Toast Beijing-style

Day #96: Eating in China

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July 18th 2013
Until I joined the tour, meals in China were not entirely successful. Most restaurants in Beijing have picture menus for tourists, but ordering the requisite selection of dishes just from photographs resulted in incongruous combinations (most notably when I ordered noodle soup and what I thought was some kind of bread as a side but turned out to be a cake-sized sugared doughnut). The variety of or ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more