Blog Tag - The Great Brickening

EAT: Rager Pie Returns for Delivery, The Aperas with La Social, Vegan Dinner Party & iAnimal VR Experience
Everyone's favorite pie store Rager Pie is back having been bricked up by the hutong onslaught. The team will now be on hand to deliver pies and...
From the Frontlines: Fate of Many Fangjia Hutong Establishments Remains Unclear
Following yesterday's initial day of bricking up on Fangjia Hutong, we were extremely relieved to find that not all had been lost, though it's...
Aotu Studio Aims to Reopen in August; Hosts Demolition Themed Performance Art In the Interim
While brick laying and demolition have laid waste to many a hutong institution as of late, one of those alleyway venues is hoping to turn strewn...
Slow Boat Taproom Tapped to be Shut Indefinitely
Sad news, Beijing drinking buddies. After five years in the business of pouring delicious cold pints and serving one of the best burgers Beijing has...
Hutong Page Turner: Loreli Co-Founders Dedicate New Zine to Bricked Up Alleys, Submissions Accepted Until June 15
Kerryn Leitch and Amy Daml aren't ready to figuratively turn the page on the hutongs just yet, though they are working to help Beijingers literally...
Hutong Survivor: Ron Mexico Moves to New, Larger, Angry-Neighbor-less Spot
It's dire and desperate times in Beijing right now; we're losing Más this Sunday (Apr 30), we've already lost Tiki Bungalow, and Fangjia Hutong is on...
Dirty Bar Street to Be Cleaned Up By Beijing's Ongoing Brick Laying
Brick piles have been spotted yet again in a popular Beijing alley, leaving owners of its street level businesses to sweat. This time it's Sanlitun...
Fangjia to be Bricked Up Later this Week, Jiaodaokou Toutiao Currently Being Bricked Up, Xingfucun Knocked Down
While Fangjia Hutong's bar and restaurant owners expected today to be the day that the red bricks took up unnecessary space blocking their windows...
Next in The Cleaning Up Campaign: Wudaoying Hutong Takes a Hit, Invaded by Yellow-Hatted Men
In the latest rounds of bricking up the hutongs and shaking things up, Wudaoying Hutong seems to have taken a hit. The alleyway, popular with...
R Find Out What Businesses Survived Sanlitun's Recent Tumultuous Construction
After swaths of construction took place in the Sanlitun area earlier this week, Turkish Doner and Andy's Craft Sausages are among the businesses that...
Another Brick in the Wall: Chatter About More and More Business Killing Barriers Intensifies
Speculation is running rampant after it became known earlier this week that a wall will be erected on the Sanlitun North strip where Cheers, Turkish...
Sanlitun Strip North of Taikoo Li Getting Bricked Up Thursday Morning
Beijing's relentless pursuit of turning everything we once knew into a gleaming mall claims another victim Thursday as the strip of shops,...
11 Wild Cultures Ain’t Get You A New Successful Brewpub, Wilderness Brew
Another week, another brewpub – can you feel my excitement? Bare with me if I sound a little done in but it's places like the newly opened Wilderness...
R Andy's Craft Sausages SLT Stand to Close Within a Month as Construction Near Yashow Ramps Up
Within the next month Sanlitun authorities are planning to build a brick wall on the small street west of the former Yashow Market (known in Chinese...
Nanluogu Xiang Reopens in Part, But May Never Be the Same
After being closed for several weeks for repaving, a good chunk of Nanluogu Xiang has reopened to pedestrians. Those looking to venture north and...