Tales of Live Music From Beijing's Mostly Underground Rock Scene..
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...
A little while back, I’ve finally managed to gather the troops and head over to the west side of town for the last of the Xinjiang Provincial restaurants in Beijing that had managed to...
There have been many debates amongst Beijing’s twitterati earlier this year as to who has the best La Zi Ji 辣子鸡 with many names pushed forward including the ever reliable Chuan Ban but I...
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.....
I finish work quite late usually which makes it a bit inconvenient to catch a proper meal before heading to shows. So, over the past year, I’ve made my little list of convenient, easy...
This past saturday, after failing to locate the no-longer-there Dunhuang Shifu, I rerouted the troops towards the Kashgar Representative Office Restaurant 喀什饭庄 (map) as they had never been there. That was all the excuse...
I’ve been walking by this sign on Gulou Dong Da Jie, not too far away from the north entrance of Nan Luo Gu Xiang for a while now and never had the time to...
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...
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.. best of all, it's still as BIASED as ever