A little over two years ago, I embarked on a journey to try all the provincial restaurants in Beijing. I’m still going strong but after such a long time, I was overdue for a pilgrimage to place where my infatuation with various Chinese cuisines started: Xinjiang Fanzhuang 新疆饭庄 inside the The Urumqi Representative Office Restaurant [...]
Tags: chuan'r, provincial restaurant, xinjiang food, xinjiang provincial
Between flying around continents, going to shows and just generally being too busy to get stuff done, I haven’t had time to spend time going around checking out restaurants, much less writing about them.. until last week that is when a few out-of-towners came around. A healthy craving for chuan’r and not enough time to [...]
Tags: chuan'r, Crescent Moon, xinjiang food
According to dianping, Beijing is home to 3036 Sichuan restaurant vs. 831 Xinjiang eateries (as of 2010-6-3)! It sure doesn’t feel that way because I see a lot more of the latter than the former but that might just be my own bias and the areas where i go to. It’s also easier to spot [...]
Tags: lido, silkroad restaurant, xinjiang food
Alright, the cat is out of the bag and a lof of talk is going around tweetland and blogland about The Beijinger 2010 restaurant awards. Get caught up with results and opinions here: Official List of Winners at The Beijinger Blog Musings from Modern Lei Feng Let me quickly mention that I love the way [...]
Tags: beijing duck, dianping, great restaurants, sichuan restaurant, The Beijinger restaurant awards, xinjiang food
So, 2K9 is down in the books. we’ve jumped head first into 2K10 and the door was slammed behind us signaling a “no going back” policy! I made it to loads of concerts, managed to eat plenty of meals and have a boatload of drinks. Which ones stood out? Best Live Performance: – Dirty Deeds [...]
Tags: Dirty Deeds, na jia xiao guan, redbucks, xinjiang food, XTX, ZIYO
My appreciation for all things Xinjiang and especially the cuisine is quite well documented on this blog as well as other places in the wild wild web and I never turn down an opportunity to stuff my face with sizzling roasted chuan’r or hand pulled noodles. And there are plenty of places to do that [...]
Tags: chuan'r, Kashgar, lamb, provincial restaurant, xinjiang 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 [...]
Tags: Friday dinner, roast sheep, xinjiang food
What once started as my personal ramblings has morphed into the number one collective resource about underground live music in Beijing and China. All bands, all music, all Rock n Roll, all the time with a little side of eclectic topics
The Food-related posts are stopping on 'daze! They have a new home over at The Noodle Diaries where you can find all the tales of my stomach's adventures through the universe of Chinese Food
