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Horking, chicken feet and being the freakshow
... english people had probably never been in. the lady spoke zero english and looked terrified so for a while we gestured and played charades, and ended up pointing at a guy eating soup and dumplings and asked for that. We had no clue what was in the dumplings or whether we'd be served dog stew by accident ;P But thankfully she brought out exactly what the guy had.
10) dumplings are the most delicious thing of life.
they had minced pork, greens and ...
Temple of Heaven and the Acrobatics Show
... with excitement when I found a bottle opener that I'd been wanting, the vendor was over me like a hawk, I didn't stand a chance! Managed to come out with it for £2 so not too bad! We also got shoo'd away from a stall for suggesting a price way too low for a Christmas bauble, the lady actually looked disgusted at me. After the excitement of the Pearl Market we went to watch the Beijing Acrobatics show which ...
A weekend of parks & stadiums
... town. Caught up with a few friends over cold beers in the sunshine on the terrace, amazing how many people we know already & keep bumping into! Quickly popped back home to change for dinner.
Back in the UK Dad used to work with a lady called Shasha from China, after bumping into his old boss recently they got talking about the fact that Andy & I had moved to Beijing, and that Shasha is back in Beijing now with her husband Michael so ...
Arriving in Beijing
... status, there would be none, two or four. If the door had stone drums either side then it was the house of a General, and if it had stone squares it was the house of a civil servant. The majority of doors would also have a barrier to step over as well, as the Chinese believed that spirits could not lift their legs so that would stop them from entering.
We then continued on and went inside the courtyard of a hutong where one of the people who lived there, a descendant of one of ...
Last Day in Beijing!
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After, rearranging my purchases in my luggage for the third time, we departed for the center of Beiijing, where we visited the hutongs. The hutongs are residential neighborhoods which still form the heart of Old Beijing. I had my first experience riding on a rickshaw. It is a bicycle powered 2-seated taxi. These are used as well as very small compact cars due to the very narrow streets and alleys that run ...