Previously I ranked The Korean Meat and Seafood BBQ Restaurant – 5th Ring road Beijing as the best North Korean restaurant in Beijing, if nothing else than for its flirtatious staff. Well that place has now closed, so we came to check out Pyongyang OK Ryu Guan and to see if it is the new…
While I often wax lyrical about hotels being the “best” in a city, very now and again there’s a place that while not perfect, are so friendly and offer such great value that you fall in love a bit. And that is exactly what happened in Mohe at the IZI Hotel. Now while I did…
There’s a lot of things that China get really right and one of them is obscenely good hotel districts near airports, as in lots of cheap good hotels and a whole district of food and amenities surrounding it. And this was what led me to Xinduo Hotel, some great BBQ and an eclectic district. This…
Basically Chinese breakfast is really not very good. This is not to say I don’t like Chinese food, I love it, but Chinese breakfast, save Jian Bing is gash. Therefore on our trip to through he boonies and borderlands of China we generally tried to do McDonalds Breakfast. Well there is no McDonalds in Genhe,…
There’s a fast food chain that is freaking huge, huge to a degree that it has over 20,000 locations. The chances are, though, that you’ve never heard of it. And it is Wallace Burger and Chicken in China! Why have you not heard of it, I hear you scream? Well, that is because fast food…
When it comes to obscure destinations in China, Qiqihar is pretty much as far off the beaten track as you can get. Tucked away in the far north-east of the country, this is a place of freezing winters, declining industry, old railway stations and some seriously good beef barbecue. It is also about as far…
