Just off the main shopping street of Wangfujing is the city’s most popular night market. It showcases an array of Chinese street food from all over the country, from marinated chicken skewers, to stir fries and grilled silk worms. Most tourists come here to see the more exotic food like scorpions, snakes and seahorses, but [...]
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Cost of Living Comparison – Beijing, China
The wonderfully named Expatistan.com website has a tool showing the comparative cost of living in various cities around the world. I think their traffic is a bit heavy at the moment, but when it’s working it shows Beijing as being 61% cheaper to live in than London, which to me sounds somewhat on the high [...]
Olympic Forest Park – Beijing, China
The Olympic Forest Park was planted back in 2003 to provide assurance to the International Olympic Committee that the 2008 Beijing Olympics would be acceptably environmentally friendly by absorbing the increased carbon emissions. It sits at the northern end of the city’s central axis, directly above the Olympic Green Bird’s Nest area. The soil excavated [...]
Doing your best to fit in… – China?
I haven’t seen one of these hats since Vietnam, but I’m sure he’s having a lovely time whilst the two guys on the left try not to laugh… via reddit
Seahorses and Jellyfish – Beijing, China
It’s been a busy week of eating… The most outlandish meal was a turtle garnished with seahorses, a braised buffalo hoof and a side of shark lips. The most surprising would be donkey skewers – the meat was delicately flavoured and surprisingly tender, low in fat and overall very tasty. They were served in a [...]
Jian Bing
As mentioned in a previous post, my favourite street food, and possibly favourite food I’ve found in Beijing is the little street vendor right outside my apartment complex who sells spicy crepes. Now that I’ve learnt enough Chinese to find out they are called Jian Bing I can offer a better explanation of the process: [...]
Making Out In Chinese – Beijing, China
Browsing through the English language bookshop in Wangfujing I couldn’t help but pick up the phrase book called ‘Making Out In Chinese’. Here’s a screenshot I found later:
Banned Social Networks, by Country – Beijing, China
An interesting tool that details social networking sites banned in each country, and provides links to explanatory news articles. Click on a country, then select the web service below to see reasons (spurious or otherwise). BanRace @ http://www.investintech.com/articles/theworldsocialnetworkingbanrace/
Chaoyang Crystal BBQ – Beijing, China
There are over 800,000 Koreans in Beijing, which seems high until you realise that Seoul is only 598 miles away – considerably closer than Shanghai. They are mostly ensconced in a large area in the Chaoyang district, imaginatively called Korean Town. A happy by-product of this mass influx is the number of high quality Korean [...]
DaDong Peking Duck – Beijing, China
The only restaurant I’d heard of in Beijing before my arrival was DaDong, a strong contender for the maker of the best Peking Duck in Peking1. The first time I was in Beijing a few years ago I eagerly visited a restaurant called simply ‘Peking Duck’ and was presented with a plate of soggy duck [...]
