Photo: Pangbian in Black&white

Emi documented her “clients,” which ranged from random food-aware artists to large corporate entities. The end result gives an interesting parallax view of Beijing food culture.

Dumpling-making begins in the wee hours of the morning at this place, one of the few in the alley open past 2.

Liked this band Which Park from Dalian.

Offset: Spectacles are putting out a cassette tape on tuesday June 15 at D22. I found out they’re going to be releasing tapes for several Chinese bands and the bassist also makes a zine. So we made them this flyer.

同时，由他们建立的 Nojiji 地下文化品牌至今也有六年时间了。这次小雷音新的空间要大很多，有足足300多平米，空间有分为两层，第一层有青年旅社，可提供远道的来客住宿，空间确实比较大，看上去确实像是旅馆，还有就是Nojiji的乐手们的排练房也还是在一层，二楼是酒吧、演出场地、还有50-60米长的走廊空间里布置展出各种作品，包括艺术装置，绘画，海报，还有Nojiji发表系列作品的陈列等。

From the elegantly revamped siheyuan space in an otherwise typically dark and dusty hutong to the restaurant’s prize dish (a sweetened black rice cake molded to look like a coal briquette atop a heavy oven-like platform that is neither particularly tasty (unless you’re wild about pure glutinous textures), nor particularly settling on a cultural level), the restaurant brings light to a kind of tension between “local” traditions and modern dining expectations.