The arugula-youtiao salad (featuring walnuts and roasted pears), one of the many new food items now available.

Pair this with a soup, entree, and drink as part of our new lunch set.

We might have the best lunch value in Sanlitun. For just 65 RMB, enjoy three courses plus a drink (coffee, soda, Tiger draft). This deal’s good for a limited time only!

It’s 11/11, but don’t get down, you singles. Get yourself a date and come to The Bookworm, where you can get 22 percent off all your meals! Select books are also 22 percent off. (more…)

Australia’s celebrated multidisciplinary artist William Yang will perform The Story Only I Can Tell, an autobiographical masterpiece exploring the central threads of his search for identity, tomorrow at The Bookworm.

Yang, who was born of Chinese/Australian parents, grew up strongly identifying as Australian, although he looked Chinese. He suffered because of the way he looked as he was not as he appeared to be. He is also gay. He liberated himself from social expectation, and his search for identity is one of the main themes of his work. (more…)

We’re showing another Zhao Liang documentary this coming Monday: Crime and Punishment (2007), one of his earlier and best works. (more…)

The legend himself will be performing at The Bookworm on back-to-back nights this month. Mark Rowswell — better known to the Chinese-speaking world as Dashan — will be headlining two Chinese Humor Section shows, on Friday, November 20, and Saturday, November 21. (more…)