Kweichow Moutai Feitian products and merchandise next to Shui Jing Fang Wellbay bottles and boxes and a terracotta soldier miniature statue.

The Ultimate Gift Guide for the Cook

Finding gifts can be overwhelming to some and an awesome challenge to others. With the holiday spirit in full...

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Pink Baijiu cocktail with mint on top in a whisky glass decorated with painted fowl with mist spilling from the top.

Inman Park’s Char Korean Bar & Grill is on track to open in January

Richard Tang of Craft Izakaya says he’s on track to open his Korean barbecue and yakiniku (traditional Japanese) restaurant...

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Cocktail in a glass with a lemon slice next to Moutai shot glasses.

The First and Only “Baijiu Bar” outside of China now in NYC!

Pop Style TV attended the opening of the first and only Baijiu Bar outside of China. Sounds great but...

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Various baijiu boxes and bottles lined up on a reception table.

Exploring Baijiu: A Look at China’s top white distillate and how to enjoy it on the U.S....

Vodka has long been the top white sprit stateside as its neutral and easily mixes with all kinds of...

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A Tasting of Chinese Wines

When I mentioned to a colleague that I was going to try a few Chinese wines, he looked at...

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Five people sitting at the bar at Peking Tavern, where a row of Kweichow Moutai Feitian packages on a shelf line the wall along with two traditional Chinese guardian lion statues. A bartender stands behind the bar shaking a cocktail shaker.

Meet the Bartender: Kate Chen of Peking Tavern

What makes a great bar? Decor is important, as are location and the right vibe. Blow one of those...

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Moutai cocktail in front of a carousel.

Bonding with Baijiu

He was like a kid in a candy shop. The first thing Orson Salicetti did when he decided to...

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Neat rows of pots storing baijiu with distillery workers holding a demonstration at a table with several glass jugs and shot glasses in the middle. The photo is mostly grayscale, except for the red seals on top of the jars in the middle.

An Old World Spirit Meets New York Scene

Baijiu, a potent Chinese spirit with a notoriously hard-to-like taste, has been called everything from “liquid razorblades” to “the...

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Diagonal rows of Hong Kong Baijiu bottles on a table.

Weekend Sip: 106-Proof Hong Kong Baijiu

It’s the most popular liquor in the world, but it has been described it as ‘liquid razor blades.’ Marketwatch’s...

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Bottle of Moutai Feitian and filled baijiu shot glass with the Moutai logo placed on a bartop.

This is the most popular liquor in the world

The back story: What’s the world’s biggest-selling spirits category? You’re probably thinking whiskey. Or vodka. It’s actually baijiu (pronounced...

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Various baijiu boxes and bottles lined up on a reception table.

Authentic Funk from China

If you ask any American who’s spent time in China about “baijiu,” they’ll cringe and describe a night of...

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3 Things you should know about Dukang Distillers

It’s said that once you taste China’s infamous national spirit baijiu ( ?…’) you never forget it. Roughly translated as...

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