by cooper-admin | Jan 9, 2025 | Korea & China
Today is Angie’s birthday, so I mostly left it up to her what we should do for the day. In the morning, we went to a restaurant near my hotel for some zhajiangmian (炸酱面) breakfast. This popular dish from Beijing features large flat white noodles with a salty pork...
by cooper-admin | Jan 8, 2025 | Korea & China
Today we were originally planning on going to the Great Wall of China, but decided to delay this to another day and rest for the day as the previous day was quite a big day for us all. Rather, after leaving Angie’s aunt and uncle’s countryside house, we went...
by cooper-admin | Jan 5, 2025 | Korea & China
Today we planned to drive outside of Beijing city heading north to visit Angie’s Uncles factory and go skiing. Angie’s parents picked me up in the morning from the hotel. We had had some bao buns in the car on the way to the factory. We drove from the south of Beijing...
by cooper-admin | Jan 5, 2025 | Korea & China
Today Angie and two of her cousins all went together to the Beijing Universal Studios. Angie’s aunt kindly drove us all there first thing in the morning so we would arrive right before the opening time. When we arrived at the entrance, we waited in the queue for a...
by cooper-admin | Jan 5, 2025 | Korea & China
Today we sadly left Korea, leaving Angie’s apartment where she sadly said her final goodbyes to her old home. On the other hand, though, our adventure together is continuing to Beijing China, somewhere I have wanted to visit for a few years now, and before that, never...
