Four days ago we introduced the 1st annual Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards (image credit Katie), with 22 questions divided into five categories. We’ve had contributions from Piper Fisco, E, Kevin Reitz, Scott Grow and Loretta Fu. To examine the fifth of our five categories, Sex, here's Drake. By Drake Moreau Tao has dedicated this week to his own narcissistic BJC Bar and Club Awards. If you’ve seen any of ...

Three days ago we introduced the 1st annual Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards (image credit Katie), with 22 questions divided into five categories. We've had contributions from Piper Fisco, E, Kevin Reitz and Scott Grow. To examine the fourth of our five categories, Meta, we've invited somewhat of a bar expert. It's all too fitting. By Loretta Fu Why Even Call it Happy Hour if You're Only Going to Lower Pri ...

Two days ago we introduced the 1st annual Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards (image credit Katie), with 22 questions divided into five categories. Yesterday, Piper Fisco and E examined the first two of those categories, Dross and Repugnance, and earlier today, Kevin Reitz wrote about the Alcoholism category. Kevin purported to not be an alcoholic though; this evening's columnist makes no such claims. By Scot ...

Two days ago we introduced the 1st annual Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards (image credit Katie), with 22 questions divided into five categories. Yesterday, Piper Fisco and E examined the first two of those categories, Dross and Repugnance. We've invited two other guest columnists to delve into the third category: Alcoholism. By Kevin Reitz Most Reliable Place to Get Shitfaced, Followed by Overwhelming Regr ...

Yesterday we introduced the 1st annual Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards (image credit Katie), with 22 questions divided into five categories. Fifteen hours ago, Piper Fisco examined the first of those categories, Dross. We’ve invited another guest columnist, E, to examine the second category: Repugnance. By E Most Likely to Accidentally Find Yourself Trapped in a Conversation with Someone You Immediately R ...

Yesterday we introduced the 1st annual Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards (image credit Katie), with 22 questions divided into five categories. We've invited a guest columnist, Piper, to examine the first of those categories: Dross. By Piper Fisco Best Place to Watch English Teachers Try to Pick Up Local Girls (Ed's note: Kai Bar and Smugglers were late additions) 1F The Brick Latte Luga's The James Joyce Ka ...

We've complained about the snobbishness of Time Out's food awards, and noted that City Weekend's attempts to promote its awards can probably do without an Ashley Tisdale soundtrack. Where does that leave us? Ah, yes, the Beijinger. Top dog for nine years, king of Beijing's nightlife scene, like Hong Xiuquan reigning over Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Voting is open until Wednesday in tbj's thing, in 32 differen ...

[caption id="attachment_2398" align="alignnone" width="490"] 纬青&L.A.G[/caption] By The Good Doctor Until I actually saw the sign over the stage, I thought we were going to the Midi Festival. You'd think the fact that we were entering Ditan Park -- I was pretty sure the Midi was somewhere on the west side -- would have been enough to clue me in, and it looked more like an open mic night than the city's b ...

Youku video for those in China after the jump I'll leave the bulk of the editorializing to you, the readers, but I do want to say this: the person who thought footage of expats and service industry professionals schmoozing on the rooftop of Migas could be enhanced by adding an Ashley Tisdale soundtrack was possibly mistaken. Beijing's Awards Season is the adult equivalent of a preschool field day in which p ...

[Ed's note: Drake's been ill this week, so he apologies for not submitting a column. But one needn't look far around these parts to find stories of expats behaving badly, as you'll soon see.] By Scott Grow So no shit, there I was, balls fuckin’ deep, bodies everywhere. (OK, so maybe only one or two bodies – probably alive.) It was 04:30 or 05:00, or whatever time it is when you know you’ve been in Sanlitun ...