We've got a few more blips to report on the bar and resto radar. To start, after years of silence bordering on obscurity, Nepali Kitchen has re-emerged with a new restaurant. This time, they're crossing the border to India with Tikka. The place has been open for just over a week in the same arts and eats complex that houses Di Shui Dong and Southern Barbarian.

Around the corner from that, where Ruijin and Julu Lu meet there is a new Turkish joint by the name of Kebab King. Unlike Tikka, however, we've given this place a try. Our advice: turn your back to the entrance and walk forward for a many steps as possible. No one should have to pay nearly 70 kuai for day-old chicken döner kebab barely warmed over, bathed in grease, scattered over flat bread like a dog's dinner, and served with a mealy tomato. Awful. Just awful. Still, if you'd like to see for yourself it's there and open for business. Just an FYI for you...

New to the Xintiandi area is de Bellotas, a Spanish wine and tapas bar, that, as the name suggests, specializes in Iberico ham. Sounds intriguing enough. If you're unfamiliar with Iberico ham, it's arguably one of Spain's greatest contributions to gastronomy. The pigs are raised on a steady diet of acorns, giving their ham a rich, luscious fat content and a unique nutty character. In addition to that, they're dealing in other signature Spanish charcuterie like chorizo sausage as well as Spanish cheeses. We have yet to stop by, but the place sounds intriguing.

Finally, a quick sprint to the outskirts of Jing'an, where you'll find UVA. Another wine bar, this one's focus is selections from Italy's Piemonte, home to powerhouse appellations like Barolo and Barbaresco. Those are hard to move in bulk, so they're probably pouring some more affordable Barberas and Dolcettos as well. In addition to wine, there is a kitchen serving pizzas, paninis, salads, and imported Italian cheeses and cold cuts. Another plus: they've got an aperitivo special: 60 kuai for two glasses of house wine with a selection of finger foods every Monday through Friday from 7-9pm.

Local design collective NuoMi (Brown Rice Designs) are holding a fashion show this Saturday to showcase their fall-winter collection.

If you're not familiar with NuoMi, they work with local people living in poverty, those with special educational needs or special conditions that prevent them from working a regular job, to help them create sustainable businesses designing and making women's and children's clothing.

The aim is to offer viable ways to supplement their incomes and teach them useful skills that they can turn into small businesses. Around half of NuoMi's clothes are made in people's homes on sewing machines and looms provided by the charity. But there's a real focus on quality, too, as most of it is hand-tailored.

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Finally. Our long nightmare of art house, nerd horror, some depressing crap from, like, the '70s and... gah... "films with messages about real people" or something is over. Shit gonna blow up in June.

All throughout June, your friends at Sub-Cinema are giving US THE PEOPLE what we want and showing a full month of '80s action movies staring the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Predator, JCVD, JCVD's kicking power, *cough* Mel Gibson *cough*, and more. Here's what's on:

Tuesday, June 4: Rambo: First Blood (1982)

Tuesday, June 11: Bloodsport (1988)

Tuesday, June 18: Lethal Weapon (1987)

Tuesday, June 25: ARNIE DOUBLE BILL!!! feat. Commando (1985) + Predator (1987)

All this at Dada. No entry fee. Doors at 8pm; Movie at 9pm. Free popcorn. All these are in English with Chinese sub-titles.

But the sweet sound of AK-47 gunfire -- baby, that's universal.

A suggestion to the organizers: free shots from the bar whenever someone is frozen in liquid nitrogen and punched into a million pieces.