Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai cruised into the semi-finals of the US Open at Flushing Meadows last night with a straight sets win over 17-yera-old Belinda Bencic ending an agonising wait to make a Grand Slam last four.

To celebrate her achivement, we dusted off an old interview we did with her from our April 2013 edition of the Beijinger in which she tells us about her various uniforms down the years.

I was born a carnivore. Not an omnivore, mind you – a carnivore. Growing up, I’d go out of my way to avoid vegetables, picking them out of dishes or picking around them to get at the good stuff.

I wondered why anyone would eat vegetables when there existed a better, meatier form of food. Like, why drink Diet Coke when there’s regular Coke? To me, vegetables were a last resort, to be consumed only if meat were somehow unavailable. The very existence of salad puzzled me.

Hidden in an unassuming residential community just north of the Yuyang Hotel off of Xindong Lu, it is admittedly unlikely you would ever accidentally stumble across O-toku Sake Ba [sic] (大德酒场). If the name sounds familiar, you may have visited the Lucky Street branch, which has been open for three years. If happen to find yourself in the Xinyuan Xili neighborhood, you will be rewarded with a solid Japanese meal at reasonable prices. 

Hawthorn apples are found in many forms. Sometimes in naturally dried cuts, sometimes jellied, and occasionally covered in crystalline sugar. We checked out the good, the bad and the sickly.

With the weather getting noticeably cooler over the past few days, we imagine you'll want to grab any opportunity to eke out the last few weeks of summer. Luckily, there's still a couple of events around town that will help you do just that. 

England. Germany. China. The stamps on Jim Kroft's passport keep accumulating, but the singer-songwriter has covered far more emotional ground. Kroft tells us about that journey, ahead of the start of his September residency at Gulou's Jianghu Bar.

Thirty-two of Beijing’s best burger joints went down fighting last week as the field of 64 in the Beijinger’s annual Burger Cup was cut in half in heated competition.