Hello all! We’ve gotten word from local neighborhood organizers of the first Nanluoguxiang Street Festival for 2008! This weekend will celebrate the Nanluoguxiang neighborhood with street vendors, live music, and potentially another hutong cat walk fashion show from our friends at Plastered. Make sure you save the dates for April 12 and 13!
Stay tuned and we’ll keep you posted on the latest updates for the first Nanluoguxiang Street Festival of the year.
Here is an article from CRI about last year’s festival at Nanluoguxiang. Below is a picture from the first cultural festival at Nanluoguxiang back in 2006.
The Nanluoguxiang Street Festival has been postponed as of April 1st. We are awaiting word from the local government as to when the festival will take place. We will keep you posted, so stay tuned!
After 2.5 long months of preparation, we are extremely happy to have finally opened the doors to our NLGX Design & Cafe shop in Beijing’s old city area of Nanluoguxiang. This weekend we hosted old friends and new friends, and were lucky enough to be treated with the first warm weekend of 2008!
Thank you all for your support! Without you all, our first NLGX shop would not have been possible.
We’d like to offer a special thanks to:
- Kerry from Coolava Islands Coffee for her premium roast beans and supplies
- Rick from Pilot Coffee for the imported espresso machine and water filtration system
- Mr. Zhao for managing renovations
- Leon and WeiWei for the delicious homemade cookies
- Fabio and Ely from Gustomenta for supplying our gelato
- Mr. Zheng for our rush order of t-shirts
- Sanny from Santa Fe for the Chinese furniture and the Indonesian decorations
- Yuzhou from CRI for her all-around help and support
- Lu Chengjun and Lijie for the Saturday afternoon jam session
- Casey from Wokai.org for helping to build our gelato machine
- and of course our friends and family for all the support!
See grand opening pictures here!
