Recently, I traveled to China and it was an amazing travel experience. I loved everything about it! The most exciting thing was being in an environment vastly different from the one I see daily. I was absolutely amazed at how clean Beijing was and how with 20 million people the sidewalks were as clean as downtown Charleston's streets. Beijing seems to go on and on, the city itself is miles and miles wide.
One of my favorite experiences was having lunch at a local families home. The food was AMAZING!!! We walk into this small house where there is one bedroom and one sitting room. The meal consisted of authentic Chinese food the locals eat everyday. We dined on a Chinese cabbage slaw, eggplant with cilantro and soy sauce, pork meatballs, rice, and spicy tofu. There were several things we had that I am not quite sure what they were but they were delicious!! Also, that meal we got cold coke vs. the other meals were are soda was a room temperature.
The meal:
The Summer Palace was one of my favorite places we visited in Beijing. As you walked through the gates, your ears start to hear the sounds of a chinese flute and your eyes start to see the visual of weeping willows, cherry blossom trees, and ancient architecture. We were lucky to visit China in the spring season because the new growth on everything made a beautiful landscape.
