Super 8 (Beijing Shijingshan Jiu Jiu Yuan)
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Beijing Part Deux
... fried chicken with lemon sauce, fried fungus and golden lotus with oyster sauce, stewed egg noodles and mushrooms in oyster sauce, fried white lotus buns, and fresh fruit platter. To drink we have beer, wine, or soft drinks. A small mouthful of wine is poured in all our glasses. When it’s time to toast, we say “gan bei” (gom bay) and down the wine. Mike explains to us as he works the room during dinner that the small beer glasses ...
A red city
... if we were freaks. What were the strange white people doing in the Chinese mall?! We walked around the block looking for something to shop for but all we found was some fingernail clippers (which was perfect because we lost the ones we brought and I needed to cut my toenail that was falling off). We decided to head over to a little pastry shop and get smoothies. I had a rose smoothie and wesley got a lemon one. The rose smoothie was ...
Breathtaking Beijing
... we got. Everything was much greener and it already seemed much cleaner. We pulled into the Beijing station at 2pm and once we got outside it was sweltering. Apparently 34•c. We pulled up to the Xihua Jade Hotel and checked in. The hotel looked nice and clean and first impressions were good. Our room is really nice, only problem is glass doors to the toilet and showers. Once Liam and I had had much fun filming each other doing a twosie through the glass window it was ...
Day 43-The Great Wall of China
... very basic and small (considering) and all round just a teensy bit communist looking. When the actual show started though it didn't matter. We hadn't really known what to expect but we were more than impressed, the Chinese certainly know how to put on a show that's for for. The Gymnasts were doing things that made us hurt just looking at them! There was overly dramatic action-thriller subtitle style music playing the entire ...
Follow the leader
... find quieter places. After 5 hours we had probably ony seen half of it but those things connecting our legs to the pavement were beginning to complain. Weather still sunny and clearish blue sky. Not only are we having more success on the metro but we are beginning to cross roads without feeling that we are dicing with death with each step. I'm sure that there are some rules on rights of way but they are still a bit of a mystery to us. Variations on rickshaws are even ...