Some of you may remember a massive fire that happened here in Beijing a while back.

This is the result… look out Towering Inferno!

This building is just, well, funky – in a gi-normous kinda way…

Food is real important to the Chinese. Here is the spread at last night’s dinner – graciously hosted by our interpreters and their friends. We were whisked in a brand new Land Rover to the south end of the city to one of the world’s finest Peking Duck establishments .

That reminds me of a funny thing our Great Wall guide told us the other day. In China, in order to marry a good woman from a good family, one must have two sets of keys – one to a house and one for a car.

Our hosts also treated us to a tour of a mansion in the heart of the city. Beautiful.

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Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

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Tags: beijing fire, China, food, travel diary

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