Entertainment in Beijing

Beijing Bar Hot Zone
• Sanlitun Bars Street
All of the floweriness and craziness of night Beijing seems to have gathered in this narrow street Sanlitun. Adjacent to the embassy area, the street is quiet and clear. When you pass here at daytime, it's hard for you to imagine how ablare and crazy it is at night. All descriptions of people, either beautiful or monster-like or ghost-like groups, here is a world of night owls. Are you a bit drunk for such a Beijing under the dim light of night full of perfume, neon, men and women?
Wanna go to a bar? Certainly your first choice is Sanlitun! Here, walking to different bars is a good choice. Select a bar to your interest, and sit a while to experience the business style of the shopkeeper. Then, go to other bars. Different faces, peculiar music, widely different audiovisual enjoyment. Visiting a bar is no longer time killing. In fact, happiness is not from the bars themselves, but from the friends alongside you. So do not drink unhappily alone. Be a bar fan and enjoy yourself in visiting different bars. Visiting bars is still a rising consumption behavior. Most of the visitors are foreigners in Beijing. Might be modern as well?

1. Xiang Yao (Country Ballad)
The Xiang Yao Club has been well known in Beijing for music. You will relax when you are involved in the comfortable environment of American country bar style as well as the gentle aura created by smooth ballad and country music. This was a base for Beijing musicians, also the earliest music bar with on-the-spot singing-playing performance. Now, bands or groups staged here are extremely uncommon. Its English name NASHVILLE was just named after NASHVILLE, the cradle of American country music. Today, music from Xiao Yao Club is still so fresh and simple. Every night, passional shows of bands make people feel much enjoyment and linger here.
- Address: Sanlitun, Chaoyang District

2. Skyline
Blue signboard, droplights with vine-made lampshades, everything is like a moony dream in the dullish beam. Courteous and accommodating waiters and waitresses, elegant and harmonious aura. Soft and sentimental music.
- Address: No.70 Sanlitun Bars Street, Chaoyang District

3. Porgy's Place
It is really the first American Negroes soul Music bar and restaurant of soul dishes in China. Specials recommended by the barkeeper: Porgy's Roasted Pork Chop (reservation is required due to longer cooking lime)
- Address: Sanlitun South Bar Street, Chaoyang District

4. Inner Affair
Dark red wood floor, dark colored wooden furniture and comfortable sofas beside a fireplace, chatting with friends while tasting best cigars from Cuba, you can feel as if you were in Cuba. Just choose a bottle of best wine in the world from its shelf of wine and enjoy a "time of soul" with best friends accompanied by melodious music.
- Address: F/1, Qiankun Plaza, No. 6, Bingliujie, Sanlitun, Chaoyang District, Beijing

5. Ireland Bar
A very spacious bar with unique and fine decoration and complete wines and drinks. The greatest Irish band Live Music plays dulcet Irish music! Of course, this is not only for foreigners, but for Chinese who wanna taste pure Irish cuisines too.
- Address: East Bldg.12, South Sanlitun, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Certainly, besides Sanlitun, all diversified bars across Beijing are most wonderful places for you to realize a night Beijing. The following bars are very interesting personalized ones. Professionals bar visitor will never miss them!

• Haoyun Bar
Haoyun Bar is characterized by band performances, regular performances, predominantly hard rock style, are offered every week. With the frequent performances by famous bands like Tang Dynasty Band, Twisted Machine, CMCB and 1979, it has become the holy land of underground rock music in Beijing.
- Address: 300 meters east of South Gate of University of International Business and Economics

• Pretty Bird Bar
It consists of nine rooms of different styles and 2 bar counters. Simply and uniquely decorated everywhere with ancient articles of folk customs collected from common people. Odd-shaped acoustics facilities are made by the Bar itself. A fancy and simple style of culture bar with folk custom collections. Most frequent visitors are from literature circle, show biz and other cultural classes. The gentle and lyric music aura dominated by country music is serene, peaceful, comfortable, natural and mild.
- Address: Bldg.3, Quarter 4, Anhuali, Chaoyang District (behind Jiangsu Hotel)

