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Stone Boat Café

During the summer months, this dinky but charming bar—set right at the edge of a lake in Ritan Park—hosts an array of live music acts. Blues, rock, folk, jazz, and oddities like Mongolian throat singing are all performed on a small, prow-shaped stage; the crowd, with its lively contingent of expats, diplomats, and language students, is always appreciative (and helped along by the $3 pints of Tsingtao).