DID: Jason did a market tour/cooking class in the morning. Learned how to make kung pao chicken and drunken duck – hopefully he’ll remember the techniques (and can find the ingredients!) once we get home. The rest of us stayed back at the hotel and did some homework. Finding it very hard to help Gavin stay on track with the school work – his teachers have given him so much to do but finding the time to squeeze it in is difficult.
Went back to the Pearl Market to pick up a few things we missed on the last trip. I had much more fun this time now that I understood how to play their negotiating games. Big purchase was a couple of new suitcases, now we just need to figure out how to mail them back to Australia.
Planned to go to the Olympic Park in the evening but I was too exhausted. Am really craving a night in but ironically it seems Chinese restaurants don’t do take-aways. ☹
ATE: Breakfast – pastries that we picked up from a bakery near the Drum Tower. Note to Luxe – this is a true contender for best bakery. Forget about the Comptoir!! I might be biased though because my pastry of choice was a peanut butter one – first taste of peanut butter since we left home. ☺ We saw the baker in the back mixing in Skippy brand peanut butter - can't go wrong with that as a key ingredient!
Lunch: buns/cakes from a café near the new hotel. Also another candidate for quality bakery in Beijing.
Dinner: Pork sarnies, kung pao chicken, chinese greens, and a noodle soup from a Shaanxi style restaurant (Qin Tang Fu). Noodles were fresh, shaped like lasagna, and without a doubt the longest noodles ever. Trying to pick them up/cut them with just chopsticks was an exercise in futility!
A mom's account of a two-month holiday around Asia with a foodie husband and two under-5's. Written so that later when you ask me for Asia travel advice, I can point you here. Also keeping the grandparents happy with photos and stories on the little ones.
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