No one can turn perfectly fine ground beef into piping hot spam like the folks at The Beijinger. If your wechat feed is like mine, it’s been full of venues hungry for votes in The […]
Mali Wine Cellar celebrated five years of popping corks with an afternoon of wine, food, music and fun on Saturday. Run by the affable Ma Li, it’s one of those rare shops that has a smartly organized […]
Management at wine retailer / wholesaler CHEERS says it was locked out of its shop in Yashow shopping mall in Sanlitun yesterday “without warning” and “without legal jurisdiction”. In a message titled “Too Much Fun“, a reference to […]
Sanlitun is home both to some of Beijing’s best restaurants and bars and its most beastly buildings. A notable veteran is the squat 3.3 (see above) that transforms each night into a huge annoying kaleidoscope with its mind-numbing multicolored light […]
I tend to catch bands in Beijing when, one, I know at least one of the performers, and, two, they are at a place I like. Both conditions will be met Friday when The Beijing Beatles […]
One of Beijing’s all-time best bars, Ichikura, packed up its hundreds of whiskies in late December after a 12-year run near Chaoyang Theater. The second Ichikura—ErChikura?—will officially open tonight in the club area at Workers Stadium West. Fans will […]
CHEERS is already a reliable place to grab a bottle or two of reasonably good, reasonably priced wine, either for takeaway or drinking on site. (Case in point, two bubblies from CHEERS did well in last […]
This is the blog’s tenth year and I’m posting some “blast from the past” pic posts. As is obvious, I’m not the best photographer, but these shots do capture the scene as I saw it—in this case, […]
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