Monday, April 12, 2010

WangFuJing (王府井)

I went to WangFuJing this past weekend with Collin.

WangFuJing is a really modern street in the center(ish) of Beijing. There are lots of malls and restaurants and stuff.

WangFuJing has lots of little side streets that go off of the main shopping street. The place where all the crazy food is is a branch of WangFuJing (if that makes sense).

So, here's the entrance to the little street of crazy food. Collin said that the set up was a tradional Qing dynasty style. So this is supposed to be pretty old school.

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Here are some of the delicacies. Here are some baby scorpions and starfish. I have a funny story about this picture. So, I went right up to the counter so I could get a good picture. I go ahead and take my picture and everything and as I'm right up close to the little baby scorpions and starfish, I notice that the scorpions were alive! They were writhing and wiggling on those little sticks! It jumped me a little bit because I just had assumed that they were dead. Then the guy asked me if I wanted some... and told me they were delicious. I didn't care to find out.

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Try to guess what this is.

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(It's octopus)

Here are some big black scorpions, some cockroaches, and some more baby scorpions.

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I dont know what this is, but it looked pretty interesting.

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Here are some random WangFuJing street shots.

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Here's a big Yao Ming. He's a superstar here. A lot of my IELTS students are really into him.

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I love milk. I thought this was cute.

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Like I said, WangFuJing is a big shopping place. The buildings are really big and pretty.

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