Visit Beijing 北京 Blog

Ni hao! My local restaurant and late night pub at Dongzhimen Beixiao Dajie is my favorite restaurant to go to. It is my local place to go for beer and talking to people at night. I go here after my busy day touring all over the Beijing sights and walking the Nan Guan Park. After that eating at home or at another local restaurant. The personal is very helpful and service minded. They all speak chinese and some also speak russian. For me as an english speaking person this was a little bit more difficult. As I do only speak very little chinese. However the personel there had four persons working there that could speak some english. I give you some nique pictures of some of them. This place became something like a second home for me at late night. Here I could really sit down and relax after eating and Bejing sightseeing at late night. I used to go there something like 9 o´clock at night, returning home like 11 o´clock. In my regular way of sitting here included listening to the...

Ni hao! In todays blog I will tell you a little about food, eating and restaurants in Beijing 北京. Now Beijing food or Northern food is a combination of different areas varieties namely Hebei, Shangdong, Lower Yangzi River area, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang. Methods of cooking:- Barbecuing, deep-boiling, roasting, smoking and braising. Local products such as garlic, ginger, leeks, pork, spring onions, bean sauce, different spices, chilies, vegetables, particularly the Northern white cabbage, together with duck, pork, chicken, seafood, beef, and lamb are used to make many varieties of gourmet dishes. Accompaniment to Meals Wheat products such as noodles, bread, and dumplings are eaten with meals. Examples of Dishes Beijing Duck 北京烤鸭, Mongolian Hot Pot with Lamb or Beef, Sauteed Mutton with Scallion, Muslim Skewered Mutton, Shandong Chicken with Abalone and Cabbage, to mention but a few. As you would expect in such a large and varied country, there are many regional cuisines - and you...

Ni hao! Today I want to show you where I go shopping on my way to or back from the Nan Guan Park. I go to the local supermarket here in Beijing, Shanghai Hua Lian Supermarket 上海华联超市. In the same house three floors up is also the internet cafe I used to go to when needing an internet connection. Here I have to show my passport as ID, that is the law here. The staff is very friendly anb helpful. They can not speak english, but we manage the internet computer very easily. From here I sent my emails and checked in to our flight back to Stockholm via London. I paid 7 yuan for one hour. It´s very cheap. Now back to my park walks. I go shopping on my way back home and find this supermarket being very good. Here you can shop everything you need. And I mean everything! You can buy anything from food, wine, cameras, electronic products, clothes to taylored clothes. Yes they actually sell taylored clothes. For 500 yuan you will get your own chinese dress handmade. The Shanghai Hua Lian Supe...