Feeling the chill? The latest agenda is designed to guide you through the coming months with tips on what to eat to stay warm, where to shop for winter clothing and more. Take our cover feature, which highlights the many varieties of hot pot – both traditional Chinese huo guo and a few alternative twists on that formula – on offer in Beijing. Keeping with the unavoidable theme of cold weather, we’ve got a list of places to stock up on all those winter wardrobe essentials, and a roundup of fun ideas for indoor family outings.

In Spotlights, we talk to Domus’ new executive chef, Guillaume Comparat, The Ritz-Carlton Beijing’s spa director, Vanicha Phaphoom, gives us tips on winter skincare, and we go behind the scenes at Drei Kronen 1308 with brewmaster Hans Gerner.

We’ve also got new offerings like Igosso’s Italian cuisine, Cantonese dining in elegant surroundings at Beijing Empire, Room 101 is reborn as bar-cum-Mediterranean-restaurant Ginkgo, and the latest in a spate of new Wudaokou cafe-bars, Rendezvous. And of course, we’ve got detailed Day-by-Day event listings for happenings around Beijing over the next two weeks!

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