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Feb 22

TBJ Reader Restaurant Awards 2012

The Beijinger Reader Restaurant Awards 2012

First the Grammy’s, now this??

Last year we were lucky enough to pick up a runner-up plaque for Best Pizza as well as an Editor’s Pick for Best Delivery – both incredible honors for our cheeky little (then) startup that hadn’t even been around for a year!

This year we’ve been nominated not just for Best Pizza but also Best Salad too! Which is amazing given the competition in that field!

The competition is going to be fierce this year, with brand new pizza joints joining the fray but with your help, who knows? We might even take the crown this year! So please, if you have a minute, jump onto the Beijinger’s website and vote for us now! You can vote in as many or as few categories as you wish, so don’t worry about getting stumped in the “Best Organic Nepalese Tapas” category.

Thanks for all the support!

Rich, Jade, Anthony and Josh

Me (Rich Akers), El Capitan Jade Gray, Lord Anthony Ross of House Opposite and Sir Josh, Knight of the Wu at the 2011 TBJ awards!

Feb 21

Artist Yan Cong Goes Gung Ho!

Yan Cong at Gung Ho!

Yan Cong gets his pizza on at the Lido store!

I’m sure you’ve all seen his incredible box design already, but here’s the face behind the artwork! We asked for something evocative of Winter in Beijing and boy did he deliver. Ice skating in Hou Hai is still one of earliest and most vivid memories in Beijing.

Detail alert! The portrait that Yan Cong sent me was a little too big for the space but it was so cute I had to use it. I ended up spitting it into two: the large box features Yan Cong (sans yifu), and the medium box features his actual cat (and occasional model), Xiao Shui looking up at him!

Thanks again for Phil Tinari and Einar Engström at LEAP magazine for curating this amazing project!

Yan Cong's cat, Xiao Shui

Feb 17

2012 Charity Bachelor Auction Wrapup

Gung Ho! Bachelor Jade!

Who will get the Final Rose? Or, as they say in Beijing, “Mai hua!”

So the Bachelor & Bachelorette Charity Auction last Friday was a massive success, packing out both floors of the Hilton’s Zeta Bar with hopeful (and cashed up) singletons and raising nearly 20,000rmb for orphan charities Magic Hospital and Morning Tears. A great time was had by all with even the empty-handed getting to dance the night away to the Beijing Beatles.

And what about our own Jade Gray? Well, JG broke the auction limit in true Gung Ho! style and ultimately went for the princely sum of 3,500rmb!

If you’d like to know how he managed this impressive feat, check out Beijing Boyce’s far more detailed wrap-up here.

Seriously. Check it out.

I don't get off my bike for less than 3,500rmb

Feb 16

Time Out Food Awards 2012

Time Out Reader Awards 2012

Vote for your friendly neighborhood Gung Ho!

Vote for Gung Ho! in the Time Out! food awards’ hallowed Readers’ Choice category! This award is 100% reader voted, so I say we start re-zoning electorates, er, delivery zones now. Can anyone say Gung Ho! SuperPAC?

Click here to vote or head to www.timeoutbeijing.com/readerschoice.

The closing date for people to submit their entries is April 6 at 6pm!

Feb 14

GHP-TV: Episode III – Gung Harder!

Watch the final climactic episode of the Two-Girl Trilogy!

Hopefully these little videos are as much to watch as they were to shoot – because they were a lot of fun to shoot! One of my most memorable uh, memories was probably standing outside my door with a huge fan and a big handful of crushed rice crispies. And the second was probably the time I was supposed to pour a bucket of water on Clara’s head but missed. From 10 inches away. Pretty funny. Take it again!!

Big thanks to my bro Handsome Rich for guest starring. He was very obliging and patient, though he refused take his shirt off. One at a time, ladies.

Feb 6

UPDATE V-Day: Take another little piece of my heart

Gung Ho! Heart Shaped Pizza

Don’t go breakin’ my heart-shaped pizza

The Gung Ho! Team wishes you a happy Valentine’s day! To celebrate this most romantic of holidays, Pizza Genius John O is literally giving you his heart (-shaped pizza combo). Available from February 6th to the 19th – everyone who grabs a combo goes into our special Valentines draw for a chance to win some great prizes!

Heart Shaped Combo 109rmb:

  • One Large Heart Shaped Pizza (any kind)
  • One medium “Our Fave” salad
  • Cheese balls or Four Egg Tarts
  • Two “Cool Drinks”

Warning!**Please note** As this is a seasonal promo, it’s not available on the online ordering site and will have to be ordered by phone! Sorry for the inconvenience.

Prizes include:

Gung Ho! Bachelor

Georges Bar!

Feb 3

Exclamation Point: February

'Wow!' he exclaimed!

Online Ordering is Go! Go! Go!

Subscribe to The Exclamation Point now, the Monthly-ish Gung Ho! newsletter. Packed to the brim with stuff you may not already know! Subscribe by clicking this link or by popping your details into the box on the sidebar.

Check out the latest issue here! Check out all past issues here!

Jan 31

Gung Ho! Online Ordering!

The Future of Pizza

Welcome to the future!

For the last few months we’ve been working on a super secret project and today we can finally tell you what it is!

Gung Ho! Online Ordering! You’re Gung Ho! ordering experience just got even more convenient!

Here are some tips to get the most of your GHP Online experience:

  • Use a modern browser! Our faves are Chrome and Firefox but we support all modern browsers. Unfortunately, like a lot of popular web services we don’t support Internet Explorer 6. There’s an ever growing list of reasons why, but the shortest answer is that it’s over 10 years old now!
  • Wait for the whole thing to load! The webpage may take a few seconds to load but once it’s up you’ll be able to check out all that Gung Ho! goodness as well as flip back and forth from the order and take out sections without loading anymore pages.
  • Register! After you’ve setting a GHP account, you can literally make an order in 5 seconds or less! And registering is easy! You can register first by clicking on the ‘register’ link at the top right hand corner of the page or auto-register after you’ve placed your order. This is in no way compulsory so by all means, give it a go first :)
  • Finally, in the wonderful world of technology things can go wrong. If you have any problems, please help us fix them by letting us know! You can call the delivery hotline for urgent stuff or email us at johnandjade@gunghopizza.com.

Enough bullet points, check it out for yourself!

Happy internetz!

Jan 21

Happy Spring Festival 2012

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Gung Ho Na Lai!

Hi guys! The team at Gung Ho! would like to wish you all a safe lucky dragon year in 2012! And remember; if you’re messing with fireworks, lay off the baijiu!

And now here’s a video of the Gung Ho! team singing a song about a dragon! Rawr!

FYI, we’re sending a lot of our guys home for CNY so our opening hours will be as follows:

  • January 22, 23, 24: Closed (Sorry!)
  • January 25 ~ 29: 11am ~ 2pm and then 5pm ~ 9pm

And then back to standard operating hours from January 30 (11am to 11pm).

Also, as a seasonal treat (wait ’til you see our Paddy’s Day Guinness Pizza) we’re doing a promo on our pre-paid VIP cards. Purchase any VIP card and get a 100rmb voucher as a kicker!! VIP cards are pre-paid pizza credit and carry a discount depending on the card you get. 1000rmb = 10% off, 2000rmb = 20% off and 3000rmb = you guessed it, 30% off. Offer available until Jan 30. If you’re interested, drop us a line at johnandjade@gunghopizza.com!

Happy Chinese new year! May your VPN never fail!

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