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Extraordinary Eats, Historical Wonders, Strange Tourism

Video of the Cultural Revolution Restaurant

I gave all the juicy details of this restaurant where you can make merry, while celebrating the best of the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward, earlier this week. But here, for your pleasure, is some video of the mad show and the flag-waving audience. For China: For elsewhere:

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Andy Deemer / Leave a comment
Extraordinary Eats, Historical Wonders, Strange Tourism

Relive the Cultural Revolution (aka The Weirdest Dinner Theater in Beijing)

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Update: read the story below, but don't miss the video of the performance! "Two foreigners in the RED restaurant?" Reverb howled, "I think this will be more fun than the restaurant itself!" Red Restaurant, in the east of Beijing, is an opportunity to relive the passion and pain of China from the late 50s through the late ...

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Andy Deemer / 3 Comments