admin's picture admin Submitted by Guest on Mon, 11/21/2011 - 14:15

btw here's who is still alive in the Pizza Cup challenge to win a pizza party for 10 ...

Still Alive

Sida: Kro's Nest over Gung Ho! Pizza
Hills: Kro's Nest over Gung Ho! Pizza
fishsh: Kro's Nest over Gung Ho! Pizza

TX_Chick: Gung Ho! Pizza over Kro's Nest
MattyHar: Gung Ho! Pizza over Kro's Nest
ChinaJosh: Gung Ho! Pizza over The Tree
Badr: Gung Ho! Pizza over The Tree

peterm325: The Tree over Gung Ho! Pizza
rjing14: The Tree over Gung Ho! Pizza

dina88: Hutong Pizza over Gung Ho! Pizza

anniebenben: Sureno over The Tree

biglebufski: La Pizza over Gung Ho! Pizza

Prognosticators that have been overthrown:

joshong: Kro's Nest over Annie's (Annie's gone)
CJ750: Kro's Nest over Annie's (Annie's gone)
Octorok: Kro's Nest over Bang! Bang! Pizza (Bang! Bang! gone)
SashaBeijing: Kro's Nest over Nasca (Nasca gone)
Happysimin: The Tree over Annie's (Annie's gone)
Evenflow: The Tree over Annie's (Annie's gone)
chickenspider: Hutong Pizza over Tube Station (Tube Station gone)
SteveW: Bang! Bang! over La Pizza (Bang! Bang! gone)

Books by current and former Beijinger staffers

http://astore.amazon.com/truerunmedia-20

admin's picture admin Submitted by Guest on Mon, 11/21/2011 - 13:58

Still alive in the Pizza Cup challenge to win a pizza party for 10 ...

Sida: Kro's Nest over Gung Ho! Pizza
Hills: Kro's Nest over Gung Ho! Pizza
fishsh: Kro's Nest over Gung Ho! Pizza

TX_Chick: Gung Ho! Pizza over Kro's Nest
MattyHar: Gung Ho! Pizza over Kro's Nest
ChinaJosh: Gung Ho! Pizza over The Tree
ChinaJosh: Gung Ho! Pizza over The Tree
Badr: Gung Ho! Pizza over The Tree

peterm325: The Tree over Gung Ho! Pizza
rjing14: The Tree over Gung Ho! Pizza

dina88: Hutong Pizza over Gung Ho! Pizza

anniebenben: Sureno over The Tree

biglebufski: La Pizza over Gung Ho! Pizza

Prognosticators that have been overthrown:

joshong: Kro's Nest over Annie's (Annie's gone)
CJ750: Kro's Nest over Annie's (Annie's gone)
Octorok: Kro's Nest over Bang! Bang! Pizza (Bang! Bang! gone)
SashaBeijing: Kro's Nest over Nasca (Nasca gone)
Happysimin: The Tree over Annie's (Annie's gone)
Evenflow: The Tree over Annie's (Annie's gone)
chickenspider: Hutong Pizza over Tube Station (Tube Station gone)
SteveW: Bang! Bang! over La Pizza (Bang! Bang! gone)

Books by current and former Beijinger staffers

http://astore.amazon.com/truerunmedia-20

snackmonkey's picture snackmonkey Submitted by Guest on Mon, 11/21/2011 - 12:53

@Huanchu - we did give the Veggie Table & Pure Lotus a call to ask before compiling our posts, but they both said no. However, I'm sure that Beijing's vegetarians will be no less thankful this year, with or without tofurkey Smile

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Iain S's picture Iain S Submitted by Guest on Mon, 11/21/2011 - 12:28

Thanks to all who entered! After much deliberation, we're giving the prize to Herbz for a credible pun and for having a dig at Coldplay.

Herbz, a bottle of wine will soon be yours - one of our marketing team will be in touch.

The Cleaver Quarterly: A new print magazine taking a playful look at Chinese food as a global phenomenon. Issue 1 out May 2014

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ataraxia's picture ataraxia Submitted by Guest on Mon, 11/21/2011 - 05:18

I’m immensely thankful that I don’t have to spend this holiday with my boyfriend’s parents. Never mind the fact that they’ve refused to meet me in the past three years—the feeling is mutual. They’ve told my boyfriend that an extracurricular event was more important than attending my birthday, because “you guys are going to live to be 80 anyway with today’s technology!” Other gems include declarations that I’m a fail at life for taking a couple years off before going to medical school, and insinuations that he can’t visit me in China because it’s “a dangerous third-world country.” Hello, you’re OK with regular vacations to CALCUTTA, the slum capital of India! Even the New York Times’ euphemistic travel writers could only say that it’s “filthy gorgeous.”

Also, they’re horrible cooks, and miserly to boot, so Thanksgiving would probably consist of vomit-like vindaloos, deep-fried turkey meatballs, and Entenmann’s.

nycwonderwoman's picture nycwonderwoman Submitted by Guest on Mon, 11/21/2011 - 01:01

@hitme. Who cares about your opinion. Overpriced, eeeeek me think not! Moving forward, if you want overpriced wine bars, try Terroir: The Elitist Wine Bar for Everyone! Or, Gottino, Bar Jamon, Morrell, The Waverly Inn, Babbo, Bottega Del Vino, Felice, and the list goes on and on.

Beijing Welcomes You, Bar Veloce!!!!!!!!

Lu Yan

HuanChu's picture HuanChu Submitted by Guest on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 23:52

So is no restaurant in town offering vegetarian Thanksgiving dinners this year, or TBJ just had no one who cares enough to cover them?

A very smart man wrote:
Remember, the courage to be wrong is paramount in importance to the ability to be right.

lovelymaid's picture lovelymaid Submitted by Guest on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 22:38

well ok, my half-brother (brother from another father) and I were at Xiu a week ago with some friends. We all were really drunk and went our separate ways to hit on people. I was getting frustrated with the clowns at the bar until in a dark corner I stumbled upon this tall handsome gentleman. He was charming, funny and we really clicked. We began sucking each others' faces quite ferociously. It was amazing, until my girl pal grabbed my arm and shook me while yelling 'why are your kissing your brother?!?' I freaked out, any my half-bro who also was really drunk realized what he did and flipped out too - running from the room puking. we haven't been able to look each other in the eye let alone talk to each other since. Needless to say, thanksgiving is going to be pretty damn awkward....

Herbz's picture Herbz Submitted by Guest on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 11:19

osamabinladen wrote:
everyone loves a conspiracy.

ha ha

Like this one?

Actual airfield
http://maps.google.com/?ll=24.260894,120.618639&spn=0.078094,0.065231&om=1&t=k&z=14&vpsrc=6

Mockup
http://maps.google.com/?ll=40.377871,99.88203&spn=0.065254,0.065231&om=1&t=k&z=14&vpsrc=6

ataraxia's picture ataraxia Submitted by Guest on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 19:14

A cheap store-bought Stop and Shop mini blueberry pie I won on Pi Day in 7th grade algebra class. I found out that day that we were having a pi-memorization contest, and being a competitive Asian nerd, I spent free moments of the rest of the day frantically memorizing pi. Doughy crust and cornstarch filling never tasted so sweet.