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Big Walls & Fried Scorpions

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Big Walls & Fried Scorpions · 2Y ago

Things on Sticks

If there is one thing that China has mastered, it is the art of food on sticks. You can find almost anything on a stick in Beijing. On any given roadside you are likely to see skewered meats af all kinds being grilled, fried, or marinated. The first “stick food” we tried was the kebab, [...]

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Big Walls & Fried Scorpions · 2Y ago

Things That Are Different in China: Grocery Stores

Compared to Stop & Shop or the Big Y, Carrefour, the closest large scale grocery store near us, might as well be from a different planet. First of all, it is located at the heart of a pretty good sized shopping center. The basement houses B&Q, a large, Home Depot-esque home improvement store. The gr

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Big Walls & Fried Scorpions · 2Y ago

Dumpling Class at The Hutong

The Hutong is a very cool little Arts Center that focuses on culture, art, wellness, and much to my delight, cooking! Located in a converted hutong courtyard home, it is the perfect setting to learn about lovely Chinese things like dumplings, noodles, watercolor painting, or even Kung Fu. I have m

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Big Walls & Fried Scorpions · 2Y ago

Baozi

beijing, originally uploaded by kyselak. 包子 bāozi steamed stuffed bun Baozi are a staple part of my diet, here in Beijing. These little buns are stuffed with a mixture of minced pork, seasonings, and scallions then steamed in little bamboo containers in towering stacks over pots of boiling water.

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Big Walls & Fried Scorpions · 2Y ago

Gig Number One

The guys had their first show all together in Beijing over the weekend. On Saturday night, they played at Yu Gong Yi Shan, one of the top indie venues in the city, and everything went just about as well as it could. The guys put on a great show, with the help of the very [...]

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Big Walls & Fried Scorpions · 2Y ago

Our Favorite Kebab Place

Our Favorite Kebab Place, originally uploaded by MHorama. One of our favorite places to chow down, especially after a night of beer drinking, “The Kebab Place” as we call it, is definitely not your everyday American eatery. Tiny stools and itty bitty foldable tables speckle the cement sidewalk outsi

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Big Walls & Fried Scorpions · 2Y ago

Cold!

Though we were assured by various internet sources, and by several Beijingers that snow was extremely uncommon here, we awoke on Sunday morning to a sky full of fluffy white flakes. When I first looked out the window, it appeared to be nothing more than a light dusting. Small potatoes for a New Engl

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Big Walls & Fried Scorpions · 2Y ago

Things That Are Different in China: Beer, Coffee, and Smokes, the Three Staples of Rock n Roll Living

Beer is certainly different in China. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was drastically different, but it certainly is not the same. For instance, local beers such as Yan Jing or Tsing Tao come in gigantic bottles, and cost between 1.5 and 10 RMB, in USD that roughly works out to between [...]

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Big Walls & Fried Scorpions · 2Y ago

Our Prolonged Silence

I know I’ve been inexcusably silent when it comes to this blog. I’ve downright neglected it after talking real big turkey about keeping it up while I was away. The truth is, the Bobleo and I have been sort of held up in our apartment as if the world had filled with zombies for the [...]

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Big Walls & Fried Scorpions · 2Y ago

Window Seat

I’m experiencing my first bits of culture shock on the flight. The two ladies I’ve been interacting with are both very nice, warm, and seem to also be effortlessly funny. The first, was seated next to me while I was in the middle row. She was a woman somewhere around my age who was returning [...]

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