This time, we didn't go to a fancy restaurant, but tried out the popular chain Xiabu Xiabu - where you are cramped with a 100 other people and fuwuyuans taking orders yelling on top of their voices so you hear them. It's an experience in itself.
Do ask for an English menu, they have one!
Ordering Hotpot -
Step 1. Choose a soup. You'll have a choice between Clear/ Spicy/ Hot and sour etc
Step 2. Choose the veggies Chinese cabbage, spinnach, mushroom...
Step 3. Choose your meat Mutton, beef, Sea food
Step 4. Choose your sauce - Peanut sauce, Chilly sauce etc...
Step 5. Wait till soup is hot and bubbly, add in choice of meat or veggies, wait till cooked, dip in sauce and eat... Yummm....
Perfect for a cold winter evening.
Though Beijing winters are dry (everything you touch is STATIC!) and grey... there is something about this season that can't help but make you feel merry! We did go again this year for the German Embassy Christmas Bazaar, we had to queue up for an hour and a half before we got in! We had our share of Gluhwein and Stollen and carried the Christmas cheer back home and put up our Christmas tree...
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| Christmas at home |
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| German Embassy Christmas Bazaar 2011 |
More on Christmas and how we are coping up with Beijing's winter in my next post!
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