Plan your Beijing tour? If you travel Beijing in July and August, the Beijing’s rainy season, you will expect muggy weather – hot, humid and feverish. But your encounter with the uncomfortable weather is offset by colorful activities on Beijing summer’s evenings – Bars, Cafes, Night Snacks Markets and etc. Drinking cold beer is a…
If you are on a business travel to Beijing and looking for a good place for leisure dining or an ideal site for commercial banquets, come to Shichahai Guildhall. Shichahai refers to the area around the three lakes – Qianhai Lake, Houhai Lake and Xihai Lake. Shichahai Guildhall is named after Shichahai since it is…
One old saying goes like that: eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a queen and supper like a poor man. In the light of eating healthy, a good and balanced breafast keeps people in good shape to start one day’s life and work. Dragged by a quick pace of life in a big city like…
In Beijing, like other cities in China, each neighborhood has its own food market of various sizes. In these markets, you buy fresh fruits, vegetables, freshwater food, seafood, meat cuts, stable food and a full range of Chinese cooking supplies. The majority of the grocery markets start around 7:00am in the morning. Local residents and expats often to their local…
Are you searching for hotpot restaurants during your Beijing trip? Haungcheng Laoma is highly recommended. Huangcheng Laoma is the brand name of one of the best hotpot restaurants in China. Huangcheng Laomao literally means “Imperial City Old Mother” in Chinese. It was first founded by Mrs.Liao Huanying in Chengdu 1986. Her first hotpot restaurant was located in the…
China has a rich eating culture. One important aspect of the eating culture is its networking function. To close a deal, we eat; to negotiate, we eat; after a meeting or conference, we eat; family or friends getting together. we eat and the eating list could be much longer. Chinese people have a rich variety of reasons…
Important Notice Wangfujing Night Food Street is closed and not available now. The food street is officially known as “Donghuamen Night Food Street”(东华门美食坊夜市). If you still want to experience the local exotic snack food, you may go to Wangfujing Snack Street instead. ————————————————————————————————————————— If you ramble along Wangfujing Street in the evening during your Beijing…
Today we have our second potluck lunch in office. Everybody brings their favorite recipes, which they have cooked the day before. Now all these contained dishes are piled up waiting to be warmed in the microwave oven. At 12:30pm, we stop working and come to our meeting room, also serving as our dining room during the lunch time. All the warmed dishes are placed…