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Best Karaoke Venues in Beijing

Friday, February 1st, 2013

Plan your Beijing tour? If you are searching for a great place to enjoy a spot of singing in Beijing, my “Beijing Best Karaoke Venues” list will be useful for you. No matter you are going to have a birthday party, or have a great time with your friends, these top karaoke bars will bring laugh and happiness to your short stay in Beijing.

This “Beijing Best Karaoke Venues”featured in the selecton make sure you are in the hands of healthy and well managed Karaoke boxes. The KTV scams mentioned in the “Top 10 Tourist Scams Beijing” will never happen to these esteemed KTV establishments.

Well, follow me to have a glimpse of these top karaoke venues in Beijing.

1. Party World KTV (钱柜）

Beijing Party World KTV has the most complete music library which has stored over 20,000 recorded songs. This karaoke bar maintains the latest updates on the new songs. Singing here in Party World KTV, each singer sings like a professional singer. The whole set of acoustic effects are synchronized updating with the those in the Head-quarters in Taiwan.

Locations

1) Beijing Party World KTV (Lama Temple) 北京钱柜KTV雍和店
Tel： 010-88576566 010-58113888
Add：1 East Building, 28 Dongdajie, An Ding Men, Dongcheng District, Beijing

北京东城区安定门东大街28号雍和大厦东楼1楼

2) Beijing Party World KTV (Chaoyang) 北京钱柜KTV朝阳店
Tel: 010-88576566 010-65883333
Add： First Floor, Fanli Plaza, 22 Chaowai Dajie, Beijing

朝外大街22号泛利大厦一层

3) Beijing Party World KTV ( Capital Stadium ) 北京钱柜KTV首体店
Tel: 010-88576566 010-88576588
Add：The attached building of Tenda Plaza, 168 Xizhimen Wai Dajie, Xicheng District, Beijing

西城区西直门外大街168号腾达大厦裙楼

4) Beijing Party World KTV (New World) 新世界店北京钱柜KTV
Tel: 010-67088899
Add： Firth Floor, Zhengren Building, Chongwenmen Waidajie, Beijing

崇文门外大街9号正仁大厦1层

5) Beijing Party World KTV (Huixin) 惠新店北京钱柜KTV
Tel: 010-88576566 010-59639666
Add: 4 Huixin Dongjie, Dongcheng District, Beijing

东城区惠新东街4号

6) Beijing Party World KTV (Baiguang) 百广北京钱柜KTV
Tel: 010-63544362 010-63536699
Add: Opposite to Guangan Cinema, 11 Baiguang Road, Beijing

白广路11号广安门电影院对面

KTV Prices

Each Beijing Party World KTV bar has multiple rooms containing karaoke equipment which are rented out for time periods. Different times in a day are charged differently. The prices on weekends are higher than weekend days.

The singging rooms are divided into three kinds – small, Medium and large.

BuffetFood
Buffet(08:00-10:30)
Featured Breakast：egg pies, Oily Pie, Yellow,bread, yummy poridge and cold noodle.
Buffet Lunch(11:00-14:00)
Main food：Brief mixed with rice, oily fried noodle, Shijing Rice and Niuhe and Shanghai food.

After buffet: Afternoon tea (14:30-16:30)
Buffet Dinner (17:00-20:30)
Self-service Night Snack (01:30-04:00)

Party World KTV (钱柜）

2. Party Life （乐圣）

Party Life has over 200 singing rooms with good sound effects. This karaoke box offers complimentary buffet.

Locations

1) Party Life (Zhongguancun) 乐圣KTV 中华（swinning)

Tel: (010)62140299
Add: 32 Zhongguanggen, Nanjing

海淀区中关村南大街32号

2) Party Party Life (Chongwen) 乐圣KTV(崇文店)

Tel: (010)67086666
Add: First Floor, Zhengren Plaza, 9 Chongwenmen Waidajie, Dongcheng District, Beijing

北京东城区崇文门外大街9号新世界正仁大厦1楼

Complimentary Buffet at Party Life

3. Melody KTV (麦乐迪）

Melody is the earliest Discount-style KTV in Beijing. This karaoke box is quick in offering the latest KTV songs. But it doesn’offer complimentary buffet. It provides a small supermarket and a restaurant.

Locations:

1) Melody KTV (Zhongguancun) 麦乐迪（中关村店）

Tel: (010)62189088

Add: 24 South Avenue, Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing

北京海淀区中关村南大街24号

2)Melody KTV (Chaowai) 麦乐迪（朝外店）

Tel: (010)65510808

Add: Yi77,Waidajie, Chaoyangmen,Chaoyang District, Beijing

北京朝阳区朝阳门乙77号

3)Melody KTV (Yuetan) 麦乐迪（月坛店）

tel: （010）68085888

北京西城区月坛北街月坛大厦北门

4. Tango KTV (糖果）

Tango (Candy) KTV is one of the most luxuary karaoke boxes in Beijing. Cand KTV is in the basement of Tango Leisure and Amusement Space. There are various kinds of singing rooms available with rich selection of songs.

