Ni hao!A small blog post telling you about The Minan Residential Complex at Dongzhimen Nei Dajie in The Dongzhimen Area, Dongcheng District in Beijing. The southern border of the complex is Dongzhimen Nei Dajie. The northern border is Minan Jie, with
Dongzhimen High School and The Russian Embassy on the other side of the road. The eastern border is made up by the 2nd Ring Road. The western border is Dongzhimen Beixiao Dajie, with the Nan Guan Park and Club 19 on the other side of the road. The Chinese name of the complex is Minan Xiaoqu. The area has at least seven guarded entrances. There are many small roads inside and the one our apartment is situated on is Dong Yang Wei Jie. It is very close to the Dongzhimen subway station. Here we go shopping daytime or nighttime! We buy food and Tsingtao beer inside the complex. We buy ready made food, vegetables, bread, noodles, eggs and early in the morning 
also our ready made breakfast! I go there myself and buy my own Tsingtao beer. They don´t speak english, so I have to speak some chinese with them. I buy the beer, 60 cl bottles, for 2 yuan and I get half yuan back when returning the bottle. No problem for me as I can speak very easy daily chinese! And the people there are very friendly and helpfull. I get a family feeling from them all the time. It really feels like home! On the first two pictures you will see these stores, and we pass them many times every day during our month here. We go there buying breakfast, we pass them on our way to the buss or subway going shopping or sightseeing, we go there shopping day or night time, we pass them going to the Club 19 restaurant for drinking beers at night or going to eat at some 
restaurant at the Dongzhimen Nei Dajie! We pass them all the time, also on our way back after all this! The last week here we went to the local barber shop to cut our hair. They washed our hairs both before and after cutting it. The price was amazingly low, only 20 yuan! So cut your hair before going home! Daytime or nighttime most people spend their time outdoors, with different activities. Some play games in local bars, or eat at local restaurants or meet up for things to do in local small parks. Everybody is ut in the streets, very unlike what we do in Sweden. The third picture shows you the local street where all this happened. Now the fourth picture is showing a local map of Minan Residential Complex. Our house looks like an X at the northeastern corner. We live on floor 5 of 15 floors in the house. When we go out or come home there is an elevator girl pressing the floor button for us in both elevators! It feels very luxury! While they wait for us and others they read books. I love Beijing! I love that they are there waiting for me to come home late at night from my beer round at our local Club 19 restaurant next to the Nan Guan Park. They are waiting for me to get home and Liping is also waiting for me! I feel very safe here.Zai jian!
Peter
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