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I wrote last week about how, depending on whose opinion you accept, Bungalow might have the best cocktails in the universe. I finally made it to this hutong tiki bar last Saturday to try them. Bungalow […]

Bottle, Boot & Cigar–BBC–celebrated its first birthday on Sunday with free drinks and a Nepal earthquake relief fundraiser that raised over rmb8500. I asked Doug Williams, one of the co-owners, about the first year of business. […]

The city’s best cocktails are at Bungalow Tiki and Cocktail Bar. So says Julian Tavalin, former Beijing bagel whiz kid and now budding drinks aficionado. I’ve been pushed by Tavalin via weixin for a week to […]

I checked out the Jing-A brunch with The Village Grouch last Saturday, arriving just ahead of a wave of distraught Manny Paquaio fans. The “soft launch” deal: rmb98 for antipasto, main and dessert. Antipasto: You get a cutting board topped […]

I hoofed it to Beijing Riviera on Saturday night to watch normally responsible people–the management-position-holding townhouse-living kids-at-home crowd–play beer pong and get drunk. And not necessarily in that order. The sixteen-team tourney known as the International Beer Pong […]

It’s the time of year to lace ’em up for Hockey Night in Beijing. This year’s event features The United States vs The World on May 15 and Canada versus Finland on May 16. That’s two […]

Posts on this site are a bit sparse these days as I juggle work, travel, bagels and World Baijiu Day. Here a triple shot of updates on the latter, er, spirit-ual event: World Baijiu Day Bars: […]