It took a while, but we found food
Being confined to the Olympic and covid bubble can really make for an uninteresting eating experience. Robots make for good blog posts, but their culinary skills are a bit — rusty? Restaurants in the mountains more than made up for the frigid temps we found there. The first one we found was Green Dragon. which for those of you from Cornwall, should sound familiar. (For the rest of you, Green Dragons is the name nickname for our high school sports teams.
Old Beijing, in the media center hotel, was the the best of them all.
Back down in Beijing, we were allowed to go to any hotel restaurant that was housing Olympic folks. Ours, the Fijian, was not terrible. The breakfasts there were good.
As more and more hotel restaurants were tried by colleagues and friends, word made its way around about which ones had the best food.
Dawn, our Chinese colleague was my hero, finding out what did and didn’t have gluten. The night before last we found a place that served the most fantastic Peking duck, which had to be ordered hours ahead of time. Dawn, of course, took care of that for us. We followed that up with Chinese hot pot. So good.
Andrew Keh wrote this story about the eating adventures at the Olympics. It’s worth a read. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/sports/olympics/chinese-food-bubble-hotels.html
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I hope the mushroom soup tasted as good as it looked 🥢
Glad you finally found some good food! Some of it looks good. Some of it would make me join the gluten-free crowd – fish heads 🤢
When do you come home?
If this is the good food, I think I might have starved. Glad you finally found some things to enjoy. I’m impressed with your chopstick skills and recording it at the same time. It’s hilarious that the duck comes on a plate with a duck head.
I thought about the food , or lack thereof , after your last post. I intended to say that things will get better once you head home ! But from the photos , you seem to have hit on some great food while still there. Safe tripping home . I leave for Portland and Biddeford . Maine , in the morning. Last leg of my niece, Mairead’s move back above the Mason Dixon line after YEARS in Texas.
Ah, finally a duck 🐥🛁 post.
LOL 😂
Looks delicious!!
Oh Annie, that’s very funny!! 😊
Yay for a food post! Could you sneak some of those dishes into your luggage? Mostly the duck head plate! It’s a shame you had to pass on the fish heads but glad you got some good eats!! Safe trip home…to Paris we go!??
Yum, food that looks delicious enough to eat! Not sure how appetizing I find the face masks that are hung on the separation panels?!
Love the pics!
It’s about time this blog lived up to its name!! Eat up!!