HOT DRINK RECIPES BEIJING TEMPLE FAIRS NEW GYMS 2017/01-02 EXPLORE BEIJING WITH FOUR OLD CHINA HANDS 云南出版集团公司 云南科技出版社 1 JAN/FEB 2017 图书在版编目（ＣＩＰ）数据 探秘北京 : 英文 / 《北京人系列丛书》编委会编著 . -- 昆明 : 云南科技出版社, 2016.12 （北京人系列丛书） ISBN 978-7-5587-0426-0 Ⅰ. ①探⋯ Ⅱ. ①北⋯ Ⅲ. ①北京－概况－英文 Ⅳ. ①K921 中国版本图书馆CIP数据核字(2016)第319844号 责任编辑：吴 琼 封面设计：Xixi 责任印刷：翟 苑 责任校对：叶水金 张彦艳 A Publication of 广告代理: 北京爱见达广告有限公司 地址: 北京市朝阳区关东店北街核桃园30号 孚兴写字楼C座5层 邮政编码: 100020 电话: 5779 8877 Advertising Hotline/广告热线: 5941 0368 /69 /72 /77 /78 /79 The Beijinger Managing Editor Margaux Schreurs Digital Content Managing Editor Tom Arnstein Editors Kyle Mullin, Tracy Wang Contributors Jeremiah Jenne, Andrew Killeen, Robynne Tindall True Run Media Founder & CEO Michael Wester Owner & Co-Founder Toni Ma Art Director Susu Luo Designer Xi Xi Production Manager Joey Guo Content Marketing Director Kyle Mullin Head of Marketing & Communications Lareina Yang Marketing Team Emma Xu, Sharon Shang, Helen Liu PR Executive Scott DeVoy Su Head of HR & Admin Tobal Loyola Finance Manager Judy Zhao Accountant Vicky Cui Admin & Distribution Executive Minna Zhao IT Manager Arvi Lefevre IT Support Yan Wen Photographer Uni You Sales Director Sheena Hu Account Managers Winter Liu, Sasha Zhang, Wilson Barrie, Olesya Sedysheva, Renee Hu, Serena Du Sales Coordinator Gladys Tang General inquiries: 5779 8877 Editorial inquiries: [email protected] Event listing submissions: [email protected] Sales inquiries: [email protected] Marketing inquiries: [email protected] Distribution inquiries: [email protected] 云南出版集团公司 云南科技出版社出版发行 （昆明市环城西路609号云南新闻出版大楼 邮政编码：650034） 北京华联印刷有限公司印刷 全国新华书店经销 开本 787mm X 1092mm 1／16 印张：3.5 字数 80千字 2016年12月第1版 2016年12月第1次印刷 定价：10.00元 2 JAN/FEB 2017 What’s Happening: The most important dates this month 04 CITY SCENE Stat: China is estimated to be home to 329 million retirees by 2050 China Buzz: Three little known WeChat functions Best of the Blog: The most popular stories from theBeijinger.com Scene & Heard: Take a look at yourselves, you beautiful people This issue we interviewed four of Beijing’s original foreigners and 12 COVER FEATURE listened to what these old China hands had to say about Beijing then and Beijing now What’s New Restaurants: Pachakutiq, Sun Japanese Cuisine, Saigon 20 FOOD & DRINK Mama, Qimianting, Ying Chinese and Ying Japanese, Steamrhino Prov Gov: Inner Mongolia Provincial Government Restaurant Just Desserts: Maoxishi Dessert Shop Wokipedia: T Advertorial: East introduces their new chef Tim Hunt P.S. We Ate You Feature: Hot drinks recipes What’s New Bars & Clubs: Mao Mao Chong, Vesuvio, High Town, Mokihi No. 3 Feature: Beijing’s best hot springs 39 GO Feature: Beijing’s newest fitness studios Feature: Temple fairs 48 Advertorial: Imprint Tattoo MEET A Chat With: Zhuang Yating Mastermind: Gianluigi Perrone LGBT: Open Doors Maovember Review: Maovember raises 1.4 million mao Playlist: Krish Raghav 56 REAR VIEW Memories of old Beijing in 2018 Cover photographs by NEXT ISSUE: DAILY UPDATES, Uni You BYE WINTER! EVENTS, And BEIJING SPRING CLASSIFIEDS ON EXPLORATION THEBEIJINGER. COM facebook the_beijinger www.issuu.com/thebeijinger www.facebook.com/theBeijinger twitter theBeijinger WeChat theBeijinger instagram @the_beijinger 3 JAN/FEB 2017 The most important dates this month WHAT’S HAPPENING JAN 10-MAR 5 Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast A comprehensive survey of the century- long history of fashion photography as captured by Condé Nast and on display at the UCCA. Photographers include Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, and Helmut Newton. JAN 18 Metallica WorldWired Tour 2017 One of the most successful rock bands, having sold 110 million albums worldwide, tour China, including a stop at Beijing's Wukesong LeSports Center. FEB 18-19 Beijing International School Expo Join beijingkids and over 52 of the city’s LARE PHOTOS: best international schools at the Crowne Plaza Beijing Chaoyang U-Town. This marks the event's sixth consecutive year P and is always a hit with families. MUSIC, WARNER OF COURTESY UTADA.COM, JAN 27 Chinese New Year Party Ring in the Year of the Rooster with good music, red envelopes, fireworks and firecrackers, delicious food, and good drinks. Check out our website for U full listings of Chinese New Year events NI Y taking place around town. OU Visit theBeijinger.com for even more events and details. 