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 Beijing Music Radio while drinking beer. I usually start my evening at this restaurant with a chinese draft beer for 5 yuan, sometimes buying two! The next beer would be a Heineken for 20 yuan. Anyway one night we where eating at a local restaurant at Dongzhimen Nei Dajie only 6 minutes walk away from home. We where eating a Sichuan Hot Pot and I was very happy about this evening! Later I go to this local restaurant. The other restaurants at Dongzhimen Nei Dajie tell me I can go there, but it is much more expensive! It is, but for a westerner it is a price level that is ok! Here I also meet 
westerners from countries like Russia, Italy, White Russia, Rumania, Spain, Germany, USA, England and many more countries. I must confess one thing that I did not do at this restaurant! And I do really regret it! But first you must understand anoher thing in life in Beijing! At our apartment Liping´s mother is living, and she wants to give us free food all the time! This is very nice and free, but we also have to eat out during our stay. This is the main reason I did not eat at this restaurant, but I can tell you that all other persons eating here was more than satisfied with the food and service here! Everybody was happy with their food and the prices of it! I talked to many peoples during my nightly visits. One night I talked to a man in english and he also talked to Liping in chinese. Then through her I found out he spoke german and we started talking as I know fluently german. 
After some 20 minutes we both found out that his family was from Denmark, and now we started talking swedish! It´s a very small world we live in! He had been living in Beijing for 6 years and working with selling apartments in Beijing. We talked for a long time about everything, but also some of the value of Liping´s apartment. Now we know that it has in one year gone up to at least three times the original value! So I strongly recommend this place for dining out at night! Also we where very lucky with the local wheather during our 30 days in Liping´s home town Beijing. The summer started 10 days earlier than in 2006. So we had hot summer with temperatures between 25 to 35 degrees celsius during all our stay! We could sit outdoors at night every night here. Lucky ones we are! So good!Zai jian!
Peter
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