Blog Tag - Dining Feature
With the steamy Beijing summer firmly upon us, our thoughts are turning to fresher, lighter dishes and cold salads. Chinese cuisine boasts a wide...
Winter is here, meaning we are no longer pining after liangpi and other traditional cold Chinese dishes. As the temperatures outside change, we have...
In Beijing’s saturated food and beverage market it is no longer enough to rely on the quality of your food alone; today’s savvy – some might say...
'Tis the season for picnics and among the city’s many parks – both manmade and natural – Beijing offers some excellent picnic spots. We rounded up...
While it’s true that you can get hold of almost anything at Sanyuanli Market (without even mentioning Taobao), there is something to be said of going...
Come the warmer months, one sound rings out from thousands of restaurants around Beijing: the sound of cracking crayfish shells. Beijing diners have...
Part four (see: part one, part two, part three) in Hankering for Home, a series from our contributor Kyle Mullin that explores how expats cope with...
Part three (see: part one, part two) in Hankering for Home, a series from our contributor Kyle Mullin that explores how expats cope with the culinary...
Part two (part one here) in our Hankering for Home series from our contributor Kyle Mullin, exploring how expats cope with the culinary challenges...
Part one in a series from our contributor Kyle Mullin, exploring how expats cope with the culinary challenges facing them so far away from home. This...
Like any profession, cooking is defined not only by the talent of the individual (in this case the chef) but also by the tools of his – or her –...
I am a self-proclaimed meat lover. It could be a cultural thing, it could be that I grew up near a couple of great farms, or it could be because...
Perhaps it’s my British upbringing (we are globally renowned for our queuing skills, after all), but since I arrived in Beijing, I have always been...
A truly great film has the ability to stimulate a vast range of emotions and senses. Yet for all our technological advances, we still haven’t quite...
The best defense is a good offense – or so the story goes. We’re not normally aggressive people, but when “offense” means pounding a burger along...