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May 17

BCIS Spring in the City!

Gung Ho! Teamsters Mack and Nancy at BCIS

Gung Ho! Allstars Mack and Nancy at the BCIS Spring in the City event!

Last Saturday Nancy & I set up shop on Beijing City International School’s beautiful campus grounds to sling some pizza slices and spread the word about our new Shuangjing store! It was an amazing event; tons of people were about and the weather was… incredibly cooperative. I mean really. Forecast was for thunderstorms but all we got was non-stop sunshine. Amazing. There was live music, tons of games and events, Gung Ho! buddies Beijing Kids and The Hutong Kitchen were there along with many others. In all we sold nearly two hundred slices of pizza for charity!

Okay, Nancy doesn’t look super happy in the header pic which is weird because she’s basically a ray of sunshine in human form. To the utter surprise of no-one who’s ever ordered from her at Sanlitun, she rocked the stall. It turns out that in college she worked part time at a supermarket pushing samples!

Beijing City International School

BCIS is a not-for-profit day school who’s mission (should they choose to accept it) is to educate and empower students to be compassionate and inspired people, who act for the good of all and for the sustainable development of the world.

Mar 29

WAB Idol goes Gung Ho!

Ashley Cheng, winner of the 2012 WAB Idol!

Congratulations to Ashley Cheng, winner of the 2012 WAB Idol (and Gung Ho! fan), for her rendition of Adele’s “Someone Like You”

Entering it’s 7th year (!), the Western Academy of Beijing’s annual WAB Idol is a combined middle school/high school talent show completely organized by student run organization ‘Friday Night Lites”.

This year’s event was held on campus last Friday the 23rd of March, and was co-sponsored (for the second year on a row) by Gung Ho! Pizza! Maybe next year we’ll get a team together and enter!

For more information on the awesome WAB school, check out their website here. They also have a media page, so hopefully they’ll stick up Ashley’s winning performance there so we can all check it out!

Below is awesome Gung Ho! Girl Clara handing out pizzas at WAB with a couple of very well-dressed students.

Gung Ho! Pizza at WAB

Mar 27

TBJ 2012 Restaurant Award Wrapup!

Marketing Manager Sammi and I at the TBJ Awards

Marketing Manager Sammi and I at the TBJ Awards

Hey Gung Ho! Guys and Girls, thank you so much for your support! We ended up taking home Outstanding nods for not only pizza but salad too. Though of course we’re super proud of both awards, we’re extra proud of the latter award, representing as it does a massive change in how you guys think of us. We’re not just a pizza store! We’re passionate about delivering great healthy food and these awards were just the next step.

Go Gung Ho!

Feb 27

GHP Bike Safety Training with Ines Brunn

BMX Bandit!

At Gung Ho! Pizza we believe that when riding around Beijing’s dangerous roads safety comes first.

So we got renowned extreme bikie Ines Brunn to show us what not to do.

Don’t try this at home!

Ines Brunn has been riding competitively for over 20 years and owns a fixed-wheel bike and juggling store in Wudaoying Hutong called Natooke. She’s performed all over the world, given a TEDx Talk and even made dumplings while riding on CCTV! Check out her blog here!

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

Dec 28

2011 in pictures (Halloween)

Oscar does Gung Ho-lloween!

Okay, I’m starting from the end but I couldn’t wait. Check out Oscar VS the Halloween… uh… schoolgirl, Superman and a Bumblebee. Why wasn’t I on shift?! And check out these guys below; 10 points for this clutch Halloween win. “Uh hi, can I have a medium pepperoni and… 3 t-shirts, a couple of hats and a helmet?” *Click* “Let’s party.”

Gung Ho Imposters!

Sep 21

Jodi Smith: Gung Ho! Yoga

Black-belt Yoga Mistress (and Gung Ho! fan) Jodi Smith getting her Qigong on at the Great Wall ~ episode 10 of her series “30 Minute Yoga for Hotel Rooms”

Check out the fabulously fit (and presumably flexible) Jodi after the break. Read more

Aug 23

Great Wall Pizza Cook-off!

A couple of months ago, John, Jade and fixer extraordinaire Peter built a wood-fire pizza oven at the Gung Ho Hut, J & J’s beautiful property in Jiankou right beside the Great Wall. It’s built entirely from second-hand materials, from the scavenged bricks (sorry neighbors!) to the massive cast iron wok that forms the roof and took the better part of two days. Pretty impressive non? Read more

Jul 20

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Happiness is a Warm Gung Ho!

Beijing’s Own Fabulous Foursome enjoying a quick slice of Gung Ho pizza between sets. Ha! Bit hot out there lads? I don’t know if you’ve seen them live but they are pretty legit! Check out their website here for your next corporate function, ashram or bar mitzvah!

Cheers to Ian (‘Excellent’) Burns  for sending us the pic. If anyone has any other pics of celebrities or yes, ordinary people eating our savory fare (sorry, bad pun) send it in to us at johnandjade@gunghopizza.com!

Jul 10

Gung Ho Pizza’s coming to Beijing

Gung Ho Pizza is coming to Beijing! A delivery boy’s not safe!

Check out the awesome video we commissioned for our grand opening party.

Shot and cut by Martin Barnes and starring the one and only Gung Ho Bros., Jade and John and Ryan Xia. Guest starring myself and Skott Taylor. Shirtlessness was his idea.

Check out more info on Martin here at ThisCityArt.org.