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  • Farm2Neighbors Market Beijing

    Every weekend, the ground floor of The Grand Summit turns into a local produce and artisan market. Here are some impressions of today’s vendors.

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  • Happy Chinese New Year!

    Last week Beijing welcomed the Year of the Monkey with a week-long holiday and incredibly loud fireworks.

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  • 3DPRK by Matjaž Tančič x Koryo Studio

    3D picture exhibition shot by Matjaž Tančič in North Korea. You get 3D glasses at the entrance (the blue & red glassed kind) to get the full three-dimensional effect.

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  • Our Local Fruit & Vegetable Market

    Our Local Fruit & Vegetable Market

    Yesterday we went looking for someone to fix Jelte’s bike and found a vegetable market instead. Right next to our compound. Been living here for three month and never noticed it. Glad we know now!

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  • Beijing 798 Art Zone – Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as a Universalism

    Beijing 798 Art Zone – Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as a Universalism

    Thanks to our former study buddy and good friend Maike, who visited us last weekend, after almost two month in China we finally discovered Beijing’s 798 Art District! Here are some pictures of one of the exhibitions.  

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  • Donghuamen Night Market

    Delicacies @ Donghuamen Night Market. Initially we went to buy a cell phone card at China Unicom, then walked right into the apm shopping Mall, before discovering fancy foods at the night market. Delikatessen auf dem Donghuamen Nachtmarkt. Zunächst wollten wir nur eine Telefonkarte bei China Unicom kaufen, doch dann fanden wir uns unerwarteterweise im…

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  • El Gatto Caffe in Lishi Hutong

    Cute little bar serving a variety of imported beers. Although not Duisburg’s Finkenkrug, there are several German Beer choices and – among others – two Chinese local brews, the Red Honey Ale and the Kuding Pale Ale. Located right next to 161 Hotel, where many foreigner stayed (they have a German website), its porch makes…

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