我的世界

Wangfujing is one of the must visit area in Beijing.. as there are many stores, restaurants and many kinds of food to try

However, things that caught most of my attention are so called street foods
some of them can be delicious.. yet some can be very disturbing

I don't know that guy and also I didn't ask him to pose in front of the bingtanghuru.. I think he's the cashier

mmmm sweet corns~
fried chestnuts

I don't know its name but seemed nice

and the highlight of Wangfujing is:


scorpion/seahorse kebob

I know there are scorpion kebob.. but what the?! seahorse???
those seahorses are too cute to be eaten :( ewwww

I seen many foreign tourists are taking photo with those scorpion kebob, so I decided to give it a try


scorpions being closed up

and here it comes!
me eating a scorpion!!!!!

well it didn't taste that bad...
I thought I would throw up right after my first bite... but I ended up eating two scorpions.. couldn't finish all of them

now I can't say eating dog was the most disgusting food I ever tried
eating scorpion beats everything!!!!

I took a trip to Beijing during this weekend..
I thought 2 nights and 3 days would be enough since I will be taking a plane back to Yanji on Sunday night.. even though Beijing trip was good ,time wasn't enough to tour Beijing completely :(


I wasn't able to visit some of must-see places such as The Great Wall, Yi Hwa Yuan or inside of the Forbidden City :(

I will save them for end June/early July when I finish my term in Yanji and go to Beijing to take a plane to Seoul and then to Toronto :)

Initially, I wasn't thinking about staying in Beijing in end June/July when I go back to Toronto.. but since I missed out a lot in Beijing this weekend, I will definitely be in Beijing for few days before I go to Toronto to finish up my unfinished business in Beijing :)


The first thing that greeted me at the Beijing Airport when I disembarked from the plane was...

"Coffee Time!" (yay~)

When did Coffee Time started its expansion to China..?
Wait... was Coffee Time owned by Chinese?

Anyways.. seeing Coffee Time in Beijing was one of the most surprised store to see in Beijing.. lol


Doesn't the logo and its interior seems similar to the one in Toronto?

When I first saw this store... I was like... "wait? this can't be here?"

I wonder how much a cup of coffee cost there.. hopefully it's less than 10RMB
If a cup of coffee in Beiing Coffee Time costs similar to the Starbucks, then.. it would be sad :(

Inside of Beijing International Airport Terminal 1

the roof reminds me of UFO :p

Definitely the waiting area for Terminal 1 looked more like an airport than Terminal 2 domestic area, which looked no better than bus terminal :(

more pics from Beijing are coming up soon~

hmm

i know jaywalking is pretty common in canada but in (mainland) china, ppl do it w/o feeling any guilt about this

i even find myself doing a jaywalk w/o feeling bad about doing this lol

i found one interesting crosswalk in downtown yanji

ususally those crosswalks have crossing lights on both sides, but surprisingly this one doesn't have it.. wow

view of this crosswalk from the other side
they don't even have crossing light on the other side as well

this is pretty wide road.. 
in toronto, it's like Yonge Street or highway 7

i know (many) people in (mainland) china don't care about crossing lights and they cross it whenever they want but crossword like this..

this one doesn't seem right :(

please go through this crosswalk at your own risk

Yesterday, I went to a supermarket called "Kalma“to buy some stuff (it's like T&T or Galleria Supermaket in Toronto)
When I walked up to the second floor where they sell bunch of ramens,

天哪！（oh my god!)  I never knew this really exists!
The label says: 延边狗肉面 （traditional: 延邊狗肉面）
Yanbian is name of the district(?) where I am at (It's part of Jilin province)

Since this is Chinese product, it's VERY cheap compare to other Korean imported ramens..

It's just 1.2RMB ... For price of one Korean Ranem, I think it's possible to buy 4-5 of those.. lol What a price difference!

I bought 2 of them to try and I hadn't tried them yet :(
I will let you guys know whether I am alive after eating it

it's been a week since Chinese (Korean) new year

I hope you guys had a 春節快樂！
前天 我回延吉，但是， 四個月以後， 我回加拿大

I found some of 春节stuff pics in my hard disk that I want to share with:

This is from my Air China domestic flight from 北京（beijing) to 深圳（shenzhen) on the way to 香港

I took this flight day after solar calendar new year (which is January 2nd) and
they gave all of us on board some treats b/c of new year's day!


guess what's inside of the red pocket with the word 福

I was expecting some special souvenirs or money(lol)
but as you might notice, it was a kit kat chocolate bar haha

(Sorry for not taking a picture of chocolate bar inside of the pocket.. I ate them all before I realized that I should've took picture of it :( )

It wasn't fancy or expensive stuff but just a Kit Kat chocolate bar
but being covered with the red pocket,  this one feels much different
than ordinary Kit Kat chocolate bar lol

the thing that looks like a card in the middle..
I thought it was a free phone card or something like that .. but it was just a calendar for 2008

Even though those things are small but it was definitely a nice surprise.
Surely those things made my journey to HK made more memorable~

Yesterday, I went to Apgujeong-Dong to meet my friend there..

I didn't expect to meet her but she called me at the last minute whether i am available and yeah..

So I went there..

FYI,

Apgujeong-Dong is one of the rich area in Seoul, where there are so many fancy restaurants and stores (and also pricey)
I think half of foreign imported cars in Seoul are in this area..
I saw every model from each brand.. Audi A4, A6, A8 and S4, S8... Lexus IS/ES, Infinity G35, Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, VW ...
Given that those cars in Korea are about 1.5-2 or more times expensive than Canada (Mercedes E Class are about 150K$ in Korea.. whereas in Toronto it's just about 80K), presence of massive foreign cars made me amused.. @_@

This place was like Yorkville in Toronto.. ;)

You probably seen this place from K-dramas as well

I was expecting to see some of celebrities.. but not a chance :p


This is 'Galleria Department Store' in Apgujeong
Galleria Store in Korea and this one are not related at all.. lol

This is like... Korean version of Holt Renfrew @_@

One interesting thing..
There are SOOOOO MANY plastic surgery hospital in this area.. not even funny
As Starbucks are in every corner of street in Toronto, there are plastic surgery hospital in every corner of street there.. Some buildings just occupied with plastic surgery hospital.. wtf

No wonder all those girls there looked alike..
When I look at those girls in Seoul.. They don't look TOO natural..
They look more artifical than natural....
Some girls would look kinda natural.. but when I look at some girls..
I was like.. "wtf they even screwed up their face even more by doing surgery :(!"

Now if guys are looking for a natural girl (who had ZERO surgeries) then they'll think those guys are crazy ... :(


We went to rotating sushi restaurant.. and gosh.. that place was somewhat pricey..
I had like 10 plates.. and it was like 60$ -_-;;

If I didn't set my limit.. then my bill could go WAY over to like few hundred dollars
I don't really think that I am not for rotating sushi thingy.. I am more like all u can eat style lol

Then we headed for coffee
OMG.. this was one of the best coffee shop I ever been
The interior was soooooooooo nice :D

This coffee shop, named "Homestead Coffee" made Starbucks look like Coffee Time lol
However, the price was not too bad for fancy coffee shop

waffle... anyone?

Nice eh?