Saturday, November 14, 2009

Is there a board of health in Beijing

I promised to have caught up by now with all of the old videos from the summer and have not done so but now that we are back from China/Tibet/Hong Kong, I really want to get the newer stuff up and then work back from there.

China was, as always, wonderful and was, as always " a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside and enigma" (borrowed from Churchill.) The people are always fabulous, the food amazing and the sights extraordinary.

Our first morning in Bejing, I don't do "hotel breakfasts"  so we stumbled out of the hotel,  and found a tiny, unheated shop making bao and jao steamed dumpling. Fresh, handmade, I think they cost all of 60 cents for 10 dumplings. The title of this video is completely unfair, the place was clearly clean, the food both delicious and freshly made, we just have a different expectation of what the physical facility of a restaurant should be.

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