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| Coffee with baileys! |
We landed around 2.30pm local time (no time difference with Singapore).
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| Check out the lovely couple coming up! |
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| Satisfied with the flight and wanted to take pic with the airplane! |
Upon passing the immigration and had our passport stamp, we had to take a sky train from Terminal 3E where to landed to Terminal 3C to collect our luggage. I am puzzled the rationale behind this and the manpower required to transfer our luggage from one area to another, and making the passenger travel as well just for luggage collection….
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| Traffic jam! |
Checked in at Novotel Peace Beijing and room is pretty clean. Most amenities are provided and bed is ok. The room sizes differ though we booked for the same type of room.
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| Study table |
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| Shower |
We rest a bit and unpack some stuff from luggage. About 6pm, we went for lunch at Quan Ju De Peking Duck.. one of the MUST eat when one comes to Beijing. It is just about 10 mins walk from our hotel which is very centrally located. Quan Ju De Peking Duck Restaurant in Beijing had a very long history and the quality of the shop is similar across their branches. We had ours at their first and oldest restaurant at Wang Fu Jing. Food definitely did not disappoint us though some dishes are executed slightly better than the rest.
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| Pickled cucumber |
Peking Duck served exquisitely on pretty plate in the shaped of a Peony Jade flower. You can eat it on its own, dip in a sweet sauce or wrap them together with cucumber, spring onion etc before savouring it! The skin is indeed crispy with a tinge of fats in it which burst when you bite them….yummy!
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| Signature Peony Jade Peking Roast Duck |
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| Condiments to eat with Peking Duck! |
Stir fry asparagus is good as well ð
I was slightly disappointed with this dish as it is quite oily and the sea cucumber is tasteless!
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| Sea cucumber with pork |
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| Satisfied after a great meal! |
We were given their member card as well and for every CNY 100 spend, one can get 10 points. Our bill came up to slightly over CNY 1000,so we gotten 100 points where we could redeem the points with some of their biscuits.
We are indeed very full after a sumptuous meal and we walked around the back alley to visit the local street hawker… One can see many exotic food being sold including fried scorpion, sea horse, cow’s stomach etc… I can’t imagine anyone craving for these food, tourist who are brave enough will probable try once for the experience but I think I will just give it a pass!
