Korean singer doing Chinese versions of English carols in small-city China as Santa and a helper hand out gifts and apples laser-printed with Merry Christmas.
Aka unexpected Christmas Eve fun. And a nice gesture by our hosts.
#christmasinchina
Christmas in Beijing.
Christmas decorations aplenty in the Sanlitun Courtyard area aka SantaLiTun these days.
Plus a three-day 100-plus-booth Christmas market going on all weekend.
(I post regularly re Beijing at instagram.com/beijingboyce/.)
#beijing #sanlitun #santalitun #christmasinbeijing
Beijing Moon. 2 AM on a crisp cold Saturday morning.
#beijing #beijingmoon #beijinglife
One of my favorite Beijing photos. This day in 2020 just as the snow started to fall during Santacon.
#throwbackthursdy #santacon #santaconbj #santaconbeijIng #christmasinbeijing #beijingboyce
Kung Fu Fries in Beijing posted quite specific cooking temperatures and techniques on the shop wall.
Sanlitun SOHO, B1 Level...
TWE / Penfolds is dropping nearly USD20 million on a Ningxia winery and I got *lots* to say about that, but a better story is a bunch of boutique Chinese producers are crashing Singapore today with their quirky wines.
www.grapewallofchina.com/2024/12/10/w...
#chinesewine #singapore
yep. spicy! these were just samples, works in progress I guess, not on the market yet.
Chinese whisky rising. Laizhou is a leader among dozens of local distilleries popping up in China.
Tried a half-dozen tipples yesterday, including aged in Rioja, Sherry and Huangjiu casks. Plus, gin. Intriguing stuff.
Key issue will be how and to what degree China distilleries localize production.
Sunday afternoon in Beijing's CBD.
4:05 PM. Just 45 minutes later and the sun was down...
#beijing #beijingwinter #beijinglife
Rabies in Beijing!
An eBook on said affliction distributed in our housing complex, including advice on dog care and disposing of dead animals.
I also looked up data of Beijing rabies cases over the past few decades. 95%+ were linked to dogs. Details here:
www.besjournal.com/en/article/d...
25 years. 10,000 students. Countless China wine lessons.
A wine appreciation class begun in 1998 and now linked to 19 Beijing universities has matured into a record of wine trends.
Prof Ma Huiqin talks today's drinkers, red vs white wine, local labels & more.
grapewallofchina.com/2024/12/04/q...
Ended up there twice this week. For pizza at Fiume and gin tonics at Iberico, both top-notch. And dinner at a Japanese restaurant just a short walk away. Nice area for a post-dinner stroll.
I love it. And once one gets walking, one warms up nicely. *And* now the air is so much better than a dozen years ago.
Fun Beijing walking tour.
Forbidden City. Nanluoguxiang. Gulou. Houhai. Plus stops at Temple Restaurant Beijing, The Merchants, The Factory and more.
Flashback to this year's Golden Week.
#beijing #forbiddencity #nanluoguxiang #gulou #houhai
Cold crisp clear days in Beijing.
I endured the era of the Air Quality Index being 'broken' all the time and appreciate how much better things are now.
Pics / clips of walks from Rosewood Hotel to Sanlitun, plus Tuanjiehu Park, on Wednesday, and the Liangma River area on Thursday.
#beijing
Sunday night book search in Beijing.
(This spot was once Poacher's Bar.)
Two sprawling floors of books plus a cafe, reading area and gift shop. Just up from Tongli Studio in Sanlitun.
#beijing #sanlitun #beijjnglife
Kao Leng Mian 烤冷面 aka Grilled Cold Noodles.
Street version checklist. Double spatula. Check. Sauce paintbrush. Basket of eggs. Check. Check. Weird meat cartridges. Do not check.
Got mine without meat and with extra spice.
#2019 #Beijing #ThrowbackThursday
Beaujolais Nouveau options for Beijing tomorrow.
La Maison Lyonnais, La Taverne, uh-huh wine bar.
I want to try that Orange Nouveau.
#beaujolaisnouveau #beijing
good windsurfing in penghu.
Acquired taste? Hot & Sour Lemon-Braised Chicken Feet potato chips.
Part of a big sale on Lay's chips at our HotMaxx discount shop in Beijing.
(Grab the Lay's truffle chips if you see them!)
#lays #beijing #culturalrelativism
Beijing's 'Hutong Winemaker'
For ~30 years, Zhang Bingzhai has made wine at home, now near The Forbidden City, earning the 90-point scores major producers seek. He also made wine with ginseng and oyster shells!
A deep dive into his three daring decades:
www.grapewallofchina.com/2024/11/11/c...
Can I add The Big Lebowski to that list?
The rise of thousand-dollar wine in China.
Wine sales keep falling but local producers keep adding pricy labels, some over USD1000.
Giving hope?
The current status-based buyers, newbies from China's six million millionaires & rising pride in local wine.
www.grapewallofchina.com/2024/11/17/h...
Busy busy. Sanlitun at seven last night.
Hard to believe two years ago on this day we saw far fewer people and faced heavy pandemic rules, from regular testing to restaurant restrictions to potential lockdowns. Rarely hear mention of it now...
#beijingtraffic #sanlitun #covi̇d19 #beijinglife
One-man one-stop repair shop in central Beijing.
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom etc.
Simple and delicious winery breakfast.
Just beyond Beijing in Huailai County.
Domaine Franco Chinois began as joint China-France scientific project in the late 90s, then commercialized and is now among the country's best wineries.
#chinesewine #breakfast #comfortfood
Goodbye Apollo Beijing.
And thanks for two years of top-notch food and drink.
Times are tough and a key decision is whether to continue in the usually slower winter season or cut losses now.
In any case, Apollo's next-door sibling, Eastend Grocery, will stay open.
Some Apollo highlights:
Seasons shifting in our Sanlitun neighborhood in Beijing.
#sanlitun #beijing #autumncolors
Beijing at twilight. In Sanlitun Courtyard.
The restaurant sign is for Yi Lau Yi.
High ceilings. Over 100 dishes. Friendly staff. One of my favorites.
#beijing #beijingsunset
