While street food in Beijing is not exactly what it used to be there are still a few gems that are worth detouring to. Chief among them is Niu Jie (牛街) literally “Cow Street” the so called “Muslim Street” of Beijing. Yet while Niu Jie is nowhere near the size or depth of Xi’an it…
When in search of the best bar to watch football in Beijing I discovered a few things. Firstly that the expats left here tend to be embassy and high-end toffs, secondly that the Scottish Premier League is fixed and lastly that Paddy O’Shea’s is the best place for live football. As an Irish bar of…
There is a myth that the only two countries you can’t get Coke in are Cuba and North Korea. In fact you can get it in both. In North Korea though, at least recently it has gotten harder to get the “real thing”, or even North Korean Coke. This void has seemingly been filled by…
By recommendation we boarded our bus to head to the new Clock Tower Restaurant down in the Pyonghattan Hwasong district of Pyongyang. The reason? Because we were told it was the best restaurant in Pyongyang. They did not let us down at all. Not only was this the most deluxe and exclusive restaurant that I…
Due to the state run nature of North Korea and well the private enterprise element of street dining, the Street Food Pyongyang scene was previously almost non-existent. This though has slowly started to change as the nation has slowly loosened the constraints on state ownership of everything. Combine this with the newfound riches of the…
OK almost anyone that claims to know the best restaurants in Pyongyang right now is lying! This is because over the last 6 years the culinary scene in the capital of North Korea has frankly exploded with new joints offering some great scran. And I now this because just recently I was one of the…
