Beijing always seems to keep us on our toes, one way or another. This week we question how clean our dry-cleaned clothes are, wonder why we would want to get deliveries at a subway station and lament the fate of cats, dogs and bears.

If you're suffering after a tough New Year, we're here to help soothe the pain. Take it easy and enjoy this rundown of some of the most-watched, strangest and funniest videos to hit China's streaming sites in the year just gone by.

Surf’s up: the Beijing Government will launch a new, free wi-fi network called “My Beijing” later this month. According to China.org (via Techcrunch), the plan is to “provide 2Mbps broadband WiFi to approximately 60 percent of Beijing through some 90,000 access points that the municipal government plans implement over the next few years.”

The 2Mbps broadband service will require users to input their China Unicom, China Telecom or China Mobile numbers to obtain a password good for three hours of access. Considered a pilot program, the network will be free to users for three years, but may eventually become a fee-based service (details TBD).

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In my very first dispatch as a wet-behind-the-hearing-holes dining editor, I made passing mention to my raging McDonald's delivery addiction. Lest you get the impression, dear reader, that I spend my days holed up in my room with the shades drawn and the lights off, subsisting solely on a diet of McDonald's, Tim Tams and reruns of the Eurovision song contest, please let me assure you that you are wholly mistaken: there is also cake.

Here are a few of our favorite pushers of hand-delivered diet doom.

Silicon Hutong, a.k.a. Beijing-based corporate communications consultant David Wolf, has a post summing up a chorus of skepticism about Facebook’s chances in China should they pursue a partnership with Baidu.

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