My short work week came and went. There wasn't much work to do, but I had a meeting with Guo Xiaohong, or Catherine as we call her, one of the project directors, about what kinds of stories I want to be writing. I told her that I love experiencing and writing about new foods, especially Chinese food from an American perspective. Some of the other topics we discussed sound REALLY cool, and she's trying to find a Chinese reporter to team up with me to go do some stories soon. I'm excited!
We met Tim again for dinner on Thursday and had Japanese food. In my opinion, it doesn't get much better than Japanese fried rice. Tim leaves Friday to go back to the States after spending a month on his own in China. Maybe I need to start planning a graduation trip…
Dinner was followed by coffee/milk tea at this cute bakery across from where we work. It had tables that were little Chinese boats "floating" in a pond with fish - so cool!
We finally went OUT on Friday night to watch USA play Slovenia (World Cup) at a Tex-Mex restaurant/bar called Tim's BBQ. USA tied AGAIN. I wasn't a fan of the bar too much (it was owned by an unfriendly white man who had many Chinese minions, it seemed), but there was a cool duo playing covers. Annie and I guessed that they were Pilipino. The drinks were good, but expensive compared to the prices we are used to seeing at restaurants and markets near our apartment.
We moved on to Sanlitun, an area of Beijing "where all the drunk people are," as a local described. The road we were dropped of near had bar after bar, all offering overpriced but negotiable beer. It all seemed pretty unoriginal, and Chinese were the minority here. If only USA could pull out a WIN, Sanlitun would be the place to be!
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