The New York Times has published their own round-up of Beijing showing how to get the most out of visiting with very limited time. In their ongoing 36 Hours In saga they have filmed their hit-picks of what to eat, drink, and see, in this burgeoning metropolis. As you would expect a lot of the hotspots are ones well known to both the expat and abroad communities.

Do your bit for charity and have some fun this Sunday night at a charity night organised by Education First to raise money for Beijing Huiling Community Services for People with Learning Disabilities. 

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.

The latest restaurant from titan of Beijing's food world Da Dong offers a literal taste of his famous innovative Chinese cuisine and excellent Peking duck. Taste of Dadong, located on the basement level of Parkview Green, is a fast food, populist reinterpretation of the brand's other branches, the large space buzzing with diners calling in for a quick lunch.

Dear Prince William,

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.

Over the past decade or so of living in China I've learned that if you really need to get something from Point A to Point B, don't count on the China Post to get it there.

When parcels went missing in transit, I usually just chalked it up to complicated inter-country logistics or perhaps poor penmanship: I often wondered if local postal employees could read my English chicken-scratchings or my American relatives' mangled attempts at ridiculously long Pinyin romanizations or even worse, Chinese characters.
 

Same ol' same ol' in the travel world, it seems. 

Travelers from China went everywhere during Spring Festival, and The Wall Street Journal wrote about it here. During the holiday, Chinese airlines operated about 60,000 flights, up 7.8 percent over 2014. If you flew, you noticed it. 

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.

Beijing is nuts for Korean pop culture, and this goes well beyond the ability to break into a spontaneous horse trot upon hearing “Gangnam Style”. No, be it pop music, soap operas, fashion, and even cuisine, Beijing is obsessed by the contemporary culture of its relatively tiny northeastern neighbor.