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Wangfujing (王府井)

Submitted by on August 21, 2008 – 12:23 pm16 Comments

Bei­jing, here we are! We arrived Tues­day morn­ing, dirty and exhausted. The trip was much more tir­ing than I had thought… a six-hours Grey­hound ride, a five-hours wait in Toronto, then an eight-hours flight to Bei­jing, another twelve-hours lay­over in Fin­land, the plane was two hours late, another eight hours to Bei­jing and… that’s it. Phew.

Bei­jing is hot and humid, as I remem­ber it. The smell, the crowd, the peo­ple… that hasn’t changed. How­ever, there are now sky­scrap­ers every­where and the city is some­what cleaner. Sub­way lines were added and new buses were imple­mented. Peo­ple are still queu­ing hor­i­zon­tally though!

My first chal­lenge in Bei­jing was to find a 传接器插头。 In a word, a plug adapter for my lap­top that, of course, I had for­got­ten (as usual). Now, I hadn’t spo­ken Chi­nese in a while (except with my in-laws I guess) and it’s not the eas­i­est thing to find when you are jet­lagged and tired. But I finally bought one and here I am.

Wangfujing Street

Wang­fu­jing Street

One of the first place I really wanted to come back to was Wang­fu­jing, a huge street mar­ket. I had loved the atmos­phere when I was study­ing in Bei­jing and I was glad to see it didn’t changed much.

Gate To The The Market

Gate To The The Market

Yes, I Like Baozi

Yes, I Like Baozi

Calling Customers

Call­ing Customers

Water and Coconut

Water and Coconut

Selling Meat

Sell­ing Meat

Cooking

Cook­ing

Meat Again

Meat Again

Delicacies

Del­i­ca­cies

Silk Worms, Scorpions. 好吃极了!

Silk Worms, Scorpions. 好吃极了!

In case you’re won­der­ing, I didn’t have any of the above del­i­cacy. I love Chi­nese food but I draw the line at silk worm and live insects.

Related posts:

  1. Above Ground
  2. Bei­jing By Night
  3. Mod­ern Beijing (现代北京)
  4. The Great Wall (万里长城)
  5. Qian­men (前门)

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  • Graham says:

    Zhu, these images are so scrump­tious! (Espe­cially that beau­ti­ful one of you! You look absolutely gor­geous!!!). I love the pho­to­graph of the shop­keeper call­ing for cus­tomers… it kinda reminds me of a scene from an opera…lol! I love chi­nese food so much. I am lucky that we have recently has an authen­tic chi­nese super­mar­ket open up not far from me. So I have been exper­i­ment­ing with lots of dif­fer­ent foods recently (I even had steamed chick­ens feet the other day, but the jury is still out as to whether I actu­ally liked them). I would love to visit China and Japan to learn how to pre­pare and cook food like they do.

    Thank you so much for shar­ing these moments with us :) and once again, that pho­to­graph of you is sooooooooo beautiful.

    Gra­hams last great read…A lit­tle pre­view of where I live and work

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