2010 Feb 11 New Food Fight!!
Last week we challenged users to pen five restaurant reviews to win ski passes for Nanshan ski resort. Three users met the challenge and earned themselves a day on the slopes.
Our winners are: bucktownbang, ting.ting, and Travellor.
Our favorite write up came from ting.ting, lamenting the effects age has on us all with her review of Bar Blu:
“At this place recently I realised for first time I am getting old.
1. So many stairs to climb
2. So many broken bottles and trash on stairs
3. Go in the door and smoke hits my face
4. Loud music, so no chance to chat with friends
5. It looks like all kids here getting very drunk (I worry how they will go down the stairs later)
but...........
everybody looks happy and dancing so I decide its just me getting old - I hope they have a great time and I find somewhere else.”
Hope you’re not too infirm to put on a pair of skis ting.ting.
Congrats to our three winners.
And now for the Chunjie Food Fight. It’s still cold, many places are shut, all your Chinese friends have gone home for the week – so now’s your chance to sit down and do some serious reviewing!
The first five users to post reviews of Sanlitun venues THAT HAVE NOT BEEN REVIEWED BEFORE each win themselves a copy of Eileen Wen Mooney’s Beijing Eats, the essential guide to dining in the capital.
Reviewing is easy – just register as a user, find the restaurant in our directory and click “Add a Review” to the right of the restaurant write-up. Winners will be announced here on the Beijinger blog.
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