The underground teahouse where Liuxiaolingtong(六小龄童)chooses for us to meet is the last place you’d expect to find one of China’s biggest TV stars.Tucked away in the basement of an apartment complex in southwest-central Beijing,the teahouse looks like a gambler’s hideout:dim,smoky,loud.As a boredlooking attendant leads us into a small,fluorescent-lit tea room,I reflect that this is the worst possible place to conduct an interview—it’s dark,it’s cramped,and it’s filled with the noise The underground teahouse where Liuxiaolingtong (six children) chooses for us to meet is the last place you’d expect to find one of China’s biggest TV stars .ucked away in the basement of an apartment complex in southwest-central Beijing, the teahouse looks like a gambler’s hideout: dim, smoky, loud.As a boredlooking attendant leads us into a small, fluorescent-lit tea room, I reflect that this is the worst possible place to conduct an interview-it’s dark, it’s cramped, and it’s filled with the noise