Things we love from Beijing
798 Art District
Dashanzi Art District is located in the northeast of central Beijing. The heart of a growing art and culture community in Beijing, 798 Space is the center and the biggest space that provide cultural, artistic and commercial activities in the area. It was designed by the East German’s architects in the Bauhaus style in the [...]
LAN Club
The LAN Club is a breath-taking combination of fine design and architecture, a fusion of thinking and feeling throughout, creating a space to reflect and enhance personal moods and to arouse people’s emotions. LAN Club has crafted a restaurant that celebrates Chinese and western cuisine and pairs it masterfully with wines from around the world. [...]
Forbidden City
Lying at the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City, called Gu Gong in Chinese, was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Now known as the Palace Museum, it is to the north of Tiananmen Square. Surrounded by a six meter deep moat and a ten meter high wall are 9,999 buildings. The [...]
Great Wall
The great Wall of Beijing is an intriguing place to visit or hike for the more adventurous. Most of the sections of Great Wall in Beijing are well-preserved and mainly the remains from the Ming Dynasty, an era of huge construction. The wall goes across the northern part of Beijing for over 600 kilometers with [...]
Congee
If you are sick in Beijing with a stomach problem, what does the doctor recommend you eat? Congee… This dish, which in some ways resembles porridge is actually made of rice, salt and various garnishes such as shredded pork, ginger chicken, preserved eggs! You will find people eating this dish while smoking cigarettes and speaking [...]
Fish balls
Pure genius. These balls are an awesome snack. They will give a hotdog or hamburger a run for their money any day. They are for sale everywhere. No one seems to ever know exactly what type of fish is in them. But nobody cares. 5RMB for four of these balls on a stick. Some of [...]
Shopping malls
Shopping malls are not just places for shopping in Beijing, although it is true that plenty of that goes on in malls too. Malls are somehow part of the community. As well as often housing cinemas, shopping malls also may have sporting facilities – a least two have ice rinks! There are of course restaurants [...]
The street vendors
In a place where space is certainly at a premium, these small business men and women are incredible. Tucked away in tiny nooks and crannies, in little structures, often smaller than the average garden shed, businesses are carrying on, selling goods, providing services. And then there are the mobile vendors – often not strictly legal [...]
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