Blog Tag - Dining Out

What 水 is This 水? How to Order a Cup of Water in The Restaurant
Mandarin Monday is a weekly column where we help you improve your Chinese by detailing learning tips, fun and practical phrases, and trends. Over...
Few and 串儿 Between: Beijing's Best Remaining Barbecue Restaurants With Outdoor Seating
One of our favorite pastimes, and one for which our love will never wane, is munching on chuan'r (串儿, literally "skewer" but a catch-all for barbecue...
Last Night's Chi Fan for Charity Revelry, In Pictures
Over 600 revelers descended upon 56 Beijing fine dining establishments last night to raise money for underprivileged rural teens at the 10th annual...
DP The Gut-Rupturing Peppers Needed to be Polished Off for Prizes at Our Hot Chili Pepper Eating Contest This Saturday
The chili pepper has for millennia stopped humans dead in their tracks. How could such a small specimen present such crippling powers as to leave a...
How to Eat Like Xi Jinping Did in the UK, Without Leaving Beijing
Updted October 29 12:15pm Xi Jinping's recent jaunt over to jolly ol' England where he visited a local pub to eat some fish and chips and drink a...
Want the Perfect Steamed Lobster in Beijing? Head to the Lobster Kitchen
I'm from Boston, and the lobster is to Bostonians what Roast Duck is to Beijingers. And with all due respect to Australians, this is not a lobster...
With the Launch Party Over, Voting in the Burger Cup Set to Begin
[8/23 Update Voting is now live here]: The launch party may be over, but the Burger Battle is just beginning! We're still recovering from the over 2,...
Beijing's Best Restaurants Revealed in the Results of the Beijinger's 2015 Reader Restaurant Awards
It's been another big year for familiar names and also a great year for newcomers in the Beijinger's 2015 Reader Restaurant Awards. After 9,000...
Top Seeds Move On as Burger Cup Gets Down to the Quarterfinals
Our pre-tournament seedings have proven accurate as The Burger Cup rolls on to the quarterfinals, with most top seeds in all four brackets moving on...
Last Chance to Vote Before Field is Cut to 16
We're a week into Round of 32 voting and the field gets cut to 16 later today -- so get in there and vote before 6pm (and look for the Sweet 16 to...
2013 Year in Review: Our 'Best of' Dining Lists for 2013
When Beijingers are not stuck in traffic, we can generally be found stuffing our faces at one of Beijing's tens of thousands of restaurants. And...
Annie's Celebrates 14 Years in Beijing with 10th Location
Annie’s, the homestyle Italian eatery that has stood the test of time over the past 14 years with its combination of Italian basics at reasonable...
Traditional Chinese Manners: How Well Do You Know Them?
Dining out in Beijing's packed local restaurants have given many of us the impression that there's a distinct lack of social graces associated with...
Dianping Dining Deals: Brasserie Flo, Element Fresh, Peter's Tex-Mex Grill
After the deep freeze of Spring Festival, restaurants are pretty keen on getting business going again, so the Dianping vouchers are looking pretty...
2013 Restaurant Week: New Restaurants, New RMB 99 Category
We told you last week in our dining news roundup that this year’s Restaurant Week is set to take place on March 4-10. If you’ve taken part in the...