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Beijing 16th to 21st May 2015 (Day 3)

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Day 3
Today finally we could wake up slightly later unlike the last 2 days where we had to wake up earlier to catch our flight and tour. It gets bright really fast in Beijing at 4.30am. I did wake up at about 5am seeing the sky is so bright but went back to sleep as it is still early. We manage to get ready and out of the hotel at 8 plus today.
Initial plan is to visit the National Palace but it is closed on Monday. Thus, we decided to visit Prince Gong’s Mansion instead. To our dismay, it is closed on Monday too! Oh no….. since we are already at the Hou Hai area, we stroll along the lake which has great scenery. Roses here in Beijing are huge!
Pretty roses

For lunch, we had Shabu Shabu at “Nan Men Shua Rou”, recommended by our tour guide. It was good, FIL and hubby loves the sesame sauce. I was quite ok with the sauce, but I can’t have too much of it as the sauce is quite thick.

Lunch time!
Mini hotpot
Cheers!
Ceiling decoration
Some veggies we ordered
Sesame sauce
Mixed platter of beef and mutton slices
Handmade noodle
Bell and Gong Tower

After a filling lunch,we took a cab to Summer Palace and it took about 30 mins. We reached at 2pm and we got our entrance ticket at the entrance. Cost CNY30.

Painting on the wall.. look at the deterioration… indeed is an original hand painted art
This one of crane
Window
Window with view of the lake
At Summer Palace

We spend about 2.5 hours at Summer Palace but definitely not enough. There are quite a few other areas that we did not have time to explore e.g.: the marble boat, the temple where the empress dowager pray etc…One can really spend almost a whole day here if wanted to but time is not on our side. We left for Qianmen for some shopping by cab as well.

Nei Lian Sheng is a famous traditional cloth shoes which tailor made the emperor and royalty shoes in the past. Now they still have 100% handmade cloth shoes and some factory made shoes. If you do want to purchase a pair, do bring enough cash as they do not accept overseas credit card. Also, do enquire with the staff as not all the shoes in the shop is 100% handmade. Prices are around CNY 300 and above!
Shoes are light and comfortable as they are made from cloth but the soles are a little slippery if you walked on marbled surface. You could add an additional rubber soles if you wanted to at additional cost.

Handmade shoes from NeiLianSheng

Qian Men streets are also famous for cheong sam and there are plenty of choices at pretty reasonable prices. There are some tea leaves shop and we got ourselves some Jasmine Tea Leaves as well. Also doesn’t accept overseas credit card, our cash suddenly got depleted quite a bit. 

For dinner, we patronise the Bian Yi Fang at Qian Men and it was good. Though the duck fare a little shy from Quan Ju De, the other dishes are actually much better than the one we had at Quan Ju De. Prices are much more reasonable as well.

Chinese styled bacon , eat by wrapping with popiah skin and vegetable
We had some other dishes as well … stir fry snail meat with celery (this is good), peking duck ( not bad), vinegar jelly fish (cold dishes, not bad), cucumber, and stir fry vegetable with mushroom.
After dinner, reached home at 9 plus again. Showered and rest!

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