EAT: Your bite-sized guide to the best eats to be had in Beijing this week.

[UPDATE: Dec 28, 11.30am] Yesterday, BHG reached out to us to explain what was going on in the photo that our witness supplied, and it seems like a reasonable explanation for what appeared to be staff tampering with vitamin supplements.  

In this column, Beijing Pics of the Week, our in-house photographer and lao Beijinger Uni You presents a selection of his photographs from around the capital over the last week.

“Play ‘City of Stars!’” a smiling Chinese man hollers from the back of The Bricks, the Sanlitun jazz club resembling Seb’s from the film La La Land. The request reflects Beijing’s growing fascination with American jazz, as China approaches the 100th anniversary of the music genre’s arrival in Shanghai.

At first glance, this year could be viewed in many ways as unexceptional, yet the first thing that struck us from conducting these interviews for The Year From Every Angle is that by and large 2018 was a year of progress.

Hello everybody! Dropping temperatures are the perfect excuse to curl up with a hot beverage and some great poetry, right? I'd like to introduce you to a set of three poems (“Moving House”, “Displacement” and “Assimilation”) by Singaporean poet Tang Jui Piow (陈维彪) in English translation by Samantha Toh. They are brilliantly concise, but there’s plenty to comment on.

He may only be 19 years old, but Beijing pianist A Bu has already attained a lifetime's worth of jazzy milestones. Aside from studying at prestigious institutions like Juilliard and the Central Conservatory in Beijing, he has shared the stage with jazz icon Chick Corea at the tender age of 13. Ahead of his Christmas Eve concert at Blue Note, where he will perform a tribute to the classic Keith Jarrett LP The Melody At Night With You, A Bu tells us more about his prodigious experiences. Read on, and try not to envy this impressive youngster.

At first glance, this year could be viewed in many ways as unexceptional, yet the first thing that struck us from conducting these interviews for The Year From Every Angle is that by and large 2018 was a year of progress.

Beijing can be overstimulating place to live, to say the least. Let’s be real: sometimes even our sixth sense (the one that tells you when that stick of chuan'r will make you sick for the next two days) gets a decent workout. With such a wide variety of events, restaurants, and gigs to attend, we suggest bathing each of your five senses in one, if not all, of the nourishing goings-on below.

What's Up in Beer is our weekly rubdown of all things ale and suds. Lather yourself in the latest beery news, gossip, and openings all the while forgetting what exactly it was that you were meant to be doing. Don't worry, beer can fix that too.