It has been snowing on and off all week but nothing as heavy as last weekend. Although the main roads were clear many parts of the old city were still covered in snow. The hutong area outside my office building still had snow-covered roofs so it...

My boss was coming up this week and we had a corporate event, which included a company luncheon on Thursday. I had been trying to think of where to go when our secretary Mandy suggested Da Dong across the road from our office. Da Dong is one of the...

Flew back late from Shanghai and arrived in Beijing to a snowstorm. Shanghai had been very hot but Beijing was -3C when I landed. The weather was bad and the taxi ride back to my home was pretty scary. The snow was so bad you couldn’t see much out the...

I had to get up at 5am this morning as I was on the early flight to Shanghai. I got to the airport with plenty of time so went to Burger King (BK) for breakfast. For some reason the airport is the only place I know in Beijing that has a Burger King, so...

Canthy’s friends were having a Mahjong evening so I said I would come along and stop by for a drink. I use to know how to play the game but that was many years ago and I was never any good. If you play with Chinese people they like the game to be...