Valentine s Day Deals So Good You ll Totally Want To Make Out With Someone Feb 5, 2021 11:30 am | 1 comment | 381 reads
While big gatherings are still strongly discouraged and in some cases, entirely off the table, the beauty of Valentine’s Day is that it largely involves two people. (Unless you dig an “alternative lifestyle,” which hey, no judgment here.) So! To help you and your sweetheart have the most romantic day since Romeo and Juliet poisoned themselves and died in each other’s arms, here are a few deals around town to set your heart aflame.
On Feb 13 (5.30-10pm) and Feb 14 (5.30-8pm and 8.30-11pm), enjoy a glamorous and sumptuous Valentine s dinner at either of Intercontinental Beijing Sanlitun s restaurants. For RMB 1,999 per couple, the Michelin-starred CHAR Bar & Grill has a divine 5-course set dinner which includes French oysters and caviar, a scallop and sea urchin green pea puree, liquid porcini mushroom with herb
Throwback Thursday: As WeChat Turns 10, We Remember the Time It Became a Literal Work of Art Jan 21, 2021 11:30 am | Add a comment | 178 reads
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing s past, using our 12-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and wonderful stories of Beijing s days gone by.
On a cold winter morning 10 years ago today, Tencent unveiled its newest project, a humble little messaging app called
Weixin. Though the company was already firmly planted in the social media sphere with its QQ instant messenger app and Qzone social network, the idea behind
Weixin was to disrupt the telecommunications ecosystem by creating a service that wasn’t constrained to a single mobile phone model or service provider. Simply put, with this new technology, users would have more freedom to send text messages, short voice memos, and photos to their friends and family. As folks are wont to say, however
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Just because you name your band after a particular artist or song doesn’t necessarily mean you have to embody their sound. Heck, US-based group The Bilinda Butchers, who somewhat brazenly lifted the name of My Bloody Valentine’s guitarist, don’t wade nearly as deep into the tinnitus-inducing squall of the 80s shoegaze pioneers, instead opting for its sonically milder counterpart, dream pop. If, however, you’re capable of carrying the torch lit by your namesake without getting burned, then by all means please do.
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Throwback Thursday: Five Years and One Statistic Later, Beijing Sees Mixed Success With Tobacco Control Policies Jan 14, 2021 8:30 am | 1 comment | 199 reads
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing s past, using our 12-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and wonderful stories of Beijing s days gone by.
It’s been five years since the city first enacted the Beijing Smoking Control Regulation, the capital’s most comprehensive smoking ban to date. At the time, the initiative was met with skepticism after a failed attempt to do something similar in 2008, however, by all accounts, it seems to have stuck – sort of.
Veg-Jing Out: Dicos Puts All of Their Faux-Eggs in One Basket, New Vegan Pop-up Opens at Mona Bar in Longfusi
Veg-Jing Out: Dicos Puts All of Their Faux-Eggs in One Basket, New Vegan Pop-up Opens at Mona Bar in Longfusi Jan 11, 2021 11:30 am | Add a comment | 313 reads
Veg-Jing Out: Your semi-regular guide to a guilt-free lifestyle in the capital.
Dicos announces plans to replace egg dishes with vegan alternative
Last Tuesday, the domestic fast-food chain and KFC rival Dicos announced plans to add a vegan egg option to their menu at more than 500 stores across China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Liaoning and Shandong provinces. The news comes a mere three months after the fast-food joint added a plant-based chicken burger to all of their 2,600 locations on the mainland.