‘Bap til you drop II: rmb69 Korean food-China wine pairing at Saveurs de Coree
King-Tai Chow and Eun-Jung Yoo try to use as many local products as possible at their two branches of Korean restaurant Saveurs de Coree and we have often talked about…
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Wrap-up: The Hilton Food & Wine Experience
Rather than write a lengthy report about Saturday’s Food & Wine Experience at The Hilton, I thought it would be more fun to interview myself. Here we go: Was that…
Wine world: Torres Taste of Nations event
I would have given two thumbs up to Torres for last weekend’s Taste of the Nations, an event in Trader’s Hotel that featured some 150 of the distributor’s wines, but…
Voss have vee here…
Still water still life It’s not exactly turning water into wine, more like adding it to the product mix, as ASC Fine Wines introduces Voss to China and Macau. Summergate…
Dragon Fruit, Rickshaws and Wine
The all-male crowd seems to have abandoned Q Bar as its Thursday night watering hole. The place was lightly populated tonight (last night), which meant peace and quiet as I…
Cru for Blu: Wine feast to mark new eats joint
Shangri-La’s Blu Lobster will celebrate its opening by pairing Haut-Brion wine with a six-course dinner by the restaurant’s chef, Brian McKenna. Expect to leave heavier in the mid-section but lighter…
Opening Shots 31, Part 3: Wine Word
Wine Word: Expect to see Edward Ragg and Fongyee Walker, former Cambridge University Blind Wine Tasting Society captains, about town as they have relocated to Beijing. / Ex-ASC Fine Wines…
Flashback: A Taillan Tour in Photos
Pictures, pictures, pictures – that’s my friend Kraft-D’s advice for this blog. Last night, I dug up a few dozen from a November 2005 trip to Taillan, a winery just outside Beijing. Sequoia Cafe…
On the Move: Phoebe, Karen, Campbell and Joop
The Hyatt’s Phoebe Lee is checking out of Beijing and heading up the corporate ladder with a move to… where? what’s that? wei? wei?… well, she was at the airport…
From Petrus to Pink Panties, Bordeaux to Budweiser
My spirits were high when Agent Red Wolf, O-Zone, Flash and I attended the November 24 Summergate wine tasting at China Lounge (150 kuai). Not only would we sample seven…
The Dinner and the Door
I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been at a wine dinner where a patron has destroyed a door. I can now raise one more finger…
Happen stuff
Cafe Pause will feature German music and Jagermeister cocktails on September 23 (8 PM on), and co-owner Stefan Fleischer is offering a free shooter to anyone wearing Leiderhosen. / Crowne…
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