The usually chaotic free-for-all blood pressure-inducing junction of Sanlitun South and Gongti North looked like this at 6 PM last night: Eerie. Especially as the Chinese New Year holidays should have ended by now and […]
The stay-in-Beijing stay-at-home food-and-drink-delivery crowd just got another option to hold them over during the coronavirus crisis as Hulu restaurant announced it will start delivery, including its popular ‘power lunch’, from Wednesday. Hulu is handling […]
I got back to Beijing from a long holiday just in time for the launch of Nao Bistro and the coronavirus crisis. ‘You take the good, you take the bad,’ as TV show The Facts of Life reminded on […]
Hey Nao! It’s so Beijing to go on vacation for a few weeks and return to a half-dozen new bars / restaurants in your neighborhood. In my case, the most striking — and welcome — […]
Beijing is set to ring in 2020 with dozens of New Year’s Eve parties. Here is a bunch of options for a fun night in our fair city. My suggestion, as with last week’s Christmas […]
The Christmas season is upon us and Beijing provides a bounty of holiday meals and deals for those who want to get into the spirit. Here are a few dozen options. My advice: RSVP, RSVP, […]
The Bookworm is dead. So I unearthed the 900-word play that I wrote there one afternoon in 2009. It features a hit man, a gerbil, a guy writing a novel about being an English teacher […]
Brian McKenna is back. If you lived here a dozen years ago or so, he was a larger than life chef that began his Beijing stint at Blu Lobster (now Azur) in the Shangri-la Hotel […]
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