Interesting. Thanks for taking the time to share the info, admin.

WJH: Legit question. Here is the answer(s):

1. We like the survey to target laowai a little more because we think they have more experience eating burgers. Let's face facts: if we scientifically attempted a poll of the entire population of Beijing on what they feel the best burger is, the winner is going to be inevitably McDonald's.

2. We believe almost every college-educated Chinese person in Beijing has enough English reading skills to fill out our survey, which is written in very simple English. If they did not, they would not have been able to pass the standard college entrance test.

3. Our surveys have been victimized in the past by ballot stuffing, which is most often outsourced to Chinese people working low-wage jobs, often outside of Beijing. These people are less likely to read English and therefore the lack of a Chinese interface helps us eliminate or at least slow down their ballot stuffing.

4. We intentionally make our surveys long and detailed. Yes, This deters some legitimate voters who do not wish to spend the additional five minutes it takes to fill out the survey once. A long survey really angers those that intend to stuff the ballot box hundreds of times -- these people will have to spend hours and hours in their attempts to cheat.

A few sincere questions for the folks at the Beijinger: Is there a reason why there's no Chinese-language voting interface? Is English the only language that matters when tabulating burger votes? Was a Chinese interface never considered? Was it considered and abandoned?

I was at the burger cup last weekend and most people were Chinese. Do they have to be able navigate an English-only survey (plus a few cheeky jokes) for their opinion to be valid? I'm wondering how many votes/opinions regarding the city's best burgers are not being calculated because you can't be bothered to translate a very simple online interface. I think of places like Katchup, run entirely by Chinese staff, who continually participate and do well in this competition, but are unable to communicate to their Chinese customers how to click in all the right places.

I get it. You're an English language magazine/website. But you frequently provide information in both English and Chinese. Why not for these burger and pizza cup events? Seeing as we live in China, and the majority of a restaurant's customers are Chinese, why wouldn't you want to include the primary customer demographic?

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I hate to be the guy who complains because his bar isn't on the list, but I am legitimately surprised Lush (or the Lush/Pyro one-two punch) isn't included. It's older than every bar on this list save maybe Centro (and Paddy's is close), and it has some of the best and longest running events in the city (and up until I think Great Leap took the mantle, had won the most bar and club awards over the history of the Beijinger's contest.) It's not the swankiest and doesn't have the newest, hottest cocktails, but it's for damn sure one of the single most fun bars in the city, and is rammed full every night of the week, year round. For a bar that's coming up on 15 years and still going strong, it deserves at least an honorable mention, probably with the caveat that you would be heading into college student central.

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Good walks indeed. I particularly like Dashilar and wil check out Tai Miao.

Cool, let us know how you find it.

i dunno, kyle - i usually sip a GLENDRONACH scotch&water - or a GLB HONEY - i always see the ghost of the GREAT SHARK HUNT after a few margaritas in C.AGAVE - the only place i drink em

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