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Colorful String Hobby

Colorful String Hobby

If you often go along Sanlitun Autoparts Street, you may have seen a bar with an old door with golden nails. Through the window one can see red & blue lamplight. This is String Hobby Bar.

Hakka Food and Old Characters

Hakka Food and Old Characters

For many a struggling artist, earning enough to keep themselves in paint and paper, let alone pay the rent, is a perennial problem. Old Character Hakka, a newly opened restaurant in Sanlitun is artist Chi Nai’s solution, and also provides a space to hang his works. As Chi himself says, “I opened the restaurant to earn money and allow me to continue my artistic career till I die.”

Antiquity & Fashion in Harmony

Antiquity & Fashion in Harmony

Sheltered under the green trees, this is a distinctive store located in the quiet end of the Sanlitun embassy area.