Blog Tag - coping with quarantine

DP How to Taobao Your New Stay-At-Home Hobby
If you've already failed to make good on your Western New Year's resolution, now's the time to seize the second chance that is Chinese New Year's...
Go International: Games From Around the World That Can Be Played on a Go Board
If you're anything like me, you're likely intrigued by the ancient Chinese game of 围棋 wéiqí go, yet baffled by the rules. However, the simplicity of...
Stuck Working From Home? Improve Your Workspace With These Simple Tricks
None of us want this work-from-home period to go on for too long, but the reality is that it could continue for another couple of weeks. Therefore,...
Fran's Life At A Central Quarantine Center
Through the course of the pandemic, perceptions of quarantine centers, aka fangcang yiyuan (方舱医院), has been blurry. By testing residents frequently...
Stuck at Home? Here Are Some Things to Do Beside Binging Netflix
With talks of possible wider lockdowns looming -- or already happening on a smaller scale -- and given the current situation in Shanghai it doesn’t...
Win Big by Showing Off Your Cooking in The Hutong Quarantine Cook-Off
With all this extra time indoors, and with many of our favorite restaurants closed, our cooking game has been seriously leveling up. So now it's time...
Tips on How to Stay Informed While Also Keeping Your Sanity
Since the coronavirus outbreak, all eyes have been on the numbers – the number of cases, recoveries, fatalities – to give us an idea of the impact of...
Special Delivery! Get Fresh Organic Produce From Beijing Farms, Right to Your Door
With many of our favorite restaurants and bars still closed, we're all spending a lot more time cooking at home. It's the perfect time to tap into...
Go Big or Go Boom, Bake Your Own Rice Cooker Cake (Bomb)
Everyone nowadays likes to claim that they are a foodie and flood their social media accounts with beautifully retouched pictures of food... but the...
How to Transform Your Bare Balcony Into a Leafy Farm-to-Table Garden
Well, we've made it through the doldrums of winter, and I can guarantee you that even local Beijingers are starting to run short on their winter...
Exercise the Boredom Away With These Easy-at-Home Workouts
This post is provided courtesy of Ankit Nayal, Director of BActive Sanlitun Soho gym, as well as an ACE certified personal trainer and fitness...
Guilt-Free Bingeing: Food Documentaries to Inspire Your Quarantine Diet
When ordering overpriced fresh produce online is getting harder than purchasing discounted goods on 11.11, and we've already made all our trusty home...
Free Online Fitness Classes
Being stuck at home for long periods is bad news for your health for several reasons: you're deprived of the movement you get from walking or cycling...
Exhausted Netflix? Catch Up on the Best Chinese Content it Has to Offer
With this extra-long Spring Festival going deep into February, we're starting to realize keeping ourselves entertained is not as easy as once...
Learn Some Viral Mandarin to Fight Coronavirus Boredom
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to disrupt daily life in China, many of us are eager (and have a lot of free time) to follow what's happening...