EAT: Your bite-sized guide to the best eats to be had in Beijing this week.
Want to make some need friends and enjoy some tasty food? Dinner with strangers has got you covered. Their events are meant to encourage a small group of people to make new friends and enjoy local food, this time with a menu of Beijing-style dumplings and snacks paired with four wines from Cheers, including a Primitivo and a Pinot Noir. Dinner is priced at RMB 200.
Prepare your hair grease and iron your poodle skirt, it s time for another murder mystery dinner. This time the theme is 1950s diner, and what better place to host than Beijing s very own favorite diner, Lily s American Diner, who will be serving up burgers, shakes, and more. Costumes are not required but are highly encouraged. Tickets are priced at RMB 360 including a three-course dinner. The proceeds from the dinner will be donated to Hello Baby, a non-profit organization that partners with doctors and hospitals to find and rescue childre
Kapital Koopas: PS5 and Xbox Series in the Mainland, Taiko Blind Box, New Amiibos May 19, 2021 8:30 am | Add a comment | 64 reads
Press F to pay respects to all the fallen goombas. It s time for a deep dive into China s gaming culture in our column, Kapital Koopas.
PS5 and Xbox Series X/S mainland version coming in a month
Sony Entertainment and Microsoft are gearing up to expand their territory by releasing their newest consoles – PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, respectively – in mainland China.
According to the Playstation news conference we reported on earlier, the mainland version of PS5 will be available in official stores and on Chinese e-commerce platforms beginning May 15 with a price tag of RMB 3,099 for the Digital Edition and RMB 3,899 for the Standard Edition. Not to be outdone, the day before Playstation s sales went live, Microsoft announced that Xbox Series X and S will be available for preorder beginning May 19 and will
Beijing Has More Billionaires Than New York
Forbes Reveals True Identities of Beijing s Richest People
Beijing has overtaken New York for the first time to become the city with the most billionaires in the world. According to Forbes’ 2021 list of the world’s richest people, released in early April, Beijing has 100 billionaires, more than New York, which has 99.
Beijing’s richest are mostly engaged in technology, e-commerce, manufacturing, education, bio-manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and real estate.
The richest person in Beijing is Zhang Yiming, founder and CEO of technology company ByteDance Ltd., with a fortune of $35.6 billion. Video sharing social platforms Douyin and TikTok, an overseas version of Douyin, are both products of the company.
GLOBALink | Encountering past and future of Beijing in blind boxes
Xinhua
03 May 2021, 23:18 GMT+10
BEIJING, May 3 (Xinhua) An exhibition is staged in central Beijing to showcase the culture and history of the city by way of digital blind boxes.
The exhibition, named The heart of Beijing: city mystery box, is held at Wangfujing, an iconic shopping street in downtown Beijing.
Blind boxes with various themes can be seen at the exhibition. At the Chinese-chic box , visitors can experience XR real-time imaging technology by playing different roles through wearable devices. Leisure life of Beijing of digital interactive long roll is a 15-meter-long interactive digital scroll displaying interesting traditional Beijing lifestyles.
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Music student Wang Zhaoxue showing the ‘blind box’ toys she collected, during an interview at her home in Beijing. AFP pic
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BEIJING, May 2 Tiny unicorns and cartoon girls in clown costumes line the shelves of Wang Zhaoxue’s study in Beijing tokens of China’s mania for “blind boxes” that has made fortunes for toymakers and even caught the attention of those in power.
The 18-year-old music student is one of the legions of young Chinese hooked on snaffling up the toys from pop art-inspired figurines to mini-archaeological treasures to complete whole “ranges” through endless purchases.