Beijing

A tale of a quick trip to Beijing.

... Jingle Bells. Luke gives us our gifts-maoku-or hair pants. These are incrediably soft woolen long underwear that everyone in Beijing wears. Now, prpoerly clothed Luke takes us to one of his favorite eating spots in his neighborhood for chwar-lamb ...

From Jingshan Park, our tour continued to the Forbidden City which is just the north of the park. The Forbidden City was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Now known as the Palace Museum, it is situated to the North of Tiananmen ...

... Chinese abroad, I also met a guy from Boston... As I said, the club was about 50% foreingers... Interesting to see Beijing's underground hip hop scene... After the throat singer the hip hop group took stage.  These were all guys that ...