spring is a sort of mixed blessing in beijing. one is relieved from winter's awful cold with warm, windy days; but the air becomes drier and the sky thick with sand and fog. on the ground however, trees grow the year's first leaves and there are hundreds of these peach blossoms in every yellow, pink, white, and fuschia you can imagine. it's a pretty magical sight and these trees are all over place.
I finally ate peking duck. it's about time! it's beijing's signature dish and i somehow managed to be here 8 months without trying it. they roast and make a several course meal out of an entire duck. you eat the innards (guts, tounge, pickled eggs), roasted skin and meat, and ultimately a soup, mostly from the same duck. a chef comes to your table and expertly cuts the duck for you. it's quite a show.
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peking duck, huh? i thought that would be peking's signature dish and not beijing's...HA! who would have thunk it...? ha...
that passport picture is HOT; weirdly flat and obituary-like...who knows...? the redness of the chocolate cake is delicious, i almost thought of the cake as a velvet cake...weird colorrific stuff!
kisses!
Peking duck! yammmy! I love the dish!
I found some place serve it with thin crape looking thing and some serve it with more bum? like thick one.
Cherry blossom and peach blossom. I haven't seen it for 8 years. I miss the spring. picnic under the tree.
The cherry and peach blossoms are great. Even if the sky is totally grey, they're super pretty. They are both nearly gone already. Cherry blossoms are so Japan referential for me that every time I see them I think "how Japanese!"
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