Final Days in Beijing

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. -Herbert Spencer

Here are some things we squeezed into our final days in Beijing (in no particular order):

1. BBQ fish
2. Ladies Night at Vics
3. FUBAR- a bar you get to through a secret door in a hot dog stand (secret door was broken)
4. lunch for 6 people (dumplings and baozi) for a grand total of $9
5. public bus ride
6. purchase of CDs of Chinese rock ‘n roll musicians
7. Peking/ Beijing duck at DaDong
8. Sichuan food with my classmates
9. one last trip to the Silk Market
10. one last jian bing (delicious egg pancake street food that’s probably really bad for you)

I will also miss that insane-looking cat on my dishwashing soap.

Doing It Our Way

He was a wise man who invented beer. -Plato

I couldn’t find the Laverne and Shirley theme song for my brewery tour video, so I went in a totally different direction (Minneapolis hip-hop, WARNING: some explicit lyrics).  The Tsingtao Brewery in Qingdao, China, was started by the Germans, run for a while by the Japanese, and now is a state-owned enterprise.  While in the town we had access to beers I’ve never seen in Beijing, including a green beer that was apparently fermented with seaweed.  All over town the beer was served in tiny glasses, so even though we started drinking every day around noon, we never really got past tipsy.

Tsingtao Brewery Tour from Adrienne Peirce on Vimeo.