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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