Taiping Jiaozi Guan
Taiping Jiaozi Guan is a famous dumpling restaurant among the locals. Dumplings are the staple food here in Beijing and on Wednesday night we filled up on these tasty little…
Handel’s Messiah at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, China
This weekend we started off the month of December by going to see Handel's Messiah performed by the International Festival Chorus and Orchestra at the Forbidden City Concert Hall. I…
Tianjin: “Shanghai of the North”
After finishing up midterms on Friday, we decided it was time for a break. Just 1 1/2 hours southeast of Beijing is a city called Tianjin, also nicknamed the "Shanghai…
Tianjin’s Wudadao
Tianjin is full of cool European architecture from the turn of the 20th century. The rest of our afternoon in Tianjin was spent walking around old neighborhoods like Wudadao in…