XIxi Friendship Hotel (Xixi Youyi Hotel) Beijing

... There are foods inspired from many countries but unfortunately, tend to stick with the same ingredients, sauces, and dishes.

Ironically, people who are accustomed to Western or Chinese food, tend to be biased in that direction saying their cuisine is superior. Luckily, growing up with both, I don’t have a strong preference for one or the other and so I will try to give a fair comparison of both ...

... failed to honour the bookings at the price stated in the confirmation slips.

I had booked a triple room at the Longfu Temple Hotel for 6 nights at the cost of RMB 238 a night. The room was clean and adequate for our needs. A huge plus was that 50 metres away was a subway station.



A word about the Beijing subway – it’s fantastic. Most ...

... to us and one man counted in English and exclaimed, "there are seven of them!"

We arrived in Yichang on 22 May and Fay, our local guide, took us to a park where we headed towards a childrens playground, but on closer inspection we discovered it to be an outside gym. Afterwards we had our first taste of a chinese banquet and learned about dining etiquette, e.g.

Don't order individually - everyone shares the food
The rice is served last as a filler ...

The cost of being the world's cheap factory is starting to accumulate. As this story indicates: Every 30 seconds, a baby is born with physical defects in China, all thanks to the country's degrading environment, an official of the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC) has said. "The number of newborns with birth defects is constantly increasing in both urban and rural areas," Jiang Fan, vice-minister of the NPFPC said ...

... I've been studying on and off. I have a placement test next week. That will help place me in the appropriate classes. There are listening, speaking, and writing classes, and the test scores in the prior categories will determine my schedule. The book is useful to study, but its not the same as having a teacher to help. Regardless, whether I'm studying a book by myself or in a classroom, the lessons have immediate application ...

... slapped down the Games' exclusive pork supplier for making extravagant claims about rearing Olympic pigs in luxury conditions. The firm's director, Liu Yanyun, caused a storm last August when he boasted that his pigs were being raised free of preservatives, steroids and hormones that could theoretically cause athletes to fail doping tests, and were being fed natural herbs and Chinese medicines and got to listen to music while they had their daily two hours of ...

... some of us got ice cream bars, which tasted so good. And we all looked at our little souvenir books with the group picture we took upon first arriving at the wall. For seven bucks equivalent, why not? One of those things you never know if you'll be able to do again. On the way back I got all my companions to sign the inside of my memento photo book, and we drowsed and chatted. We also passed a bizarre prison that was halfway ...

... su interior. Elegimos una mesa en el mismo patio y pedimos el menú. Una vez los cuatro sentados comenzamos a inspeccionar el menú, menos mal que tenia fotografías y el texto también estaba en ingles. Yo comencé a ojear prestando bastante atención a los platos de carne. Tras mirar varias veces todas las paginas del libreto, no podía creer lo que veian mis ojos. Excluyendo tan solo dos platos y los vegetales el resto de la carne era de procedencia canina. Todo es perro dije yo sin ...

... collection of 113,000 historic and cultural artefacts unearthed in Shaanxi Lunch in local restaurant. Afternoon tour to Forest of Stone Steles Museum which holds 3,000 stone steles of different periods from the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty Airport transfer for your flight MU2157 (18:00-19:50) for Shanghai. Dinner on board. Arrive ...

... restauraunt. The menus had pictures with chinese and loose english translations it turned out. We orded a chicken dish and a beef stir fry, seemd ok enough. Then we kind of worked out that the beef was actually beef intestines.......not the best. We didnt know then what to think of the chiken dish...so we just ate the rice. God bless McDonalds! We were going to spend paddys day in Beijing but we decided to head off to Hanoi in Vietnam.