South goes north: Huxley upgrades Nanjie bar
If I defined ‘getting sloppy‘ in Beijing, I might include a reference or two to various all-nighters at Nanjie, one of the city’s best-known down-and-dirty dens of drinking. But that might soon…
Category Archives: Nanjie
Yes! DJ Chunk, 80s vinyl, and Nanjie
Call me old school, but I like prefer newspapers in paper rather than electronic form, drinks that are free poured rather than mechanically measured out, and dogs that are useful…
Weekend pub patrol: Danger Doyle’s, The Boat, Lantung, Kokomo, and more
Stadium (map) sports bar will re-launch as Irish pub Danger Doyle’s tonight (Friday), with Glenn Phelan (ex-Paddy O’Shea’s, Frank’s Place, et al) at the helm. Free drinks from 8 PM…
Top five watering holes: Shane Crombie
Shane Crombie is a digital brand strategist, organizer of the ‘First Thursday‘ monthly ad industry event, and regular contributor to localnoodles.com. Here are his top five watering holes and his…
Weekend Wrap I: Makoto, 1/5, Tun, Smugglers, China Doll, and more
Oh, it doesn’t matter what they say in the papers ‘Cause it’s always been the same old scene There’s a new band in town But you can’t get the sound…
Sanlitun roundup: Lugas, Saddle Cantina, 1949, Kokomo / China Doll
It sounds like the Kokomo / China Doll standoff is over for now. Two co-owners of Kokomo told me last Thursday that Tongli Studio management fixed the damaged lighting console…
The Saturday that was: CJW, Nanjie, Tree, Rickshaw
With this thing, it’s happy hour forever! ((c) Universal Studios) Rare be those times when a Beijing birthday boy busts moves to the Back to the Future theme in a…
Saturday night cont.: Q Bar, Nanjie, Heat, Caribe and more
Plan A: Sedate Saturday Night quickly became Plan B: Unscheduled Pub Crawl to Later Regret after I hooked up with Special K, Miss P and The Cellar Rat last weekend….
Round-up: The Rickshaw Rally 2007
When I dropped into The Rickshaw last Friday morning to watch the Chicago Cubs – Arizona Diamondbacks game, I didn’t imagine that 24 hours later I would be blogging live…
E-Salted: Taipei’s Party Queen Returns
I love my K-Touch B922 phone – for one thing, the battery lasts a week – but if you’re planning to buy one make sure to lock it before putting…
Readers’ Writes I: Don, Olli, Eddie and Jason
Welcome to Readers’ Writes week, starring the collective wisdom of 17 fellow bar-goers who answered my survey about their favorite Beijing drinking holes and the city’s general nightlife scene. They…
And the TBJ bar award winners are…
Bar and club owners and employees were out in force at the Kunlun Hotel two weeks ago for the annual that’s Beijing awards. More than 30 establishments took home prizes…
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