The rest of September

Overlooking the Forbbiden City from Jinshan Park


Sunset in Jinshan park. To the south is the Forbidden City, and South of that is Tiananmen Square. It was pretty pretty. Right after this I went and bought a Chengyu dictionary in Xidan one of the largest shopping areas in Beijng. A Chengyu is usually a four word idiom and has a related story that gives it meaning. For example one is literally "paint snake add feet" and the meaning, which can be guessed(sort of), is doing something that is completely unneccesary.



Yeah for old temples and older stuff next to temples!


Yeah so this is out of order, but a decent shot of what we ate for Mid-Autumn Day Festival (sometimes called the Moon Festival, though a lot of Chinese holidays are based on the lunar calendar. So.. how can one be more moon festive than another I don't know)



Chingrish. Awesome! This is a trashcan sign btw. The Chinese says unable to recycle.


Buddist Temple, this was the only picture I took of a building, the rest are like really old trees. The tree pictures are just dizzying otherwise I would post them.


Yeah for Mid-Autumn Day Festival. This is a picture of all the guests at Wang Hao's for dinner.


Okay the smelly tofu in Beijing isn't that smelly. It really doesn't taste bad at all, but the smell is just too much for me to handle.


I should mention that everything is fried, steamed, or boiled. The vast majority of food is fried. Chinese people don't eat much sweet stuff. I can't find any really good desserts unless they are candy bars from abroad. The bakeries here, are nothing compared to the West. But the red bean stuff is good crutch for my sweet tooth. That and ice cream helps.
So greens are the new milk. Especially because of the problems Chinese milk had this year.


YAY! tofu its everywhere.


I was a little slow and half the meat and those white ball things are already gone.


Typical Subway traffic ~3pm on a Tuesday I think. Late at night its not so bad.


At Tiananmen Square.