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In anticipation of tomorrow (see next entry), I had a quiet, admin day today. I did manage
to make it to the Ming City Walls park - a small mile or so long stretch of park that runs
alongside the remaining / reconstructed bits of the old city wall of Beijing. There was a
museum of sorts, with the history and pictures (all captions in Mandarin, but the pictures
were pretty) and I could go up onto the ramparts and get views over the city and the nearby
central railway station.
In the evening, I went out with my dormmates and with the guys I hung out with yesterday for
Peking Duck. *Real* Peking duck had been much vaunted in all the guidebooks, and although
it was delicious (and, interestingly, was carved into slices rather than shredded as I am
used to) I felt slightly let down. It was certainly not the promised culinary Mecca.
Talking to an American friend, I was shocked to hear she had never before eaten Peking duck,
so perhaps it's not exported to all faux-Chinese restaurants around the globe, which might
explain
why it's so famous and praised.
Still, it was a fun evening, and I went to be satisfied (and full).
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