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Welcome to our hood! - a bike trip around the block

11/4/2016

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We live by the south-western corner of Chaoyang park. Apparently the biggest park in Asia! I'd like to show you around our neighbourhood.
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Women qu ba - let's go :-)

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At the end of our street is the building which I call "the doughnut". Apparently it houses the Hong Kong TV channel "Phoenix"
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Turn right in this street and you'll go straight to Sanlitun. A lovely, lively area which also offers western style shopping and eating
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But I go down to the Tuanjiehu area. I like this area because you find everything here! Shops, services, snack places and a big market.
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Where you can buy a lot of rubbish - but also useful things
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The vegetable market
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The seafood market (and fresh turtles market)...
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...and the pet market. These kittens have been there for a couple of weeks now. On Saturday we went to see them and told the owner of the shop that they had no food nor water. The same thing happened today! I could just about tell her in Chinese that they needed food and water. She replied but I didn't understand what she said. It makes me so mad to see how animals are often treated here!
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Trying to forget about those kittens I got my favourite snack! Sold all over the city. It's a huge pancake with spring onion, sauce and some crunchy stuff (still haven't figured out what it is).
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Men playing cards. A very common activity in Beijing. And they were happy to pose :-)
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And here it is! Chaoyang park! Where you can sail, swim, take rollercoaster rides, climb trees, eat and even shop!
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At the North west corner of Chaoyang park, you'll find the Solana shopping mall. A very nice indoor-outdoor mall which also has cafés and restaurants that face one if the lakes in Chaoyang park.

Altogether, our neighbourhood offers a bit of everything: from authentic Chinese streets and markets to western shops and restaurants. Come see us! 😉
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alessia
12/4/2016 17:56:45

Hey Lise, I like your blog!!! You are very brave in eating those street pancakes!!! I've never tried them!!!! blahhhhh!!!! ;-)))

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