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Nicole, Gung Ho! Allstar

Meet Nicole, a Gung Ho! Allstar

You may have seen Nicole manning the frontline at the Sanlitun store, or possibly on our Titanic-themed English training video (only 2D sadly). The sharp-eyed will have recognized her from our cheeky April Fools Day prank. Here she is showing her slick POS skills.

Where are you from?

I’m from Tieli, a small city in Heilongjiang.

How long have you been in Beijing for?

One year.

Do you like it here?

Yes. I really like it here. The weather is much better than my hometown. The winter is too cold and the Summer is too hot.

How long have you worked at Gung Ho!

9 months.

What do you like about Gung Ho?

The energy is really good, everyone is really passionate about working here. It’s exciting because the we’re growing really fast. And everyone here is quite young so it’s fun.

What do you like to do in your spare time?

I like to stay home and play computer. I watch TV shows and movies, I just hang out.

You don’t go out at all?

I don’t go out often but when I do I go crazy. I like to go out and eat and drink and have a good time. I can eat and drink a lot.

Really??

Yes, I’m from Dongbei.

Ah.

Nicole has been promoted and now works in the finance department

Spring Starving Artist: Yangzi

Check out our brand new Spring box design by the lovely Yangzi!

I had the opportunity to meet Yangzi to mess around with some of the coloring – she’s incredibly sweet and dresses like a hipster so… we got along just fine. The piece is traditional Chinese brushwork on rice paper, a particular medium Yangzi generally doesn’t employ that often – which is pretty hard to believe; the apparent simplicity belies the amount of detail in the piece.

Thanks again to the amazing LEAP magazine for their awesome efforts in curating our Starving Artist series! Check out a preview of their latest issue here.

Hello Spring!

Cherry Blossoms up on the Wall ~ Kristen Lum

Spring is here! That glorious time when our gallant delivery team strip off their heavy black winter jackets and let their glorious pink t-shirts shine forth like a light unto the darkness, er, beige-ness.

Also not unlike… a cherry blossom. (Segueway!) Check out these amazing pics courtesy of girl-about-town (and countryside) Kristen Lum on here awesome blog Lumdimsum.

If you’re of a similar outdoorsy bent, then you could do far worse than hooking up with the Beijing Hikers, pictured below doing something mental way outside our delivery zone. Flip over to their website for hiking schedules and amazing pics of the Chinese Outdoors. In their own words:

Beijing Hikers practices eco-friendly tourism, using the “take only photographs, leave only footprints” approach to hiking, and employing local guides to assist us, aiming to have a positive effect in the areas that we hike in.

And apparently when hiking with them there is no need to worry that you’ll be taken on a detour to shop for jade ornaments. No internet and no shopping?

TBJ Reader Restaurant Awards!

Super Tuesday!

Please don’t forget to vote for Gung Ho! in the Beijinger’s Reader Restaurant Awards! You can vote here.

Voting ends this Tuesday!

The Hutong & Gung Ho! Pizza Making Competition

Go ‘Beyond the Mediterranean’ with the Hutong Kitchen!

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“Gung Ho! Pizza – Beijing’s premiere pizzeria (Aw! -Ed.) – and The Hutong Kitchen – Beijing’s premiere cooking school – are teaming up to bring you a culinary competition that promises to take the meaning of pizza to a whole new level. On Friday, March 23, we invite you to roll up your sleeves and transform into master chefs, bringing us beyond the land of pizza – beyond its olive groves, sun glistening seas and blue skies that stretch into forever – to the contemporary pizza creations that have transformed the tradition of pizza making into a gourmet art form.

Our Beyond The Mediterranean pizza-making competition is limited to 12 teams of 2 participants each. You will create your own pizza, with access to Gung Ho’s signature-secret-recipe dough, as well as the customary list of veggies, meats, cheeses, and pizza condiments. BUT, each team will have to bring their own secret ingredients, and will be expected to move past the Margherita…”

Check out their www.thehutongkitchen.com for details!

Artist Yan Cong Goes 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!

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

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”

**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:

• 2 tickets to the Bachelor & Bachelorette Charity Auction this February 10 (supporting awesome kids charities Magic Hospital and Morning Tears) and featuring the Beijing Beatles
• 2 movie tickets
• 2 vouchers for 2 master cocktails from Georges Bar
• Lots of Gung Ho! stuff!

Exclamation Point: February

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!

Gung Ho! Team hits the slopes!

Snow! Snow! Snow!

Every quarter we have different goals and targets and stuff, and if we hit them all, we get to do something fun! So this quarter the Gung Ho! Team went skiing! It was amazing! Everyone will be raving about it for days! Despite being from snowy Dongbei, it was the first time for a lot of them! You can see how much fun they had in the pics below.

Oh, and Chef Jason gets +10 marketing points for bringing the flag. What a legend.

Gung Ho vs Agenda!

Check us out in the new Agenda!

Interested to know what makes Gung Ho! tick? Pick up a copy of the new Agenda where Jade, John and I plus Skott from New Seed Creative Consulting spill the beans on what gives the Gung Ho! Team it’s get up and Go! Go! Go!

My favorite un-contexted quote is:

“If they hadn’t stood on the landmine in the training game, they wouldn’t have blown up.”

Many thanks to Jennifer Thome for putting our scattered thoughts in order and making us sound like the entrepreneurial geniuses we wish we were.

Check out the awesome Agenda article online here!