Blog Tag - DIY

Why the Bathroom in Your Chinese Apartment Smells Awful (And How to Fix It)
Nope, your poops aren't suddenly way smellier now that you live in China (well actually, maybe they are). And it's not just you: bathrooms often do...
Become Your Own Chef With These DIY Meal Kits
Dine-in services can be great, but DIY restaurant kits are a super cool foodie activity that you can do at home. This, given the current situation...
CNY Bartender: the Saigon Fizz, Susu's Effervescent Antidote to Cold Winters
Thirsty over the holiday? Grab a cocktail shaker and get to mixing with CNY Bartender, featuring a new drink each day from a Beijing-based mixologist...
More Than Art, More Than Books, More Than Art Books: abC Art Book Fair Beijing Takes Over Today Art Museum, Jul 9-11
Back for its sixth installment this weekend, abC Art Book Fair is – Jul 9-11 at Today Art Museum – is bringing together a wildly diverse group of...
Me Market Embraces the Power of Personal Passion Projects
Despite everything that the last year of the pandemic took away from us, one of the things it did give many of us was time at home. Lots and lots (...
The Battleground Hidden Within Chaowai SOHO
This great blue ball hurdling through the cosmos can hardly be regarded as a peaceful paradise as long as wars and skirmishes abound on its soil and...
Trivial Merchandise Shopping List: Tacky, Sassy, Patchy
Where can you buy that? You already know the answer: Taobao. But navigating China’s biggest ecommerce platform can be a nightmare for foreigners, so...
Step Into Unknown: Explore Your Undiscovered Creative Side In These Studios
Let's be real, depending on how you spent your quarantine you may have reached the limits of your love for DIY projects sometime around mid-March,...
May Day Bagging: Fantastic Reusable Bags and Where to Find Them
Though we are still waiting for the nationwide plastic straw ban to be implemented, several related consumer-facing environmental regulations will be...
Can DIY Homemade Masks Protect Us From Coronavirus?
This post comes courtesy of Smart Air, a social enterprise and registered B-Corp dedicated to helping people in China breathe clean air without...
Go Big or Go Boom, Bake Your Own Rice Cooker Cake (Bomb)
Everyone nowadays likes to claim that they are a foodie and flood their social media accounts with beautifully retouched pictures of food... but the...
Save Your Rambos With These Easy Homemade Cleaners
Household items such as baking soda and vinegar work as effectively as shop-bought cleaners, if not more so, and cost next to nothing. You can even...
Bye, Bye Limescale! This Baijiu Lookalike Will Transform Your Bathroom
It's clear, it's pungent and it will knock your socks off. The powerhouse, limescale-fighting, magical potion of your dreams has been hiding out in...
Starting From Scratch: Tales of Humble Beginnings From Beijing’s F&B Scene
Veterans of the food and beverage (F&B) industry are no strangers to starting projects from scratch. However, that “from square one” work ethic...
Seedy Cinema: Catch Screening of Local Indie Flick "Into the Belly of Beijing" at Yue Space, Jun 25
Get ready to feast your eyes on Beijing's seedy side. On June 25, Yue Space will host a screening of Into the Belly of Beijing, a DIY film set in the...