrating and some experiences you'd rather forget...
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Beijing Buffets Impose Deposits to Prevent Food Waste, Pisses Off Beijing...
Attention all buffet food hoarders (you know who you are), buffets across Beijing may soon add a RMB 100 deposit to your bill so as to prevent food waste, as reported by Netnews. If you are indeed able...
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The Ultimate 2017 Valentine's Day Beijing Events Guide
[UPDATED Feb 9, 3.30pm] With Spring Festival well and truly out of the way, it's time to start thinking about where to take your chosen someone for Valentine's Day. With only a handful of days left to...
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China’s All-Time Highest Grossing Movie Imports
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at China Film Insider.In 1994, China announced it would allow in 10 imported films per year that “basically reflected the finest global cultural...
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Noise Pollution, Feb 10-12: December3am, Spring Lantern Music Festival,...
Welcome back Beijing! Hope everyone had a swell Chinese New Year holiday. Your editor here went on a musical bender across Japan and let me say – it was pretty friggin' awesome. Not exactly kind on the...
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38,000 Photogenic Applicants Vie for Spot in World's Hardest-to-Enter School:...
Despite a rate of admission of just 1.3 percent, tens of thousands of hopeful applicants nevertheless lined up in droves this week for a chance to enroll at China's notoriously exclusive Beijing Film...
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'Kong: Skull Island' and 'Logan' Heading to China
The line-up for foreign films in China for March is already starting to take shape with Legendary Entertainment’s Kong: Skull Island and Logan, the latest movie in the X-Men universe, each securing...
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2017 BISE: Take a Peek at the Schools Already Confirmed
Not satisfied with your child’s current schooling situation? Thinking about making a change and finding a better fit? Regardless of the reasons, if you’re on the lookout for various schooling options,...
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Fast Food Watch: Yoshinoya Tempts Early Risers With Bulky and Bland (but...
It looks like Yoshinoya is trying to make us forget all about the Egg McMuffin or our favorite street-side jianbing stands. Although the Japanese chain is known for serving steaming bowls of meat and...
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Do Valentine's Differently This Year With Hotpot in a Tent at Gulou
Legend has it that the first ever servings of hotpot were consumed in a tent by Genghis Khan’s army, after the tyrannical leader’s cook spontaneously invented a way to quickly feed the troops before...
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