Houhai

The bank emphasizes borrowers such as Qu Xisheng , who runs a lakeside paddle boat concession in Beijing's popular Houhai restaurant and bar area.

Minsheng Banks on Small Borrowers William Kazer 2012

In Houhai, Minsheng has teamed up with a local merchants' association, which does much of the legwork in finding customers, recommending its members to the bank.

Minsheng Banks on Small Borrowers William Kazer 2012

It may end up like Sloping Tobacco Street in nearby Houhai, a completely commercialized area that has no authenticity but instead shops selling the same things over and over again.

Alice Xin Liu: Most Commercial Street in Beijing Turn off Visitors and Renters 2010

It may end up like Sloping Tobacco Street in nearby Houhai, a completely commercialized area that has no authenticity but instead shops selling the same things over and over again.

Alice Xin Liu: Most Commercial Street in Beijing Turn off Visitors and Renters 2010

Houhai is a Beijing phenomenon, a quiet area of shoreline devoured in less than a decade by a nightlife land rush.

At Beijing's Sex and da City, the Debauchery is Low-Key 2008

It was a warm Saturday night on Houhai, the lakeside bar strip, and Ms. Shen, 40, had stepped outside the club she co-owns.

At Beijing's Sex and da City, the Debauchery is Low-Key 2008

Panjiayuan, central Beijing's open-air market, where you can pick your way through handmade furniture, bike ride and history lecture through the city's vanishing hutongs, or alleyways, and around lively Houhai Lake.

NYT > Global Home 2011

The weekend brunches - which currently come with a complimentary Bloody Mary or Mimosa per person (my companions weren't drinking on Saturday, so I got moderately wrecked on their freebies) - could well become a regular indulgence: comparable to The Vineyard, but without (as yet) the crazy crowds; and only a couple of minutes 'walk from Houhai.

Chinalyst - China blogs in English Froog 2010

The weekend brunches - which currently come with a complimentary Bloody Mary or Mimosa per person (my companions weren't drinking on Saturday, so I got moderately wrecked on their freebies) - could well become a regular indulgence: comparable to The Vineyard, but without (as yet) the crazy crowds; and only a couple of minutes 'walk from Houhai.

Chinalyst - China blogs in English Froog 2010

Then they can widen that damn pesky Gulou Dongdajie so that officials can get to their renovated courtyards on the west side a lot quicker, not to mention create a north-south flyover so that automobiles can go directly off the second ring to the banks of scenic Houhai in mere minutes.

Chinalyst - China blogs in English thebeijinger 2010