Location

Close to the south gate of Ditan (地坛), 79 Hepingli West Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing

北京东城区和平里西街79号雍和宫桥往北

Tel: (010) 64282288

How to get there

Metro: take metro line 2 and get off at the station of Lama Temple

Bus Lines: 13, 116 and get off at the stop of Lama Temple

Tango KTV 糖果

5. The Same Song (同一首歌)

The Same Song KTV is an affordable karaoke box. It offers several styles of singging rooms including mini, small, medium and large, the four kinds of singging rooms. This KTV also offers free buffet.

Location

Tel: (010) 62256688

Add： East Huiwen Bridge, North Street, Xizhimen, Beijing

北京西直门北大街文慧桥东

How to get there

Bus Lines: 21,375, 392,604 and 650. Get off at the stop of North of Huiwen Bridge

The Same Song (同一首歌)

6. Haoledi KTV (好乐迪）

Haoledi KTV is a karaoke brand from Shanghai, one of the famous karaoke boxes in Shanghai. It offers affordable prices with good location.

Location

Tel: (010)67726311

Add: 1-5 Shunwanjinzhuan Building, Yi52 East Third Ring Road South, Chaoyang District, Beijing

北京朝阳区东三环南路乙52号顺万金钻大厦1-5楼

How to get there

Bus Lines: 35, 37, 638 and 707. Get off at the stop of Jingsong Mis-Street.

Haoledi KTV (好乐迪）

Any questions, just drop a line.

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Zhengyi Temple Theatre

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Zhengyi Temple Theatre here refers to the 300-year old opera house in a temple-turned guildhall in Beijing. Chinese version of Zhengyi Temple Theatre is 正乙祠戏楼 which is often translated as Zhengyici Beijing Opera Theatre, Zhengyici Peking Opera Theatre, Zhengyici Theatre, Temple Theatre Beijing Opera House and etc.

Why Zhengyi Temple?
“Zhengyici” in Chinese means “Zhengyi Temple”. “Zhengyi” refers to an imaginary figure in Chinese history in the name of Zhao Gongming, who was bestowed as Zhengyi Xuantan, a guardian of Taoism and later was worshipped as God of Fortune. In 1667, the sixth year of Emperor Kangxi’s reign, a host of businessmen from Zhejiang Province collectively built a guildhall inside a Ming Dynasty temple. The guildhall was called “Bank Guildhall”, or “Zhejiang Banks Guildhall”, a temple guildhall. In the temple guildhall, Zhengyi Xuantan (the God of Fortune) was worshipped, hence Zhengyi Temple.

Why Zhengyi Temple Theatre?
Later in 1712, the 51th year of Emperor Kamgxi’s rein in Qing Dynaty, a two-storey theatre was built in the temple-turned guildhall for Peking opera performance, hence Zhengyici Theatre or Zhengyi Temple Theatre. So up to now 2012, the theatre is 300 years old! It is a two-storeys wooden opera house with orchestra seats – 200 seats in front of the two-level stage with box seats on the three sides on the second floor. The rear box seats are the most expensive CNY 18,000 for 12 persons. The prices for the 200 stall seats are classified into four categories – CNY280, CNY480, CNY580 and CNY680. Box seat – CNY1500 (5 persons), CNY3000(6 persons) and CNY18000(12 persons).

Zhengyi Temple Theatre is the first wooden Beijing opera house in China. With its stage facing the south, the theatre occupies an area of 1000 square meters with a traditional Chinese architecture style. It is elegantly furnished and quite rare among the theatres in the guildhalls in Beijing. Zhengyi Beijing Opera Theatre is often regarded as a living fossil in Chinese Theatrical Cultural History.

Zhengyi Temple Theatre is the first wooden Beijing opera house in China

Zhengyi Temple Theatre is the first wooden Beijing opera house in China.

What’s on Zhengyi Temple Theatre?
Starting from October, 2010, “Mei Lanfang Classics” has been on Zhengyici Theatre, which carries the cultural linkage between the Mei family and the Theatre. Mei Lanfang was born in a family of Peking Opera. His grandfather Mei Qiaoling is the most favorite male diva of Emperess Dowager. Four generations of the Mei family, from Mei Qiaoling, Mei Lanfang, up to Mei Baoqiu, all gave performances in the temple theatre Beijing Opera House.

Mei Lanfang Classics
Every Friday and Saterday, “Mei Lanfang Classics” , four highlights from his classical works bring the audience to a condensed appreciation of Beijing opera performing art within 100 minutes. On your Beijing tour, you must do three things – Great Wall Tour, Eat Beijing ducks and watch Beijing Opera. For watching Beijing opera, your first choice is Zhengyi Temple Beijing Opera – “Mei Lanfang Classics”.

Highlight One of Mei Lanfang Classics: Drunken Princess
Emperor Ming makes an appointment with the princess Yang to enjoy the flowers and drink the wine. Princess gets the banquet ready, but the emperor has gone to another princess’s palace. Princess Yang is annoyed and has to drink by herself and she gets drunk.

