A quiet day at Bei Da

Yesterday we saw Stephen off to shanghai. Since Lauren wasn't feeling well, we stayed on campus. As usual, we had a late breakfast. I carefully checked the hours of the hotel restaurant. The sign said it served lunch until 2 so I figured lunch at 1 would be a safe bet. Foiled again! At 1 the waitresses explained the due to the new year holiday (??), the cooks had left early.

Now I was really pissed. I went to the hotel front desk and asked where I was supposed to eat lunch. The clerk explained that within 2 minutes walk of the hotel were 3 other restaurants! Since all are in nondescript buildings with no obvious signs outside, we had never noticed.

We had snow pea greens which were great, ma puo tofu which was too sweet and tasted ketchupy, and a lamb stew with vegetables, which I missed but Lauren said was good.

I had to rush off to meet zong chuanming. More about this day later.

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