By accident we ended up in the multilingual dictionary museum of the Forbidden City. It was out of the way and away from the crowds surrounded by a cool garden. A welcome break from the heat and crowds around the main buildings.
But we had a wonderful time inspecting the ancient Chinese multilingual dictionaries in Tibetian, Mongolian and other scripts. The pocket sized ones were the first keitai dictionaries.
How apt!
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@ Beijing
Rice husks and rice meal blended with skim milk and ice. Super yum after shopping in crazy silk market.
@ Beijing
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Is it a woori (sic) to keep your money in this bank?
/ bad jokes
Strangely enough here in Beijing it is just called roast duck! Go figure.
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Food was awesome. This restaurant chain is 140 years old specialising in duck. We had duck liver, duck heart and fab vegies as well as my fave Beijing duck.
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@ Beijing
High-rise apartments as far as the eye can see. Air quality a bit grim but Aiko seems to think it is like a haunted city as it is so big and not as crowded as she was expecting. Lots of people just lots of space too.
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Havent been to this city for a long time. First time in Summer.
First impressions are much better than last few times. Amazing what strong economic growth and upcoming Olympics will do for a city.
It is clean, ordered, happy people and honest-ish taxi drivers. Roads are great but the road rules are still optional for most people. Have seen a fender bender already. Not us but our driver did reverse up the freeway for about 50 metres when he missed the exit.
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We are off to Beijing for a few days work. Smallest plane ever! Less comfort than Aeroflot!
Will blog from Beijing. Watch this space!
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