Go to BEDD | New Beijing Eats & Drinks Deals group
By Jim Boyce | Beijing-based bon vivant Andres Vargas asked me at noon on Monday if I knew of any good sources on food deals. Hmm, I do have a WeChat group like that and […]
Hutong value | El Nido has superb taco lunch, happy hour draft deals
By Jim Boyce | The new El Nido now offers tough-to-beat lunch and happy hour deals. Diners can get half-price tacos from noon to 2 PM, Monday to Friday, with five filling options and a choice of […]
Beijing to Beirut | Press Release closes as owner prepares new project abroad
By Jim Boyce | There are always one or two bars that instantly pop to mind when someone asks me for a recommendation. When I first moved to Beijing a dozen years ago, my automatic pick […]
High profile | Atmosphere Bar opened this week in 2010
By Jim Boyce | Atmosphere, our fair city’s highest bar, opened eight years ago this week. I regularly contacted then-PR director Diane Fermin through the many delays leading up to that launch and lucked into […]
Fun and Games? | Ten memories on the Beijing Olympics’ tenth anniversary
By Jim Boyce | The Olympics began a decade ago today. After seven years of hesitation, frustration and anticipation, Beijing was hours from the opening ceremony. Would it rain during those painstakingly practiced performances? Would […]
Catch the spirit | Five places to World Baijiu Day in Beijing
By Jim Boyce | With 20 billion bottles per year, baijiu represents a third of global spirits sales, but is surprisingly little-known beyond its home base of China. Also, the thought of baijiu makes many […]
Face value | The ‘real Beijing’ during the 2008 Olympics
Welcome to my 2008 Beijing Olympics ten-year flashback series. The authorities spent a great deal of energy encouraging citizens to put their best foot forward. How successful were they? My results from a one-hour non-scientific study. [Originally posted […]
Sting operation | Foreign’s media’s infatuation with scorpions on sticks
No Beijing Olympic Flashback series would be complete without covering the media’s obsession with a food that is about as common to the average Beijinger as sea cucumber is to New Yorkers: scorpions on a […]