Drunken Princess

Highlight Two of Mei Lanfang Classiscs: Taking Command of Troops
When the lord of West Xia starts a rebellion, the female general Mu Guiying takes command of the troops again at the age of fifity.This play is the acme of Mei School and the last play of Mei lanfang through his life.

Taking Command of Troops

Highlight Three of Mei Lanfang Classics: Farewell to Princess Yu
Xiang Yu, Hegemon king of West Chu, is encircled by the king of Han. Yu, the Hegemon king’s princess, dinking and dancing, commits suicide. Afterwards, Hegemon King says farewell to his war-horse and kills himself by the Wujiang River.

Farewell to Princess Yu

Highlight Four of Mei Lanfang Classics: Sylph Scattering Flowers Sylph
The Buddha orders the heavenly maid to scatter the blossoms in Vimalakirti Nirdesa’s room in order to test his faith. The heavenly maid scatters the blossoms in front of Vimalakirti Nirdesa and proclaims the Buddha’s words before she returns to the west.

Sylph Scattering Flowers

Mei Lanfang Classics Peking Opera
Show Time: 8:00-9:30pm Friday and Saturday
Entrance tickets: CNY 280, CNY480, CNY580, CNY680
Add: No.22o Xiheyan Street, Qianmen, Beijing
Booking Phone Number: 010 83151650
How to get there:
subway: take subway line 2, and get off the Hepingmen station exit C1 and walk straight south from the Hepingmen subway station down Nanxinhua Street lying from north to south. On the back side or south of of Quanqude Peking Duck Restaurant, there is a hutong ( narrow lane ) named Xiheyan Street on your left side. Just walk along the lane about 150 meters, you will discover the oldest existent opera house – Zhengyi Temple Theatre in Beijing.

Zhengyi Temple Theatre is located on Xiheyan Street branching from Nanxinhua Street

The entrance to Zhengyi Temple Theatre

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Kungfu Show at Shichahai

Friday, July 20th, 2012

Plan your Beijing tour? If you are thinking of how to experience Beijing nightlife, my today’s post will be interesting to you. Basically after dark two musts for enjoying Beijing nightlife are Kung Fu Show and Peking Opera. Well let’s talk about Kunfu Show in Beijing. There are two places for watching kungfu show – Red Theatre and Shichahai Theater. For information on the kungfu at Red Theatre, please visit The Legend of Kung Fu at Red Theatre.

Today we’d like to focus on Kungfu Show at Shichahai Theater. This Shichahai Theeatre is attached to Shichahai Sports School, which is located opposite Former Residence of Guo Moruo in Shichahai Area of Xicheng District.

Official Kungfu Show title: Shichahai

Venue: Shichahai Theatre ( same name as the title of the Kung Fu Show – “Shichahai”)

Address: No.57 Dianmen West Street (the west gate to Shichahai Sports School and north of Beihai Park North Gate), Xicheng District, Beijing

Booking Hotline: 8322223, 83227232

Fax: 010-83227754

Show time: 19:30 – 20:30 Daily night

Entrance tickets: Price : 180/280/380 VIP

Children: （ under 1.2 meters high ): free of charge.

How to get there:

Public buses: 118, 609, 111, 107, 701, 623 and 13, get off at the stop of the North Gate to Beihai Park (北海北门站）

Subway:

Line 5 and get off at the stop of Zhang Zhizhong(张志中）, then change for public buses for the North Gate to Beihai Park (北海北门站）

Line 4 and get off at the stop of Pinganli (平安里）， then change for public buses for the North Gate to Beihai Park (北海北门站）

“Shichahai” Kungfu show is a kungfu spectacle, put on mainly by the actors from Shichahai Sports School. “Shichahai” Kungfu show is both a follower and a rival to The Legend of Kung Fu at Red Theatre. The Legend of Kung Fu at Red Theatre has been very successful in the past ten years. However, more than a follower, “Shichahai” Kungfu show is very creactive and innovative, combining many elements into Kungfu show, such as Peking opera, acrobatics, dance, jiujitsu,folk customs and etc.

So seeing “Shichahai” Kungfu show is like taking a Beijing traditional culture tour guiding us to the Kungfu itself and the all aspects of life involved with Kungfu. On your short trip to Beijing, you cannot afford to miss it. Come to the Shichahai area in the daytime for Hutong tour and rewinding yourself hanging around the bar streets here. Then walk to the nearby Shichahai Theatre for the wonderful show, what a full day!

“Shichahai” Kungfu show scenario

A lovely panda couple, named Ai Long and Ai Jie. “Ai” means love. “Long” here refers to star Bruce Lee and Jackie Chen; “Jie” refers to the Kung Fu star Jet Li. They are mad on about Chinese Kung Fu. To experience and learn authentic Chinese Kong Fu from a great master, they come to Beijing. They met the warm and friendly Beijing people, who are actually great Kung Fu masters though they look very ordinary. The couple learn Chinese Kung Fu and enjoy sightseeing and culture here in Beijing.

People are waiting outside the Shichahai Theatre and the show starts at 19:30