Bottega: 1/2 Price Calzone + Stella Draft Mondays

Bottega’s Monday Spring Deal includes 1/2 off Calzones!

Beijing’s got a lot of ongoing weekly deals and here’s a seriously good one that you should start planning your Mondays around. Launched this Spring, Bottega‘s 1/2 price Calzone and 1/2 price on Stella drafts is giving Blue Frog’s ever-popular 2-for-1 burger deal a run for its money.

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theBeijinger: International Foodie Festival Weekend

 theBeijinger Hosts Over 30 International Food Vendors

Foodies unite! theBeijinger is launching their first ever International Foodie Weekend, a F&B extravaganza taking place this weekend (May 30-31 from 11AM-8PM) at Galaxy SOHO (southwest of Chaoyangmen Subway).

They’ve signed up over 30 international food vendors – from pizza to Portuguese, American BBQ, Aussie Meat Pies, Greek, Indonesian, Mexican and plenty of decadent desserts, they’ve covered many of their favorite international eateries in Beijing. And to showcase some specialty Chinese bites, they’ll also be featuring Asiniuniu‘s Yi minority cuisine from Liangshan in Sichuan and Susongfu‘s traditional Shanghainese shengjianbao.

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Blue Frog: A Guide to 2-for-1 Burger Mondays

Join Blue Frog’s Mile High Club by ordering 2 Mile High Burgers for the Price of 1 Every Monday

For most of my foodie friends, Blue Frog‘s 2-for-1 Monday Burger Night is widely known as one of the best value deals in town. Though it was all the rage when the deal first came out, it’s been around for a few years now and after going for monster burgers every Monday for a few weeks in a row, it’s not too long before you get burgered-out.

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Punchline Comedy Show: Irish Humor at Its Best

Irish Actor & Stand-Up Comedian Joe Rooney is Coming to Beijing

In the spirit of the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day holiday, Punchline Comedy Club is putting together an all-Irish Comedy show with three outstanding Irish stand-up comedians: Joe Rooney, Brendan Dempsey and Ian Coppinger.

All-Irish Comedy Line-Up: Joe Rooney, Ian Coppinger & Brendan Dempsey

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LDS Hook-Up: Win Tickets to Punchline Comedy Show

 Punchline Comedy Show with Comedian Jeff Green

“That innocent twinkle gives way to a wicked gleam… His insights into relationships are hilarious and true.” – The Independent Weekly – Adelaide on English Comedian Jeff Green

Back at it again, Punchline Comedy Club is putting together another roaring show with three brilliant comedians – Award-winning British Comedian Jeff Green and two great Scots, Geoff Boyz and Alan Francis.

English stand-up star Jeff Green has been called a “National Treasure” (Daily Mirror) and “The funniest stand-up in Britian” (The Sun). Since quitting the world of Chemical Engineering, Jeff has since become a well known face and voice on Australian TV and radio, a well known UK radio voice with three BBC Radio 2 Comedy Series and  is a best selling author with his books selling over 300,000 copies.

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Celebrate Christmas Cheer: Top Holiday Feasts 2012

LumDimFamily Christmas Table

Nothing quite compares to a proper holiday meal. It is the meal we look forward to all year long. Of course it’s always an added benefit to be surrounded by family and loved ones, but even just the food alone is something worth noting.

Lucky for you, Beijing is full of both impressive and affordable options for you and your loved ones to choose from.

Take advantage as this is the one time of year when you’re obliged to feast to your heart’s content, eating your way through full turkeys, hunky slices of honey-glazed ham, and as much Christmas pudding, boxes of chocolate and Santa’s cookies as you can stomach. And the best part is that you don’t have to worry about packing on a couple extra pounds because it will be hidden under all those additional layers of clothing!

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Thanksgiving 2012: LDS Turkey Feast Breakdown

Last Year’s Thanksgiving Turkey Straight Outta the Oven

It’s been years since I’ve spent Thanksgiving holiday together with my family in California, and this year will mark my 7th Thanksgiving in Beijing. (Eek!)

Luckily though, I’ve found a solid group of dear friends that I like to call my “Beijing Family” who I will be sharing this holiday with over a meal fit for royalty. In fact, our (Beijing) family’s attitude towards Thanksgiving is that we love the meal too much to limit ourselves to only have once per year, so we try and cook up a big turkey feast at least 2-3 times a year.

But to make our actual Thanksgiving dinner extra special, we will be indulging in two turkey feasts in one day. That’s right – after eating ourselves into a turkey coma, we’ll wake ourselves up for round two.

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Punchline Comedy: Arj Barker, Flight of the Conchords

“Arj Barker is an intelligent, droll comic with a dark turn of thought and a fantastic, disturbing stage persona. There is a richness to Barker’s work and a maturity and gift for extrapolation which set him apart” – The Age, Melbourne

The Punchline Comedy Club is hosting a first-class stand up comedy show starring American comedian Arj Barker and two comedians from the UK Steve Gribbin and John Fothergill.

While Arj Barker has appeared on late-night comedy shows like Conan O’Brien Late Night Show and has twice hosted Comedy Central Presents, he’s probably best known for his character Dave, Bret and Jemaine’s indifferent friend, in the HBO TV sitcom Flight of the Conchords, a show about a two-man band from New Zealand as they seek fame and success in New York City.

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