Following on the tails of the post about Ginkgo Beijing, yours truly is sticking with the theme of schizophrenic establishments in the Andingmen/jiaodaokou area.
Chicken wings are all the rage in Beijing! The city’s infatuation with wings goes back a few years now and can almost be traced back to the days of a long [...]
Tags: Friday dinner, street foods, wings
As expats in Beijing, we tend to rely on the various expat rags for recommendations and reviews that will guide us towards a certain dining establishment or another. But what about the locals? What do they read and who do they trust? They got the almighty Dianping!
I checked on there for the most popular Chinese [...]
Tags: chinese restaurant, Friday dinner, manchurian, na jia xiao guan, venison
I discovered Yunteng Shifu as part of a Friday dinner series to visit all the Provincial restaurants in Beijing. Despite being lost in the shadow cast by the Sichuan and Xinjiang provincial restaurants, Yunteng Shifu (云腾宾馆食府), the Yunnan provincial restaurant is one of the better, albeit hidden, dining spot in Beijing.
The cuisine is 100% genuinely [...]
Tags: Friday dinner, mijiu, provincial restaurant, yunnan food
Life in Beijing can be strange sometimes as anyone who has lived here for an extended period of time can tell you; In many ways, one could say it’s reminiscent of the lyrics from “Welcome to the jungle” by Gun N Roses:
Welcome to the jungle.
If you got the money, honey
we got your disease!!
So what [...]
Tags: Friday dinner, roast sheep, xinjiang food
YABB ( Yet Another Beijing Blog) for my pleasure and amusement! I'm hoping some folks might find the information useful or entertaining! It's mostly about strange and unusual happenings in this concrete urban jungle I call home. 