For one night only this Thursday March 5, Mosto's chef Daniel Urdaneta will be taking over the kitchen at 京A for "The Arepera", a very special pop-up featuring South America's best drunk food, arepas. These corn/maize flour buns (think of them as a Latin roujiamo) are popular throughout Venezuela and Colombia, where they come with a variety of meat and vegetable fillings.

Finally! A press release from Marks & Spencer discusses their move into “greater China” including cities like Beijing and Guangzhou from 2015 and 2016. Although we were a bit offended by the fact that they have labeled the capital city “greater” China, we would love it if Marks & Spencer actually opened here.

Following his in-depth tests on the best pollution masks last year, Beijing-based physician, blogger, and obsessive air filtration tester Dr Richard St Cyr has recently been on the hunt for budget air filters to help us Beijingers fight off the filth that regularly assaults our breathing passages.

Unless they were offering a special deal from or to Beijing, we normally wouldn't write about machinations at Malaysia Airlines. But then again, it was a Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared almost a year ago while en route to Beijing, becoming the biggest aviation mystery of the 21st century so far.

This Sunday, Más brings you that classic pairing of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz, in all of it's legendary psychedelic glory. Prepare to tune in and drop out while experiencing the original mashup that sent thousands of teens to their VHS decks and turntables fumbling to press play in unison during the MGM lion's roar.

Beijing's expat community attracts some of the world's best and brightest minds, but that doesn't mean their talents are always put to good use. Colin Friedman has seen this time and again while working as the CEO of his FCGroup, (which, among other things, organizes industry themed networking events for foreigners and Chinese to meet and make connections). 

This year our 2015 Reader Restaurant Awards have four personality-based categories: Best Chef, Best Manager, Restaurant Personality of the Year, and Food Entrepreneur of the Year. During the voting period that runs through March 8, we’re profiling a few of this year’s crop of nominees.

This time around we present Aitor Olabegoya, executive chef at Migas and nominee in the Best Chef category.

[Update 3/11: Chinese news magazine Caixin is hosting the film locally. Click here.

[Update 3/7: local hosting of this documentary has now been scrubbed from the internet, see update here]

Good morning Beijing! Today is Tuesday, March 3, 2015.

Weather forecast: Partly sunny. Today's high will be 4℃, low of -6℃.

License plate restrictions: 4 and 9.
 

The Event You Shouldn't Miss Today Is:

NCAA Basketball Tournament

This year our 2015 Reader Restaurant Awards have four personality-based categories: Best Chef, Best Manager, Restaurant Personality of the Year, and Food Entrepreneur of the Year. During the voting period that runs through March 8, we’re profiling a few of this year’s crop of nominees.