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Beijing Immersion Trip 2007

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Tour Guide & Food

Tour guide
Upon our arrival at the airport, we were received by a young lady, Zhu Dan aka Dan Dan as our tour guide. She might look shy and sweet but when you get to know her, she is a really very friendly and fun person. We also get to meet the other tour guide, Apple, whom was guiding the group of teachers arriving two days. In the coming days, we built strong friendship and ties with them, they were not just our tour guides, but also like close friends. Through the friendship, we learnt many more things from them about their country. When we were going to shop, they thought us some tips on haggling; they even helped some of us to bargain over the prices to get the most out of our money. During our last night in Beijing, Apple and Dan Dan stayed with us and chatted with us the whole night looking through the time we spent together and the great memories we had. When it was for us to bid farewell at the airport, both Apple and Dan Dan burst into tears with us as we could not bear to say good bye. We exchanged our email address with them and are still in contact now. And next year, Apple is coming to Singapore and all of us are very excited about it. We hope that we can be the tour guide for her this time round.


Breakfast
Breakfast at the hotel was buffet style. There are cold dishes like the vegetable or fruit salads, ham, traditional Beijing dishes like peanuts with cucumber, etc. there will be hot dishes like the fried rice or fried noodles with a few dishes of vegetables like the stir- fried cabbage, shanghai green , xiao bai cai, tomato, carrots etc, very healthy. There is also steamed meat buns and man tou. On some lucky days, we get to eat eggs too, like scramble eggs, fried eggs or hard boil eggs, which somehow turned out to be our favourite food there. Occasionally, there is plain porridge cooked using rice or small wheat with condiments. Sometimes there are also soups, dan hua tang, where they add eggs and thinly sliced vegetables. To satisfy some customers for some western breakfast, there is toast with butter, custard buns and drinks like tea, coffee and warm milk which some locals drink it from a bowl.


Peking duck


On the fourth day, we had our mind on the Peking duck. When we arrived at the restaurant, we were all famished and could not wait for the food to be served. Before the Peking duck was served, some of us already finished the cucumber used as a condiment for the dish. The duck is sliced thinly in front of the diner before served. A thin round pancake is used to wrap the succulent meat with crispy skin, spring onions, cucumber and hoison sauce together. It was a dish with great culture and history, as it was first prepared for the Emperor of China in the Yuan Dynasty. We are eating what the Emperor was eating centuries back. After we finished, everyone was craving for more Peking duck. To my surprise, we found that Peking duck has become a local product where you can buy it a packet. The whole duck is vacuumed in the packet and after warming it up in the microwave, it can be served. Pricing is also reasonable, ranging from 30-50 yuan. This has brought business to another level where the convenience and hygiene allow foreigners to bring back some real delicacies home.

Steam boat

We indulged ourselves in a large mutton steam boat. To accompany the meat, the sauce is made according to own preference. There is about 5-6 like of sauce for you to mix and match, it is really fun where you become the little chef. Besides the large proportion of the mutton, there is also beef, fish and many other types of vegetables. However, some find that the meat does not suit their taste and this is where the sauce comes in. Adding on the course is the ‘Ja Jiang Mian’; it is noodles like Japanese Udon topped with meat sauce. It is very much like the Spaghetti. The restaurant is rather unique as our rooms are llocated in the basement, much like a chamber where food is brought down from upstairs. Besides the steamboat, the restaurant also serves other Chinese traditional food.

  1. Anonymous Anonymous | January 14, 2008 at 7:31 PM |  

    Yaa!! the Peking duck looks so tasty ;p

    Im hungry now D=

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