Do you just know that your chili is the best in Beijing? Get your application in for the Great Leap Brewing Original #6 4th Annual Back Alley Chili Cook-Off. It will take place on April 11, 2-6pm.
We have found you something else to do during Chinese New Year that isn’t drinking or visiting a Temple Fair: shake things up and catch the pilot episode of Passage to China!
A rather great triumph for globalization: California senate has passed a resolution to make Chinese Lunar New Year an official festival of the state, CRI reports.
The senate republican leader of California, Bob Huff, said “The Lunar New year is a time of feasting and renewing of family ties” and “The celebration of this event in communities throughout California illustrates the state’s rich cultural history and commitment to racial, religious, and cultural diversity.”
At first sight, Mr Shi’s Noodles looks like a sweet little spot, albeit one that may leave you wondering whether you have gone for dinner earlier than everyone else in the world (and by world we mean Baochao Hutong).
Cici Feng Johnston
Co-owner of Trouble Bar
I knew we must be approaching the Spring Festival travel season. On Wednesday night, here on this small Thai island, a waft of cigarette smoke, some slamming hotel room doors, and the echo of "cao" down the corridor, and I realized the first visitors from China must have arrived.
Don’t shoot the messenger, but China’s metrological authority has predicted that Northern China will be covered in a great blanket of smog tomorrow and the day after. Sigh.
Smog in Beijing and Tianjin will be medium to severe, as a result of low wind. Add fog into the mix for a beautiful grey sky. Such a shame considering the AQI has been so low the past few weeks (give or take a few days).
Hopefully the Ministry of Sky Manipulation will be able to fix it before Spring Festival.
While looking into the closure of the cocktail bar Apothecary yesterday, we've also learned that another project of Leon Lee's, the jazz club Yue Fu, also quietly closed last month.
Goat, lamb, ram, sheep – whichever moniker you prefer for these occasionally woolly and generally tasty animals, it’s a yang year. And if you were born in 1967, 1979, 1991, or 2003, it’s your year too. The year is considered to take on the characteristics of the animal that rules it, so let’s see what we can expect for the coming period, as the Year of the Sheep only lasts until February 7, 2016.
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