Hanging Gardens of Beer

Yesterday I went to what I call a beer buffet. The beer was Yinging and my head was placed wide-open right under the tap. In addition to this the place had to offer various things to go with the beer: famously good chicken in different forms is their main attraction for non-Finns, plus not bad pizza, tasty cakes, and the usual buffet stuff. All this just for 7 bucks! Alternatively, if you care pizza more than chicken, then Big Pizza's buffet is the place for you. It has very good pizza for the same price, plus ice cream, soups, two tables full of other foodstuff

Now weeks later I've learned that this is not the whole truth, I mean don't expect to munch away delicious pizza for a cheap price. If you like your pizza to have a thin bottom, that can be harder to come by. Everyone keeps saying Pizza Hut is the best (it's supposed to be really different from those of Western countries, they've remodelled everything). It's good with a lot of stuff you can't find in the Western world in a pizza. But that's 10$. Mr. Pizza is my favorite in terms of taste. Same price level, if not even a tiny bit more.

Too bad Chinese people never drink in order to get drunk, so I had to refrain myself from drinking excessive amounts of beer buffet's beer and special extremely sweet wine.

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Hunt'er And The Fox

Wow, I feel like a rat caught between a snack and a trap. You see I like Chinese women, but most of them want to marry before having sex, or then they just can't deal with a break-up, since they get this idea that a relationship is forever. So I thought I might set the same trap for you guys. Here's the deal: in North-West China there is an area of villages where everything is quite primitive, to the extent that it's the women who control the society. It's purely matriarchal: if a woman wants to have sex with you, there's no refusing, unless you want to go to jail or smth worse and more tribal-like. And this happens a lot. The Chinese have allowed them to have their own their own legislation in order to maintain the minority intact. And here's the trap: although this might sound like a nice place for a single man, it's very dangerous because of the unpredictability of the justice system. Well, there you have it, a case of primitive justice and primal urges...

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Hobo Dreams

I hear it's possible to rent a flat in Beijing for 45 US dollars per month and live in this rather wonderful place (I'm thinking the next summer when it's warm out here). The cons of renting plan are that such a place is a dump. First of, there's no heating (but I wonder, if in Finland one can buy a portable heater for small money, it shouldn't be that difficult here either). And the dump might lack other stuff as well. Don't know about if it has running water or not. But public toilets are everywhere and thanks to the communistic era, they are free! This is just one of my plans that run along the lines of earning a salary in a rich country and then going to spend it carefully and slowly in a cheap country. Preferably in a big city.

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Enter The Dragon In Me

I will be staying 3 months in Beijing with my relatives in China. Sounds like the worst case scenario? Well, in practice it's certainly not. The Chinese are very nice toward a foreigner as is the Chinese custom. I mean, after all, this is the country that was in war against Japan, and how did the Chinese treat the Japanese prisoners-of-war? Well, they let their own boys go without water, while they made sure their prisoners lived in relative luxury. All I'm saying, I like it here in the "Northern Capital"!

Weather might be as cold as where I hail from, somewhere there under the Northern sky, but the people sure ain't that cold here. Beijing is after all at the same horizontal axis with Rome, and here the food plays as integral part in people's lifes as it does in the City of Twin Wolves (in Rome everyone must have a wolf of their own to take to the ancient parks). If you want to connect with the Beijingers, food topic is the way go.

And I sure like eating here, they've got everything a Westerner can hope for, plus an endless assortment of their own food. Right now my favorite is a big bowl of noodles for about one dollar in a street noodle joint, popular among the locals, especially among the workers. My favorite snack is something they sell on a street for 30 US cents. Only thing they don't have is a large enough selection of ice cream except in the summer season, and they don't have frozen pizza in every hypermarket. Oh, plus they don't have chocolate pudding in hypermarket, only some stuff with cheese in it.

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