January 2009

agenda January 8th to January 21st

For the latest agenda, we sought refuge from the financial blues by seeking out Beijing’s best happy hours for our cover feature. We also round up Shunyi’s best restaurants, Beijing-style hot pot restaurants and a selection of Beijing art galleries. In Spotlights, we talk with Will Yorke from Vineyard Cafe, co-owner of Salud and Ginkgo, Nicolas Pellissier, and Inspired’s Jasmine Keel. January is a relatively quiet month in Beijing, but as ever, you can always rely on agenda to keep your diary packed, with full and detailed Day-by-Day event listings for the best happenings in the city!

beijingkids January-February 2009

beijingkids 2009 Best Family Eats Hits the Stands

Dine out all year long with beijingkids! This month we bring you the city’s 54 best restaurants for families. Our team of reviewers rated restaurants on everything from whether the aisles are stroller-friendly and if they have playrooms to whether the non-smoking sections are really non-smoking.

Spring Festival starts on January 26, and with the holiday comes Beijing’s famed temple fairs. Check out Amani Zhang’s guide to the temples fairs, where you can find kung fu performances, acrobats, the city’s best stilt-walkers, reenactments from Chinese literature, and even a high-tech celebration in Zhongguancun.

Elsewhere in the issue, we show you where to hit the slopes, whether you’re a snow bunny or a ski whiz. Imogen Kandel looks into your alternative birthing options in the city, from water birth to going drug-free. And Jessica Pan talks to author Zhang Lijia talks about how she went from factory girl to journalist and how she feels about her daughters reading her memoir.

the Beijinger January 2009

How time flies when you live in Beijing. One day you’re at the Bird’s Nest eating ramen straight out of the bag, and next you find it’s the Year of the Ox and you’re still eating ramen straight out of the bag. But why would you still be eating ramen straight out of the bag when there are so many new restaurants opening in Beijing? Global financial crisis, shlobal financial shmeisis – people gotta eat! So get your hands on the latest issue of the Beijinger and find out what Panino Giusto, YellowStone, Shiro Matsu and others are serving up.

The new openings just keep on a-coming, with shops like Icon X and World Health Store now open to the public, as well as up-and-coming bars like Mao Mao Chong and Provincia ready and waiting for you to get your drink on. If it’s live action you seek, there’s plenty of that in January, too – starting with Robots in Disguise, D’Julz, Lisa Ono, we are Enfant Terrible, D.O.A., the Hong Kong Philharmonic, DJ Vadim and MC Yarah Bravo all moseying through town at some point or another. Plus, ‘tis the time to take part in snow sports; you can read all about the annual Redbull Nanshan Open, as well as how else and where else you can dig into that powder … all in the latest issue of the Beijinger!

45,000 copies of the January issue are out around town; should you be unable to locate one, contact our distribution department at distribution@thebeijinger.com or download the PDF version of the issue below: