Beach Bumming in Tulum

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

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

Yes, I Like Baozi

Call­ing Customers

Water and Coconut

Sell­ing Meat

Cook­ing

Meat Again

Del­i­ca­cies

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)