• New Bridge Jazz Shopwindow Club
A Jazz bar with a slight noble flavor. Inside the "New Bridge" is slightly like an ancient castle of the mid-century. Dim candle lighting. No portraits on the wall, but painted with abstract shapes of simple lines. It is said that the sound effect here is even better than that in the CCTV Studio. In the bar, you can really hear many musical works of Jazz masters.
- Address: Bldg.15, Quarter 3, Anzhenli

• Ball House
Hidden under Tower Bell, you can see few guests inside, but it seems they know each other well, some are playing billiards, some playing table soccer, some drinking and chatting, and something special here is "Iceland" ice tea.
- Address: No. 40, Zhonglouwan Lane, Jiugulou Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing

• Gransland Music Cafe
Once entering, on the opposite wall is a decoration painting that reminds one with extravagant and graceful flavor of the Moulin Rouge of Paris. The paintings are embellished with liquor cabinets on each side. You can eat authentic Western food here. Red wine corridor is fully reminiscent. Outside the corridor decorates the old photos of Golf treasured up by the bar owner. There are no places better than here to taste Rum.
- Address: 1/F underground, Donghuan Plaza, No.29 Xinzhong Street, Dongcheng District
- Directions: Take buses No.113, 118 or 44 and get off at Xinzhongjie

• VICS
With fashionable design and vast spaces, music here is predominantly R&B and hip-hop, most of customers are young dancing lovers. Perfect individualized services offered in VICS make it a best choice for weekend entertainments of youngsters.
- Address: East of North Gate of Worker's Stadium, Chaoyang District, Beijing
- Directions: Work's Stadium Stop by Bus 110

• MIX
Post modernism decoration style makes it pleasing and distinctive, its internal spaces are well separated so that you can choose an environment you like or dance with groups of people. You can have a bird's view of shaking crowds through handrails on the second floor while lasting delicious Italian or French foods. It is absolutely a best choice for street dancing lovers.
- Address: West of North Gate of Worker's Stadium, Chaoyang District

• Nameless Highland Bar
Welcome to the Nameless Highland Bar, an army camping paradise for beer and skittles. Unheard of army camping funs for you. There are wonderful performances and a wide range of games that you expect to find. Additionally, wonderful parts of World War II movies will remind you with something. When you are seized by a whim, do you want to mount to the "blockhouse"? This is a distinctive scene of the bar.
- Address: Quarter 1, Anhuili, Asian Games Village, Beijing

Beijing Tea House Hot Zone
Nine tea ceremony houses introduced here slightly differ from civilian salons- teahouses of old Beijing. The tea ceremony culture originated earlier and lasting forever is more like a kind of artistic performance. As an increasingly hot elegant entertainment and leisure activity, it's another good place for relaxation and cultivation of moral character.

• Santosa Tea Garden
Beijing Santosa Tea House is located at Waiguanxiejie, North 2nd Ring, Beijing, easily accessible, close to the Liuyin Park, which leans on mountains and water. It has a business area of 3000 square meters and a seat capacity of 500. Its investment registers RMB 50 million, mainly serves famous tea and coffee from home and abroad, also classical cuisines mainly including "bird's nest, abalone, shark's fin" and Southeast Asian cuisines. The Old Songs Vocal Hall is a classical work of the tea house, where famous singers and artists of the old generation sing reminiscent songs from 8:30 pm to 23:00 pm every night. Curio, old phonographs, old oil-fueled lamps and well-collected old discs make you feel as if in an old Shanghai restaurant in the 1930s-1940s.
- Address: No.1A Waiguanxiejie, Chaoyang District, Beijing

• Seven-Bowl Tea House
China classic style, dense cultural flavor. While tasting the fragrant tea, you can also enjoy traditional Chinese culture. Or alternatively, you can have fun with those jade-white or jade-green Taiwan celadon tea sets, or touch the Yixing purple sand kettles. The greatest thing may be a free appreciation of tea ceremony performance the bright wafer column swings magically among fine, slight and jade-like fingers.
- Address: No.30 Baishiqiao, Haidian District, Beijing (100m east from the south gate of China Academy of Agriculture)
- Directions: Take No.904 or 16 bus and get off at Nongkeyuan Nanmen (the south gate of China Academy of Agriculture) stop.

