Things You Don’t Usually See in Beijing
A couple things I caught with my cell phone camera around Beijing this week:
Rickshaw now carries the great Brooklyn beer. It’ll cost you RMB35 plus a special Olympics 15% service fee, but it’s worth it to have a beer with flavor:
For the Olympics, some of the merchants in Ya-Show Market actually removed fake labels from their knock-off clothes. Here’s a knock-off Max Mara, according to the woman selling it:
Seriously, the venues have no real food. Their menus say they have a few things, but in case you wanted to buy anything from the boxing venue, they have hand-written signs telling you not to get too excited:
If you have good pictures from around Beijing during the Olympics send them to me and I’ll post them:
Josh (at) cupofcha (dot) com
Things You Don’t Usually See in Beijing responds:
Posted: August 18th, 2008 at 1:47 am →
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Elana responds:
Posted: August 18th, 2008 at 10:54 pm →
Glad to see that Brooklyn beer has made it to your neck of the woods!