We (Arjen, Bin, Arjen’s father, Adrienne and me) are having a nice and busy time here in Beijing. We arrived on Sunday the 14th and walked around the city. We had lunch in a place that served “BT Chicken Wings” that were said to be notoriously spicey. After taking a couple of bites Arjen said “these are not so spicey at all”. 10 seconds later tears were running down his sweaty face. I guess when the Chinese say that something is very spicey, it is extremely spice and probably needs to be handled as a chemical weapon.

A day later we went had breakfast in a small “restaurant” in one of the Hutongs (old streets of the city), it was quite good food and the price was 13 RMB, which is 1.30euro’s for the five of us! Afterwards we went to the Forbidden City. A nice and huge site, but also very touristy and crowded.

Check out the barbeque’d scorpions and seahorses. We haven’t tried them yet…