One Night in Beijing

18 Feb 06

For this 2nd weekend, we went to a few places.

The first was 国贸, where we passed our passport photos and copies of visa to Mary for her to do our Peking Uni registration. Then I poped over to 西单 to shop for the books Yunxin wanted. Din manage to get all of them though ...

Then we went over to 老舍茶馆 for tea and a afternoon matinee performance. Not bad a place really. The performance was quite good, got 相声，单弦，变脸，magic .. but the best was still the 口技。

Cute waitress at 老舍茶馆 =P
Exquisite 点心 at the 茶馆.

After the performance, we walked over to Tiananmen for the flag lowering. Pity we were not able to jostle for a good place to take photos of the ceremony. It's crowded almost everyday loh ...
The 5 guys at 四惠东.

And the 4 girls.

After sunset and the flag lowering ceremony, we walked over to 全聚德 for the famous Beijing Roasted Duck. Me in front of the shop:


A whole duck would have costed RMB198 (abt SGD$40) each and serves about 2-3 persons. But we opted for a RMB70 set (serves 1), as below:
A plate of roasted duck skin, fresh spring onion, sweet sauce, a cup of duck bone soup (not in picture) and popiah skins (not those eggy skins you see in SG, and abt twice thicker than popiah skins). It was the most expensive meal we've had in Beijing. Was it really very nice? Is Beijing Roasted Duck really nicer in Beijing? nah ... It was very 腻 at the end though. No wonder the waitress kept trying to push us to buy juices and beer to cut the oilyness.

Today's temperature:
-2C to 8C

posted by taxi taker @ 8:17 PM