Friday
I decided to postpone my trip to Tianjin because I heard Katie Beth was leaving town soon. We met at Wangfujing at lunchtime, Katie Beth, her dad, and me, in the map section of the Wangfujing bookstore. Lunch happened at the Dong’an Shichang shopping mall, in the same food court where I got my curry chicken. After lunch, we took the subway to Jianguomen for a look at the astronomical observatory. Katie Beth’s father had done navigation for the air force, so we talked a bit about the sextants and armillaries, and how they would have been operated.
Beihai park was our next destination. We were approached by a friendly sidewalk calligrapher who traced a message of Sino-American friendship for us on the ground. Hopefully our friendship will last longer than the water stains did. While Katie Beth’s dad chatted with the calligrapher, she and I climbed to the top of the hill, the base of Beihai’s lama temple.
We reached our next destination, Houhai, by a whirlwind tour of the the hutongs on rickshaw. Houhai was nice, it has been very developed, so that the waterfront is bounded by bars and restaurants. After a little dancing, we split up and headed back to our respective hotels. I stayed up a bit to watch a movie with Cindy and Isaac on his laptop, then fell asleep.
Man reading the bus stop list.
I like the idea behind Araz’s weblog. It’s a weblog written by other people, about Araz. I’ve considered starting an “interview weblog”, where I interview people. What better to interview people about than one’s own self?
Food
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Breakfast
I might as well stop including this one.
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Lunch (Dong’an Shichang food court, on the 5th floor)
octupus-arm fried “leaf” rice (it’s cooked in a lotus leaf first), and suan mei tang.
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Dinner (S’Silk restaurant on Lotus Lane, Houhai)
spicy beef in “special tea sauce, Kunming-style mushrooms, fruit tea.
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