Delay your Donkey Hash plans a week as the word from Jeff Powell is that both the Sunday brunch and roast at Back Alley Bistro will be starting a week later than expected. Look for it starting the first weekend of March (Sunday, March 3rd).
As the old woman from Gaomiaocun sat in the spring sun looking into the baby's blue eyes, she realized that events of 50 years were both profound & an exercise in futility.
Had dinner last night at Back Alley Bistro. Excellent food very good service. We had the Ahi Tuna salad, scallop fishcakes, Ox-tail with mast potato, Steak Frites, and a side order of the brussell sprouts. Everything was really top quality. Oxtail was truly succulent, and the brussell sprouts were an unexpected delight.
Kind of a wacky place, drinks come from the nail saloon next door, the owners are a bit loud but charming nonetheless, all in all a great new edition to Beijing dining. Just hope they plan on changing the menu for the summer. It was all very heavy meaty food, great for winter but will soon want to eat lighter fare.
A spaceship from the future lands in Beijing. Inside is someone who looks Chinese. But he speaks with no words and proffers only one message before he dies: "Less more need..."
and before you come (or even if you can't make it), do some research on 62 Beijing schooling options for your child by looking at our just-published School Choice Guide, in English and Chinese editions
We just got word that the space formerly known as Zest Urban has undergone a name change to zap urban eatery, so keep in mind when you cruise Xingfu Sancun in mid-March for their planned opening. More on exact dates when we hear confirmation.
Scion,
We'd also be happy to include you on the list of nominators for the pre-ballot round of the next Reader Restaurant Awards. If that's something that you'd be interested in then please get in touch.
How about telling us some of the places you'd like to see nominated?
I'm sure there are some people who might feel they're stuck in the "bubble" you seem to have such scorn for, and who would appreciate a few suggestions.
Once again, the lists are just awful and plagued by bubble-dwellers who seem to think that food only exists in sanlitun and chefs are only foreign. Same horrible places that have zero value over and over and over again. I make it a point to just flat out avoid any place that wins your "awards", as they are basically meaningless and only designate places that laowai love to throw away money at horrible food.
Not being funny but look at the calibre of what the local authorities allow without a potential ban!
Can you see Green Day heading this way during their summer '13 tour , yeah no frickin way.
The censors here remind me of the three brass monkeys.......
Ban video game consoles, cool websites, foreign acts without college degrees (come on). Just take away everybody's fun, so all we can do is eat (which is all the locals do, basically)
If this is true then our home countries shall do the same to visiting Chinese.
Re: Capital Bites: More Deli, Tiny Pizzas, and the Romance ...
Delay your Donkey Hash plans a week as the word from Jeff Powell is that both the Sunday brunch and roast at Back Alley Bistro will be starting a week later than expected. Look for it starting the first weekend of March (Sunday, March 3rd).
Re: Characters Wanted: Enter Our Short Story Contest
As the old woman from Gaomiaocun sat in the spring sun looking into the baby's blue eyes, she realized that events of 50 years were both profound & an exercise in futility.
Re: Characters Wanted: Enter Our Short Story Contest
Amid the forced proximity he became a hostage to her eyes. Then another stop, another crowd piled on and he lost sight of hers.
Re: Sneak Peek: Jeff Powell's Back Alley Bistro
Had dinner last night at Back Alley Bistro. Excellent food very good service. We had the Ahi Tuna salad, scallop fishcakes, Ox-tail with mast potato, Steak Frites, and a side order of the brussell sprouts. Everything was really top quality. Oxtail was truly succulent, and the brussell sprouts were an unexpected delight.
Kind of a wacky place, drinks come from the nail saloon next door, the owners are a bit loud but charming nonetheless, all in all a great new edition to Beijing dining. Just hope they plan on changing the menu for the summer. It was all very heavy meaty food, great for winter but will soon want to eat lighter fare.
Re: Stranger Than Short Fiction: Enter Our Story Contest!
