So Beijing’s new airport is happening, and it’s going to be incredible. The building won’t be without challenges, though, and Zaha Hadid Architects and ADPI believe that the key lies in the structure of the airport.
Wolf Totem, the popular film directed by French director Jean Jacques Annaud, has been criticized by Guo Xuebo, a renowned Chinese novelist and member of the China Writers’ Association, for misrepresenting Mongolian culture.
The film depicts a Beijing student, Chen Zhen, being dispatched to Inner Mongolia to work in 1967. During this time, his connection to nature strengthens and he learns more about wolves and their relationship with humans, later deciding to raise a wolf cub.
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Are you feeling overwhelmed by the holidays? Soak away those winter blues with a hot spring. Though many are concentrated in Daxing and Changping, there are also a few within the city if you can’t take off for an entire weekend.
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.
Your opportunities to use a five-star toilet are running out. The National Tourism Administration (NTA) has announced it will flush its current public toilet rating system, in favor of a new, non-star protocol later this year.
Instead, the rating system will become 1A to 3A, with 1A being where you will ask your visiting mother to wait until you get home, to 3A, where, while you may not want to eat maple walnut ice cream off the floor, it will be sufficiently clean to be satisfactory for general use.
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 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.
Despite the CNY holiday, The Veggie Table has been packed with patrons this week, no doubt there to take advantage of the abundance of variety on the venue’s vegetarian menu and to soak up its hip interior design.
The latest to join Beijing's growing number of Italian restaurants is Park 17, a sleek, industrial-chic space in the the burgeoning Courtyard 4 area of south Sanlitun (standing outside looking at The Local, Park 17 is just to the right). Au courant filament bulbs light a medium-size room furnished simply with blond wood and grey-painted walls. No table cloths here, they want guests to focus on food and enjoyment rather than stuffy fine dining.
