We arrived in Beijing too late for the Chinese New Year (or Lunar New Year) on February 14, which is the start of the Spring Festival. It is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. The origin of the Lunar New Year can be traced back thousands of years involving a series of colourful [...]
A new bakery has recently opened a fifteen minute walk from our place or five minutes by bike. It is located next to the entrance of the new Merry Mart grocery store. They even have a website and the address is www.bjxqs.com.cn. Our friend Mike introduced us to the owner Barry who gave us free [...]
North American style fast food is infusing itself into the Chinese culture. The first and most popular was K.F.C. followed by McDonald’s and Dairy Queen. A meal deal at KFC costs about 25 RMB or $4.00 Canadian. Yesterday at Dairy Queen we paid 41 RMB for two large blizzards, about $7.00 Canadian. By Chinese standards [...]
Hi everyone! We arrived back in Beijing last night at 7:00 p.m. local time. We went to friends for fresh dumplings and stayed there until about 10:00. Then we went to our apartment and yes, the key still fit which was a relief. We opened our luggage and did a bit of putting away and [...]
