Blog Tag - shopping

DP: 5 things To Taste, Smell, Touch, Hear And See, Nov 23-25
Beijing can be overstimulating place to live, to say the least. Let’s be real: sometimes even our sixth sense (the one that tells you when that stick...
Dear Singles' Day, Enough Already
The Enough Already is a campaign initiated by Green Initiatives to bring the focus on the wasteful spending orgy that happens on Singles’ Day (Nov 11...
Expat Supermarket Institution Jenny Lou's Celebrates 25 Years in the Biz
Everyone's favorite market for foreign foods and bagging two-for-one breakfast cereal out of the discount bin, as well as cheese and booze, has just...
A Short History of the QR Code in China and Why Southeast Asia Is Next
China’s love for QR codes is no secret. From meals and groceries to rent and rides—quite literally everything can be paid for by scanning QR codes....
Haute Design, Low Prices: Nome Comes to Beijing
When the rent is skyrocketing, and you can’t see a salary raise in your future, how do you make the impeccably designed home of your dreams become a...
Hermit Living: How to Have it all at Your Fingertips and in Your Home
Life before new motherhood meant that I used home services not only for the convenience but also for the luxury of it. The notion of having my...
5 Gift Ideas for Your Loved One on This Qixi (Chinese Valentine’s Day)
Qīxì (七夕) aka Chinese Valentine’s Day is nearly upon us. Falling on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, which happens to be Friday, Aug 17...
Unique Furniture Store with Monthly Exhibition at Dairuhe Handmade Art Store on Xinyuanli
Beijing is not the best city when it comes to kitting out your house with creative furniture brimming with personality and flair. In fact, let’s face...
Hema Supermarket Offers a Taste of the Sea
God only knows how we survive without succulent, live seafood in Beijing. We try to justify it by saying we're landlocked, but life really is too...
Can’t Afford A Breakfast at Tiffany, Try Moleskine Café
Popular Italian notebook brand Moleskine has renovated their former stationery store in Taikooli South, just across from the now not-so-dirty Dirty...
Highway Robbery: The Prices We Pay for a Taste of Home
I think we all go through a phase of wanting to learn some of the staple dishes our parents made. It is in a way your responsibility as someones’...
Hopson One, the New Down-to-Earth Food Haven near Shuangjing
As we said last week when we first stepped into this new shopping mall, if WF Central is the wealthy kid in Wangfujing opening to fanfare and world-...
First Look: Natooke’s New Digs in Courtyard 46
Dongcheng’s never-settling dust has been disrupted once again, but this time for the better, with fixie favorite Natooke vacating their longstanding...
Victoria’s Secret Opens Three-Floor Asian Flagship Store in WF Central
Victoria’s Secret is a big deal. Its existence lures people in magically, just like the love potion in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Proof of such could...
The Past, Present, and Future of Singles' Day, the World's Largest Shopping Spree
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. It’s that time of the year again. Chinese hand-choppers, online shopping addicts who...