In two days we’ll say goodbye to the rabbit year of 2011 and enter the dragon year of 2012 which starts from Jan 23, 2012. Before turning to the new page to write our new history, we at tour-beijing.com look back at the passing year of 2011 with a light heart. The year 2011 fell into a dormant…
Today, Jan 19, 2012 Beijing Xinhua International Tours Head Office holds its annual gala dinner to celebrate the past year 2011. As one of the oldeast travel agencies based in Beijing, Beijing Xinhua Tours has survived many twists and turns along its 23 years’s path. In the year 2011 Beijing Xinhua has made steady…
Chinese Lunar New Year (popularly known as Chinese Spring Festival) 2012 is around the corner, which falls on a 7-day holiday Jan 22 – 29, 2012. One way to jazz the festive atmosphere, is to stick paper cuts to windows. Chinese paper cutting decorates windows, are also colloquially called “Chuang Hua”, literally meaning”Window Flowers”. Paper cuts crafters cut paper with scissors or knife. Paper cutting…
How time flies! The 2011 year of Rabbit is saying goodbye and the 2012 Dragon is coming! With the 2010’s annual company gala dinner still lingering in mind, tonight we hold 2011’s annual gala party at a nice restaurant within walking distance of our office building. This year’s gala dinner party is smaller in size compared with previous…
Today is a big day for Tour-Beijing.com. Why today? Because today we say goodbye to outsourced, routine and uniform lunches! Because today we have home-cooked dishes for our office lunch! Because today we recreate the taste of our mothers” meatballs! Let’me show you some of the home cooked recipes by our office staffers (most Post-1980’s Generation) who were born with a golden spoon in her/his…
For many online companies like www.tour-beijing.com, Google is the God, the Sky, the Earth on which they live. Now everything can be googled. Google has empowered ordinary people to become experts in short time on some areas which were normally restricted to a handful of people who would spend years for learning on the specific aspects. Having Googled,…
Today we have our second potluck lunch in office. Everybody brings their favorite recipes, which they have cooked the day before. Now all these contained dishes are piled up waiting to be warmed in the microwave oven. At 12:30pm, we stop working and come to our meeting room, also serving as our dining room during the lunch time. All the warmed dishes are placed…
There are several ways to prepare for the coming Chinese New Year (Spring Festival). One is room or office decorations with door couplets, paper-cuts for windows and hanging charms. This morning we go to the nearest market to buy some Chinese new year auspicious things for office decorations. Every year we stick to…