I had one of the most wonderful holidays this June. Even as I'm blogging about it now, I'm already starting to miss it!

As the weather was bad and there was some flooding in Guangzhou, I was immediately whizzed off to the domestic flight departure gate the moment I landed at the airport. Much to my delight, my husband had already bought air tickets to Beijing! Yippie!!

It was another 3 hour flight to Beijing and by the time we arrived in the evening, we were totally famished. Seizing every minute we had, we quickly dropped our luggage at the hotel and walked out to the town centre.

Beijing is now an extremely developed and modernized city. Skyscrapers are seen everywhere and the streets are surprisingly clean. Macdonald's or KFC can be easily spotted. Shops carrying top notch brands like Rolex, Cartier watches, Gucci, etc lined the streets in the town centre. The young people there are also fashionably-dressed. You can no longer call them country bumpkins now. Many of them can even speak simple English!


Our first meal in Beijing – Gou Bu Li Bao Zi! Don’t be tricked by the name of the dish, there's no dog meat filling inside the buns. They were merely pork and vegetables fillings.


Next, we hit the food street. There was a wide variety of street food available, from fruit candy sticks to live baby scorpions and even grilled star fish! Can you imagine having a scorpion squirming in your mouth as you bite into it? Well, we can't!

As there's just too much to blog about my Beijing trip, I will be blogging about it in several blog posts. Stay tune! = )