Sun Aug 17 – Peking duck

Later – we decided to take a taxi Ride to what is known as the “Silk Street” which is a market where all the best deals and shopping is. We weren’t going to buy anything as we had designated Monday morning as our shopping time, but given that we only had one morning for shopping, we wanted to make sure we knew where it was and how to get there, since we had been told that the deals and prices were amazing and we wanted to plan and plot our strategy. We had a pretty funny experience which I will relate in the description of shopping on Monday. But after looking around 6-7 floors of open market shopping, we did see a restaurant labeled “Western food” which also offered “Peking duck”. Since we’ve been here, all of the tourist guides have said that we have to try “Peking duck” in Beijing, because no one does it like Bejing which is the original source of the recipe. So we stopped to try it….And now we can say that we’ve tried it. Maybe we didn’t have the fancy version, but it was alright and at least we can say we’ve tried it. It was kind of like a spring roll dish where they bring different plates of roast duck slices, sliced sticks of cucumber, a type of onion, and a thick sauce tasting like a combination of plum and soy sauce. You take the duck, cucumber, onion, dip it in the sauce, put it in a thin tortilla and eat it. It was fine. Then we headed back to the hotel, and for the first time watched the Olympics on the TV