Chaoyang Park-朝阳公园

Opened by the same team that brought you White Tiger Village, this Chaoyang Park adjacent restaurant serves up creative, artisan healthy eats while the Longfusi location dishes out quick and delicious Yunnan food. 

Small, unassuming ramen joint serving Beijing's only Jiro-kei (Jiro style) ramen - homemade noodles in a broth rich with pork fat, topped with braised pork tenderloin, bean sprouts, garlic, and rendered fatback. 

Fancy book shop has plenty of Chinese language titles and a strong selection of childrens books in English, though grown ups looking for English offerings aimed at their demographic will be dissapointed.

Situated 5km from Ghost Street (Guijie), Beijing Junwangfu Hotel features air-conditioned rooms and free private parking.

The hotel offers free parking facilities and free Wi-Fi throughout the building. Rooms are fitted with air-conditioning an LCD TVs as well as clean and comfortable bedding, an electric kettle and a private bathroom with shower facilities and hairdryers.

You will find a 24-hour front desk at the property.

Wine and Japanese tapas courtesy of the team behind Japanese resturant Vin Vie, just a stone's throw down the road.

WeChat: vinvino

Punk's not dead – it just retired, moved to Chaoyang, and started making Japanese food. At least that's certainly the case at Qimianting, on Maizidian’s Ichiban Street.

Replete with posters from Punk-O-Rama all-stars like Bad Religion, Rancid, The Descendents, and Dwarves, the aptly named, but charmingly low-key Chaos, and his business in partner, both busy punkers themselves in the Beijing scene, decided to open a little joint to escape the beer-drenched evenings of yore.

CK Culture Boutique, part of Cultural Keys Ltd., stocks genuine Chinese cultural products, gifts, and original works of art. From classic Chinese Feiyue shoes to crafted calligraphy, CK Culture Boutique has a good starting range of Chinese culture-related products, either in-store or online.

CK Culture Boutique also runs cultural classes at the center, as well as martial arts classes around Beijing and at other iconic locations in China, available to both residents and visitors to Beijing.

This diminutive Japanese restaurant serves up creative sushi rolls and grilled eel rice at very reasonable prices.

Italian-run Deli de Luxe is a small café tucked away in the Beijing Parkview Tower compound at the west gate of Chaoyang Park. The small team pride themselves on making fresh bread made daily, various ciabattas and bagels, deli salads, smoothies, and thich cuts of quiche, including flavors like spinach and bacon, roast pumpkin and feta, and salmon and leek. Minimal indoor and outdoor seating make for a quiet lunch outside of the bustle of Sanlitun.

Gloria Chinese School is located near the west gate of Chaoyang Park (with a beautiful view from their balcony) and pride themselves on teaching Chinese through organized, task-based practical activities. The school is able to provide students with a 180-day student visa.

WeChat: Gloriachineseschool