Beijing 2

So. lets see. so the week of 6/23 i was at my lao jiuma (mom's youngest brother's wife, my uncle's rarely home so i think of it as her house)'s house in pinggu district (part of beijing municipality, but an hour outside of beijing city), and she took me and her daughter to eat various things. monday was yangxiezi, lamb spine. they give you a big pot of broth with, you got it, lamb spine. you eat all the meat, and then you use the remaining broth for hotpot. ugh it was so salty and i was full and we had plates of extra hotpot materials =/. tuesday. hanguk yori, korean food. soooo good, my fav was the beef and the lamb. not a big fan of pork...or barbecued veggies....wednesday was food at home, which i didn't rly like that much ;P. thursday we went to a chuanba, a "kabob bar." all kinds of kabobs, including cuigu (cartilage). ugh i dont see what there is to eat abt cartilage. it tastes like normal meat, but its harder to chew. on our way home, it was abt to rain and ppl were still selling their vegetables on the streets. a woman had like 3 huge stalks of scallions left, and she said to my jiuma "2 yuan and i'll give you all of it!!" and my jiuma said "no, we only need one." i felt pretty bad for the lady, she probably only makes like 20 bucks a day....meanwhile i spend 20 bucks in like half an hour...

On friday, Song Boyu (lao jiuma's daughter) and I took the bus back to Beijing city to live with my da jiuma (the wife of the older of my mom's two younger brothers) for a day or two. she's really really young...maybe 30? and she's at least 10 years younger than my uncle (da jiu). she also lives near the bird's nest and her son Song Qizheng is 10 years old (but looks like he's 7 or 8 haha). The next day she took us to eat lunch at golden hans, its a buffet, but there's also barbecue, which the waiters take around to each table to carve meat off of. then we went to tiananmen to take some pics, and at night went to the birds nest to take pics. on sunday we went back to pinggu, and Boyu and I joined my da jiu for a "business lunch." it was hotpot, and it was really really good...but since it was a business lunch, there was a lot of beer and cigarettes...my uncle forced two 600ml yanjings on me xD...the business partners got pretty drunk. my other uncle (my dad's sister's husband, who works with my mom's brother) was also there. at night i went back to beijing city again and lived with Mao Panyong (parents friend's house)

on monday i went to go see robin, went to wangfujing in the morning, and then went to go eat peking duck with his grandparents for lunch. at night mao panyong took us to the train station for our journey to NANJING