Category Archives: Mailbag

Beijing Boyce XXV: Mailbag!

Email: “I think you may have saved me something in the region of 300 to 400 RMB by telling me how badly overpriced Face is. A girl I had a…

Beijing Boyce XX: Mailbag!

Email: “Congratulations on passing the 50,000-word mark, but where do you find the time?” — A.E. BB: It’s easier than it seems. An average biweekly issue is 2,500 words and,…

Beijing Boyce XVIII: Mailbag!

Here is yet another reader story submitted in response to my tale of almost being lit on fire while “enjoying” a Flaming Lamborghini. “A friend of mine was celebrating her…

Beijing Boyce XVII: Mailbag!

Two issues ago, I wrote somewhat humorously about the dangers I faced while being treated to a Flaming Lamborghini in a Beijing bar. To be clear, serving lit substances to…

Beijing Boyce XIII: Mailbag!

Email: “Blarney Stone and O’Malley’s are not ‘British’ pubs. They are Irish… Sorry for being so patriotic and stubborn.” – GP BB: I knew something felt wrong when I put…

Beijing Boyce IX: Mailbag!

Email: “Just wanted to let you know I wholeheartedly agree that Taiwan Beer rules! (Picture me giving you the devil’s horns with my right hand).” – CP BB: What makes…

Beijing Boyce VI: Mailbag!

Email: [Re My statement last issue that drinkers who mix Chivas with green tea should be executed] Why should you have any problem with those philistines who drink mass-market blended…

Beijing Boyce VII: Mailbag!

Email: In response to last issue’s story on 5:19 bar, the establishment’s owner writes: BB: “…thanks for the mention in your last yet-to-be-named newsletter. I hadn’t thought of the 80s…

Beijing Boyce V: Mailbag!

From the nimble fingers of more than a half-dozen readers comes the following query. Email: Who else reads this newsletter? BB: As of today, there are just over 200 people…

Beijing Boyce II: Mailbag!

We get e-mail: more messages than you can count on several fingers on one hand. Here are four that made me furrow my brow and dedicate some thought. Email: Is…