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Despite the Occasional Airpocalypse, Beijing’s Air Is on a Path To Steady Improvement Mar 16, 2021 10:09 am | 1 comment | 410 reads Yes, we get it, we’ve had a horrendous couple of weeks here in the capital, capping yesterday’s disastrously bad pollution that had air monitors around the city just up and quitting in disgust. But things are getting better, I swear! Just take a look at the cold hard facts: Beijing now ranks a mere #241 on the list of world’s worst cities for air pollution. For a long time, we Beijingers have loved to lament ...

Tong Ren Tang Artfully Combines Espresso, TCM Herbs at Their Coffee Shop Jan 30, 2021 11:39 am | 1 comment | 563 reads China’s 352-year-old TCM clinic Tong Ren Tang has taken a page from the Starbucks playbook and launched an upscale coffee shop – and surprise: it’s really good! The granddaddy of all Chinese medicine shops has a history that stretches back to the 1600s, and many of its locations look like they were last renovated about then. Even their dolled-up storefronts in tourist areas are designed to appeal more to the granny set, with ...

We’re seeking three foreigners to be featured in three short Beijing tourism-related videos to be shot prior to Chinese New Year.

Party at Home this NYE with Hulu’s Takeout Cocktails Dec 31, 2020 10:30 am | 3 comments | 243 reads The recent outbreak of Covid-19 in Beijing has given us second thoughts about encouraging everyone to party their brains out in crowded bars and clubs this New Year's Eve, easily one of the biggest party nights of the year in Beijing. Instead, it looks like many of us a party at home with a small group of friends or just your family (at least those of drinking age). You could simply get a few bottles of bubbly from Jenny Lou’s or Cheers or any o...