Blog Tag - Qianmen
Going south from Qianmen, aka Zhengyangmen – or north up to the gate if you’re strolling along the Central Axis – you’ll stumble across a few artery-...
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...
Stepping inside the new and extremely ambitious Qianmen cocktail lounge Catail Qian Yard left us feeling that the cat had well and truly got our...
Restaurant owner and chef Paca Li's tenacity is one of the great underdog stories of Beijing's recent history. After getting her start slinging...
Qianmen’s days as a tourist trap are numbered. Once painstakingly avoided by Beijing expats because of its crowded commercial shopping streets and...
You know you’re doing something special when critics call your band "the missing link between Public Enemy and Louis Armstrong.” Eight-piece New...
As if it wasn’t enough to win the illustrious Thelonius Monk International Trumpet Competition, Chicago jazz star Marquis Hill can also boast about...
When Norah Jones sings one of your songs, and you win a Grammy in the process, it might seem like you have it made. However, when songwriter and...
He's collaborated with some of the biggest names in hip-hop and R&B, such as Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar, Common, and Erykah Badu. But Bilal is no...
China’s biggest flagship Starbucks is now in the capital, located in the famous Qianmen area. Opened on Jun 29, the three-story café occupies 1040...
Between the hotels and Beijing's more creative restaurants, there are a fair amount of chic afternoon teas to be found around the city, but can any...
Finally, after 10 years, Mandarin Oriental will open its first hotel in Beijing. At last.
But it's not the Mandarin Oriental hotel you're thinking of...
It doesn’t take long for a conversation with Bruce Connolly to veer into a maze of tangents, akin to walking a winding route through the hutongs he...
Champions of Beijing’s traditional foods lost a key figure last week when third generation founder of laozihao (time-honored brand) restaurant Baodu...
Even a short trek through Qianmen’s wide, but cluttered streets warrants a spa excursion. It’s only appropriate then that a former Han Dynasty...