Weekend with Jordana

We spent the other weekend with our friend, Jordana, who's currently living and working in Nepal. She was kind enough to route her trip through Beijing, so we met her there. Chase had one extra night with her but when I arrived on Friday, we met some of our old friends and went to a Yunnan neighborhood restaurant which I must say is the best Yunnan food I've had outside of Yunnan! That is until next weekend when we take Chase's parent's to Kris' Yunnan restaurant. Kris is pictured on the left. It's not his but he is the Executive Chef at the Crowne Plaza where it's located.




We were the last diners and in fact they sent the chefs home and had to call them back just for us to eat! The waitresses sang us some songs at the end of our meal and told us to get going.... so we insisted on pictures with them. It was great fun.


The next day we had brunch at Capital M which overlooks Tiannanmen and the Forbidden City. Wonderful atmosphere and the weather was great.


We took Jordana for a walk around the Forbidden City and we met this little guy who was posing for photographs thanks to his parents who put him up on this ledge. Seriously...


Later that evening we met some other friends for Pizza at The Tree and drinks at Apothecary which is apparently a new hot spot on Beijing. So much has changed in one year there!

It was great to be back in Beijing and I will always say that. It's the city with the most imperial feel and everything is just so massive- huge streets, huge buildings, etc. I look forward to going back in a few days.