Day 25 – Southern Chinese food, Giant Desk
I always expected that the food I would get in Beijing would be the Chinese food that I’ve been eating my whole life at home, but I was completely wrong.
The food in Northern China (includes Beijing): OILY AND SPICY
The food in Southern China: Exactly the same dishes you find in Toronto (ex. Dim Sum)
Summary: The food sucks here. NO DIM SUM.
Though Noah and I were able to find a Southern Chinese food restaurant, tasted like home.
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The desk in my room is pretty awesome – about 4 feet wide and 2 feet long, with a whole lot of shelves. But that’s pretty much the only thing in my room.
Ghetto pill counter
Chinese oreos taste the same.
Tissue box mounted to wall.
Ipod shelf.
New mattress
Bought two cause they were so damn thin.
Fixed gears are really popular among the Koreans on campus. There’s one store in Beijing that’ll customize a whole bike for you (in any colours you want) for $400 CAD. Considered it, but decided it wasn’t worth it.
But if you take a closer look at the photo… you can see the lock on the bike is like one of those dollar store locks you buy in Canada. If we were in Toronto, that bike would be stolen and put on Craiglist faster than I cay say “Woodfield”. But in Beijing, stealing bikes isn’t so common.
Piece of home.
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dam brave locking up a fixie with a cable lock in t.o that would get jacked in a second.
Comment by andrew.trinh — November 20, 2011 @ 9:26 PM
did I not give you some Vitamin D supplements? you need 1000mg a day. You need the vitamin D. I switched your calcium supplement because of the added magnesium but it now doesn’t include the vitamin D.
Comment by dianayee — November 20, 2011 @ 10:23 PM
ye ye ye my “N” you already know how it is.
Comment by Karl Wang — November 20, 2011 @ 11:31 PM
The Northern Chinese diet is different, not worse than Southern. Mantou, noodles, jianbing and jiaozi are all traditional staples of Northern China, readily available in Beijing, and neither oily or spicy. The traditional Northern diet is also extremely low in oil, meat and fat, so much so that after a while your body will crave oil. Hence the need for foods such as youtiao. Red pepper spicy hot comes from Hebei, a mid-chinese province, not really Northern. I would describe Northern Chinese food as more bland and low in oil.
China, at over 1.3B people, will have a huge variation in diet, all yours to explore and discover. Southern Chinese and HK food are insignificant when compared to what the rest of China offers.
Comment by Don Tai — November 21, 2011 @ 12:53 PM
Ryan, you show photos of bikes. Do you have your own bike, yet?
Comment by David Ing — November 25, 2011 @ 11:55 AM
lol koreans and their fixies, they were spending the same on scooters last time i was there. yeah the mattresses suck. man i told you guys so many times the food in beijing will give you diseases but its hard to understand until you eat like every beijing dish for yourself. go to dongchu shitang and eat the basic rice, boiled vegetables and meat and you’ll be healthy a lot longer and not get fat like i did. you want the unprocessed raw vegetables in their natural state
Comment by Eric — November 29, 2011 @ 2:43 AM