• Zhang Yiyuan Tea Store
The Chinese name of the store is derived from the meaning of "Yi Yuan Fu Shi, Wan Xiang Geng Xin"(when a year begins, everything looks fresh and gay). Services not only include common tea, also tea ceremony, tea customs, tea cookies and literary performances. Zhangyiyuan Tea House is an old famous store with nearly 100 years history. 1925,founded tea ground in Fujian, pick fresh tea by seasons, Zhangyiyuan is famous for its tea which is flovered.
- Address: No.18 zhongguancun North Street, Haidian District, Beijing
- Directions: No. 332, 320, 904, 716, 106 or 941 and get off at Weigongcun stop, 10 meters north

• Minghui Tea House
The Minghui Tea House absorbs the advantages of traditional tea ceremony from mainland and new tea ceremony from Taiwan. In a quiet and peaceful manner and with superior professional techniques of tea ceremony, it seeks for the perfection and harmony among tea, water, environment, human, business and utensil. Led by tea tasting, it helps people pursue the immaterial realm of intelligence. Visitors can enjoy a wide range of famous tea including the Woolong series, Longjing series, Green tea series, Jasmine tea series as well as Taiwan Woolong series. Delicious tea cookies and regular tea ceremony show with zheng accompaniment at weekends.
- Address: Temple of Great Awakening (Dajuesi), Bei'anhe, Haidian District, Beijing
- Directions: Take No.903 or 346 buses and got off at Dajuesi stop, then 300m west

• Ziyunxuan Tea House
If you are hearing about it for the first time, be sure to taste some tea here. In Ziyunxuan, the refinement of Suzhou gardens and the practicality of northern Siheyuan (courtyard with building on four sides) are combined meticulously: In addition to dishes of the top eight styles, which are followed and developed, it serves a lot of tea-related dishes, which are aborative creation by the host and hardly found in other places. Rumly named, these dishes are incomparably delicious.
- Address: No.53 Tayuan Village, Chaoyang District, Beijing
- Directions: Take buses No. 110, 120 or 403 and got oil at Tayuan stop

• Honglu Tea House
The Honglu Tea House provides an unconventional sense for you with its elegant and sequestered environment. Unique tea culture, fragrant and refreshing tea. "The house will be stable if you are calm, and the meals will be delicious if you are immutable" expresses the true meaning of Honglu Tea House. Complete set of tea services and a drum to call for the waiters on the table add much interest to the House. It's just as it's said "you'll feel not tired in a house full of tea fragrance and you'll be in a good humor when washing down the hardships".
- Address: No.38 Haidian Road, Haidian District, Beijing
- Directions: Take No.332 or 302 buses and get off at Zhongguancun stop

• Tea Houses Hot Zone
A distinctive place in the downtown area. This is the possible reason why it is extensively popular. It serves not only a variety of, but also high-quality tea. All tea is made by the store itself and instantly prepared by professional masters to ensure the freshness. The garden-style decoration and design will give you a feel of returning to the nature.
- Address: No.69 Dongdan North Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing
- Directions: Take No.106 or 108 buses and get off at Dongdan stop

• Yuanchanghou Tea Ceremony House
With a business area around 200 square meters, the Yuanchanghou Tea Ceremony House is a lime-honored brand of China with a history of 80 years. Founded in 1912, it follows the style of Chinese classical architectures. It has five elegant private rooms with different styles. While carrying forward the tea culture, it also meets the need of visitors of different types through designing separate tea rooms of different styles including Japanese and European styles, promoting China's tea culture stepping toward the world more largely.
- Address: No.98 Xidan North Street, Xicheng District, Beijing
- Directions: Take buses No. 1, 4, 52 or 57 and gel oil at Xidan stop

• Wufu Tea Ceremony House (Fuchengmen Branch)
Wufu Tea Ceremony House, Beijing's first one with Chinese ancient culture as its base work and tea ceremony as its main business. Simple and elegant inner environment, fresh and quiet aura, melodious music together with continuous tea fragrance from time to time. A piece of Pure Land in the blatant metropolis. When you come to the quiet Wufu Tea Ceremony House from a dusty and noisy downtown area, listening to the melodious Chinese zheng music, tasting tea and appreciating tea sets and chatting with your friends, what a fairy place! There are thousands of tea things in the House. And specialists from Yixing are invited specially to make various purple sand products on the spot.
- Address: No.20 Fuchengmenwai Street, Xicheng District, Beijing
- Directions: Take No.103 bus or metro and get off at Fuchengmen stop