Amanda (and Family) Visits Colonial Williamsburg

Amanda Visits

All Too Familiar

Our last dinner we went to one of our favorite restaurants. Again, maybe not the best restaurant in Beijing, but very comforting dishes and flavors. The restaurant is appropriately named: it translates to something like "all too familiar".

We had Taiwanese Style Pork, Sichuan fish, Beijing duck, and other stuff that I did not take pictures of.



But I just had to take pictures of these delicious balls!

Happy Valley

We spent the day being amused in amusement park Happy Valley.

Scary kittens that we are, we did not take all the rides.

This one looked fine.



Being upside down for a whole ride took a little more balls.



Look at Amanda in happy anticipation of so much fun.

Just another day in China...

... with just a touch of culture shock on the side.

Welcome to Eat Zhajiangmian

On our last day in Beijing (for now), we had zhajiangmian for lunch (again).

Yum-o!

Great Beijing Food

Amanda then took us to her other new favorite restaurant: Meizhou Dongpo.



And, of course, this was an excellent choice.



The main attraction was the dongporou, pictured above: perfect texture, wonderful flavors, and as an added bonus, a little spiciness.



So good in fact, that it warrants two photos.

The other dishes (dongpo sausage, soup with a special vegetable, these vegetables with some tofu, and the tofu below) were excellent as well. But the dongporou was in a league of its own.



Here is were the magic happened:

Frog Hot Pot

Amanda took us to her new favorite restaurant, where we ate frog hot pot. Yum!

Another Cuteness Intermezzo

She's cute and she knows it!