4 JAN/FEB 2017 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR e decided to do things a little bit differently this issue, and were honored Wto get to know some old China hands: foreigners who have lived in Beijing for longer than most of us expats have been alive. Wanting to know what we had missed, we delved into their time in Beijing and China, to understand why they came here and just how much our city has changed. Once you’ve soaked up a Beijing passed, read about some of the people shaping the city into what it is today. We spoke to Krish Raghav of Split Works about the musical road that led him to work as media coordinator for the China- based gig promoter, as well as Mark Bayles of Open Doors, an LGBT meetup group taking the focus away from dating apps and the bar scene. As always, flip to our food and drink section to read about our metropolis’ newest dining and boozing establishments. However, if you’re looking to start the year in a less gluttonous manner, skip the feast and get a start on your New Year’s resolutions with our feature on the city’s newest gyms – we made sure to collect only those which inspire more than the usual treadmill-packed fitness centers in order to keep you motivated for as long as possible. Finally, in preparation for Spring Festival, which falls a little earlier this year starting on January 27, read about the history of temple fairs, the home to some of the most contentious Chinese New Year’s events in the city. We hope you have a great Spring Festival and enjoy the January/February issue of the Beijinger! Margaux Schreurs Managing Editor 5 JAN/FEB 2017 CITYSTAT // CHINA BUZZ // BESTSCENE OF THE BLOG // SCENE & HEARD 329 MILLION The number of estimated retirees (people over 65 will cause drastic losses in production capabilities and put years of age) that China will be home to by 2050 i.e. exceptional strain on the country’s healthcare services, over three times the current number, and more than which will have to cater to the needs of these additional the combined populations of Germany, Japan, France, seniors. and Britain. A combination of 36 years of life under the There are also questions of how China will implement one-child policy and huge improvements in healthcare, a nationwide pension system that will help provide basic – helping to increase life expectancy and decrease birth healthcare to poorer rural families. It is unlikely that the rates – means that China is heading towards a period of belated loosening of childbirth restrictions will ease China’s extreme social and economic uncertainty presented by demographic woes, as many now deem it too costly to a vast ageing population. have a second child, and women are more inclined to seek One of the biggest economic knock-on effects will work over settling to care for a large family. BUSINESS PHOTO: arise from that fact that by 2040, China’s workforce will If there’s one upside to all of this, it’s that you’re unlikely dwindle from five workers for every retiree to an average to ever be alone if you do decide to stay on in China, but of just over one (the working-age population shrank by you better go claim your spot on the neighborhood play I NSIDER nearly 5 million people in 2015 alone). Such a decrease set now. 6 JAN/FEB 2017 CHINA BUZZ THREE LITTLE KNOWN WECHAT FUNCTIONS YOU NEED TO TRY rom messaging to topping up our mobile different backgrounds, and then have the company minutes to sending hongbao (red enveloped with print the image out as a tangible postcard before Flucky money), there seem to be few facets of our mailing it to the lucky recipient of your choice for RMB lives that haven’t become dominated by WeChat. Now, 5 (RMB 10 express). The function could certainly use the ever-evolving app has even more functions that will more design features; while the handful of background blow your mind and leave you to wonder how you ever options currently on hand look quite nice, they’ll need survived without them. Below, we’ve listed a few fun to widen the variety considerably to keep users coming functions that have been overlooked by even those of back. Still, the function has promise overall because of us who consider ourselves WeChat masters (be warned: its fun factor and its past-meets-future concept. nearly all of these functions require users to have some basic Mandarin Get a table at Hai Di Lao reading skills). We’ve all experienced the following situation at Hai Di Lao: looking forward to Barcode scanner tucking into some delicious, bubbling hot China-Channel, a firm specializing pot on a chilly winter evening, only to be in WeChat consulting (ID: China- met with throngs of likeminded patrons Channel), recently posted a how-to upon arrival, leaving you literally out in about scanning products with your the cold. WeChat to conveniently find out how Fortunately, Hai Di Lao, the much they cost, along with other frequently packed-out hot pot chain, is product information like delivery endeavoring to address this issue with a availability, not to mention where to new WeChat function. The restaurant’s purchase such items more cheaply use of this high-tech function was detailed online.