Okay so where were we... last time we updated this thing we were still in Beijing, we spent a few more days there after we missd our first train and went to the summer palace but mostly we just ate and drank =) One day we found a local open air food market with all sorts of goodies, everything deep fried and most things on a stick: scorpions, starfish, centipedes, silkworms, seahorses, and the list goes on and on... Needless to say we had to try almost everything. We had scoprpion (they were delicious by the way), seahorse (only Jon), centipede, grasshoppers, and deep fried octopus balls (not the kind your thinking of, but just balls of dough w/ octopus in the middle), it was fantastic. We even went back the next day with our new
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