Dumplings!

Location: Snazzy Chinese Restaurant; Foodage: Bao zi!! 包子 - I love Chinese architecture, it's just that little bit crazy. For example, a building I drove past today: 12 stories, the 8 in the middle were flexed inwards concave-wise as if Godzilla himself had just brushed past. The restaurant with the holy Baozi was also pretty special, think steel girders with glass panels clamped on -> basically it. With lots of pretty lights. Speciality： Beijing Kaoya 北京烤鸭 (Roast Duck), tres nice, completely different from Western/Chinese duck because the meat was sliced (not shredded) and still fatty (not dry) *nomnom*

The mochi gift appears to have not killed me as well, today is a good day ^^

My contact in Beijing 北京 (Peter) is British and seems to spend most of his time speaking very loudly and slowly to ditzy staff *waves flag* He showed me the “bar" where he took his wife on their first date - the funkiness out-weighed the marital cutsie It's called Green T. House, lots of bamboo and even some traditional Chinese beds used for tea-drinking hide-aways (though my first impression was whore-house, turns out this is not the case ^^).

A miniature project for the last day and a bit has been trying to figure out their marital-ness, purely because he refers to his daughter as his wife's daughter. Yesterday I figured the daughter (Tia) is 10 years old, his wife (Rosa) is a lawyer and has spent 4 years completely law training, then further 3 years doing a law masters Tres clever~ Today I discovered they've been married only 2 years and Tia's currently staying with her real dad -> either I'm getting better at screwing people for info or alcohol is a serious social luibricant. I have a feeling it's the latter.