Category Archives: Contests

Bird up! Win four-course turkey dinner for six at Switch! Grill

UPDATE: We did a random draw for this one. I asked Ivan Matic of Moment Cafe to witness the process and make the pick, under the watchful of the even…

Celebrity Pizza Contest: Ten Gung Ho! Pizzas + Case of Vedett Blonde = House Partay

UPDATE: Rich Akers of Gung Ho! went above and beyond and maybe even upside down on this one. Instead of just doing a draw, he apparently spent hours carefully analyzing…

The ‘Want Some Stuff, Man?’ Contest: And the winner is…

~ What if the next time some mobile foreign salesman in Sanlitun asked “Want some stuff, man?” and actually stocked items you wanted? That was the basis of the most…

The ‘Want Some Stuff, Man?’ Contest: ‘Yeah, I want some [fill in blank].’

(Winner of Name That ‘Tun contest to be announced shortly.) ~ Visit Sanlitun at night, and appear as if there is at least a .01 percent chance you might want…

Name That ‘Tun Contest: Give this party area a nickname, win drinks-nibbles tour of Brussels, Ole & Q-Mex

Update: Click here to see who the judges picked as the winner. When people talk about partying in Sanlitun, they tend to mean the area with Swire Village, Tongli Studio,…

Pisco Fever 2: Who wants this (IMHO cool) bottle of Pisco Porton

UPDATE: As usual with contests on this blog, I asked an observer — in this case Jack Zhou of 1F — to monitor me as I wrote down the entrant…

Hilton Theme Team Contest: Pretty much everyone’s a winner, baby!

Pretty much everyone’s a winner, baby. – Director of operations Simon Amos and his team at the Beijing Hilton have scrutinized the entries to the Theme Team Contest, for this…

Low-carb Contest: Win a pair of 750-gram steaks and martinis from Flamme

Marketing manager Carrie Lei, chef Leo Chang and restaurant manager Helen Jin – Update: Details on the winner here. Man, those steaks are big. So big they have their own…

Theme Team Contest: Win two wine fair tickets, dinner, overnight stay and breakfast at Hilton Beijing

Update: The Beijing Hilton has picked the winners. Check them out here. Update: Simon Amos and his team at the Hilton Beijing have picked the winners and I will have…

Threesome contest: Win the first 28-inch monster pizza at the new Kro’s Nest

Update: I did the draw today with chef and consultant Jeff Powell, who he has done work with Kro’s Nest in the past and more recently was at Flamme.  He…

Bar Rescue Beijing Contest: Win 100 Bottles of Gin and Vodka from Fubar

Update: I met with Chad Lager of Fubar this week to pick the winners of the 100 bottles of vodka and gin in the Beijing Bar Rescue Contest. All valid…

Beijing Summer House Party Contest: Win 10 Gung Ho pizzas, 48 bottles of Vedett White

UPDATE: And we have a winner. As I spent the afternoon working at Grinders, I asked co-owner Trevor Metz to oversee the draw and pick the winner. After much scrambling…