Beijing Boyce

There’s the toilet, but where’re the dumplings?

We won’t swim in your toilet if you don’t pee in our pool goes a famous saying. It’s one that might be adopted for Beijing’s public toilets since they’ll no longer be allowed to be neighbors with food stands. I don’t exactly know what that saying might be - maybe We won’t eat in your toilet if you don’t squat in our kitchen - but it would be interesting to know how “food stall” is defined: whether it means a guy hawking ice cream cones near the door of a public toilet or a restaurant that shares the same building.

Interestingly, Taiwan has no such qualms about mixing eating and flushing.

The Stone Boat continues its summer schedule on Thursday with “boat folk”, featuring “earthy Chinese roots music” at 9 PM.

Friday night brings three continents together, with a tasting of Santa Mia wines (Chile) from Jebsen and President cheeses (France) from Sinodis, from 7:30 to 9:30 PM (50 kuai per person). Next up is Panjir, with its, “Indian-style beats and Uighur Flamenco chords.”

On Saturday, Beijing reggae band Upstepper is slated to provide, according to Das Boat, “a unique evening of loose n’ live acoustic reggae jams, downtempo MCs, impromptu tub-thumping and all-round good vibrations.”

Extra bonus: If you arrive early enough, you can watch people catching fish in the pond nearby…