One of the best meals I’ve ever had was in Beijing. There is this fabulous restaurant called Peking Duck, Private Kitchen. The duck is fantastic but the side dishes are equally amazing. This picture is of the duck meat spring roles. They were unbelievable. My other favourite was the bamboo-grilled asparagus. Tweet This Post
While in Mongolia, I wrote about what it was like to be a Ginger. In Beijing, it is like Mongolia times a hundred. Let us review the three main reactions to being Ginger. 1) Staring Children I can explain this fairly simply: Mongolia has a total population of just over 2 million. Beijing alone has [...]
All I can say is heck yes, we did a jumping photo on the Great Wall. Was it dangerous? Absolutely. Did a Chinese guy walking down the stairs shake his head and say “that’s dangerous”? Of course he did. Did that stop us from doing it anyway? Nope. My trip to the Great Wall was [...]
With the end of my time in Mongolia, the rest of my trip was quickly approaching. After a 30 hour train ride from Ulaanbaatar, I found myself at a pleasant hostel in downtown Beijing. I find Beijing deceitful. It doesn’t look that big on the tourist maps they give you, but it is monstrous. It [...]
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