A Beijing horse walks into a bar, sees the bartender is a donkey who is about to pull out a shotgun. Runs out and dials McDonkey SWAT.
Re: Stranger Than Short Fiction: Enter Our Story Contest!
A spaceship from the future lands in Beijing. Inside is someone who looks Chinese. But he speaks with no words and proffers only one message before he dies: "Less more need..."
Re: Characters Wanted: Enter Our Short Story Contest: Dead Meal
Splintered chopsticks cracked the flesh; it hissed and bled grease and reused oil. And there it died on his plate.
Re: Stranger Than Short Fiction: Enter Our Story Contest!
I Am Jack's Black Lungs
I Am Jack's Reduced Personal Space
I Am Jack's Spit On The Ground
I Am Jack's Excited Taste Buds
Re: Talking Tunes: Gear Up for Madlib, or Thee Oh Sees
This blog was corrected: Thee Oh Sees are playing MAO Livehouse tonight and not 2 Kolegas. Apologies.
Re: Stranger Than Short Fiction: Enter Our Story Contest!
I walk past Lao She’s memorial, Mei Lanfang’s house, Qi Baishi’s museum. Everyone has lived here some time or other. Nobody dies in Beijing.
Re: Get Schooled: Learn It All At The School Choice Fair
and before you come (or even if you can't make it), do some research on 62 Beijing schooling options for your child by looking at our just-published School Choice Guide, in English and Chinese editions
English:
http://issuu.com/beijingkids/docs/2013.02_school_choice_guide/1
Chinese:
http://www.issuu.com/jingkids/docs/jingkids_2013.02
Re: Characters Wanted: Enter Our Short Story Contest: Nian War
In the distance it echoes and approaches, contagious noise that lights the sky, waging war against “Nian”, the beast of peace and rest.
Re: Characters Wanted: Enter Our Short Story Contest: MOLES
Dirt clung to their fingernails and wouldn't wash off; still they tunneled each day without fail, through clumps of soil and crowds men.
Re: New Year, New Eats: Zest Urban To Open in March
We just got word that the space formerly known as Zest Urban has undergone a name change to zap urban eatery, so keep in mind when you cruise Xingfu Sancun in mid-March for their planned opening. More on exact dates when we hear confirmation.
Exactly 140 characters
You guys looted it, he spat. We were weak then.
No, said I, I am Serbian. Where the US bombed your embassy.
A cuckoo sang over Yuanming yuan.
Re: Time To Represent: Vote In The Reader Restaurant Awards
Scion,
We'd also be happy to include you on the list of nominators for the pre-ballot round of the next Reader Restaurant Awards. If that's something that you'd be interested in then please get in touch.
Re: Time To Represent: Vote In The Reader Restaurant Awards
Scion,
How about telling us some of the places you'd like to see nominated?
I'm sure there are some people who might feel they're stuck in the "bubble" you seem to have such scorn for, and who would appreciate a few suggestions.
Re: Time To Represent: Vote In The Reader Restaurant Awards
Once again, the lists are just awful and plagued by bubble-dwellers who seem to think that food only exists in sanlitun and chefs are only foreign. Same horrible places that have zero value over and over and over again. I make it a point to just flat out avoid any place that wins your "awards", as they are basically meaningless and only designate places that laowai love to throw away money at horrible food.
Re: Rock Off: Visiting Musicians To Need College Degrees?
Not being funny but look at the calibre of what the local authorities allow without a potential ban!
Can you see Green Day heading this way during their summer '13 tour , yeah no frickin way.
The censors here remind me of the three brass monkeys.......
Re: Rock Off: Visiting Musicians To Need College Degrees?
I meant to say that I agree with TRUCULENT.
Ban video game consoles, cool websites, foreign acts without college degrees (come on). Just take away everybody's fun, so all we can do is eat (which is all the locals do, basically)
If this is true then our home countries shall do the same to visiting Chinese.