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Here are a few things I’ve learned - apparently, ANYONE and EVERYONE here can cook great food. Obviously we’re searching every dark alley for good food, but it’s simply everywhere else too - our hostel, the fast food places (seriously) and any place you can think of.

Another thing I’ve learned is that I really only need about a half cup of rice for any meal - and then the rest is the actual dish. So when I get back home, I need to remember that I am no longer going eat a plate full of rice along with the main dish.

Tonight we are going for some of that famous Beijing duck. Oh yes. You should be jealous.

Let me just tell you out loud - it is a great thing to be here and work on ‘work’. Even though the idea of having to work on ‘vacation’ seems like it would suck - whatever. I think it’s great.

Add to the last few days the fact that we’ve still got a substantial amount of the country to cover, to see, to write about, and to eat.

The above was and below was for breakfast yesterday.

Above: braised eggplant with bell peppers - we wandered through several hutongs looking for an appropriately run down place to eat at for lunch.

Below: A chicken dish that we will never know the name of - and yes, it was quite awesome.

Finally, since I’m telecommuting and doing a lot of my reports today, here’s what I had for lunch:

It’s nearing 2AM here in Beijing and I’m just up finishing some work and then posting really quick.

First, here is Leah saying good morning today before we went out and about. (tomorrow is my turn to be ummmm.. embarassingly awesome - we’ll get better as the days go on)

I was gonna do a quick run down, but I’ll leave that for the morning. Here are some shots from tonight - we walked around some hutongs and ate some street food - we were just way too tired after our great day to go to the real night market and get overwhelmed. That will be tomorrow night. But still, the dark dark alleys around our hostel are excellent. These are all unedited photos.

Goodnight.