Sunrise above the clouds

Beijing Capital Airport Terminal 3

Picture of a sand storm

I have been really busy doing other things and this blog stayed without new publications for a really long time.

Well, I guess it is time to change that, or at least try.

For the new beginning I want to show you the only picture of a sand storm I took myself. It may not seem like such a big deal, but when you are there, you wake up,  it is just yellow outside and at the time you have no idea why, it is really exciting…

This is how the campus of my university looked around 11.30 a.m. The picture is not photoshoped.

Happy New Chinese Year! :)

新年快乐！万事如意！一切都好！: )

 Happy New Chinese Year! :)

An evening walk along Haihe in Tianjin

Here some pictures of an evening walk along Haihe  river in Tianjin.


A beautiful building by the river:

 The Jiefang bridge :

Tianjin world financial center, the unknown beautiful building and Dagu Bridge:

I really thought this was on Opera House, but can`t find it in Google right now, so an other unknown building:

 The Dagu bridge and some buildings:

A view from Dagu bridge towards Jiefang bridge:

 

Tianjin World Financial Center:  

The Chinese "black" eggs

As long as I know, there are two kinds of "black" eggs in China. One of them is boiled in tea, the other one stayed for a long time in some mixture.
Here you can find more info about the second kind.
I will talk about both kinds later, now, I will just show you a picture of the second kind:

Beijing aquarium

 The Beijing aquarium is one of the places, I will not talk about and let the video tell the story. It is next to the Beijing zoo, very easy to find in Beijing. The largest inland aquarium in the world. Enjoy!
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A strange fish with funny "haircut" :

 The largest tank of the aquarium.

 A different strange fish:

 Another one:

 And another one:

 The biggest tank again. Pay attention to the human. Visitors, especially under the age of 12, find him rather amusing

 And the biggest tank with the human again, just a few seconds later:

 Part of the performance of the dolphins. You can hear them sing around the end:

 And a part of the performance of the sea lion:

The National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing

This is a place, which  is probably not included in the tours of Beijing. There are really a lot of things you could visit there and if you have only a day or two the time would definitely not be enough for everything.

But yet, if you are at Tiananmen square and have some 20 minutes free time (enough to take a look from outside) or an hour (enough to go inside too), I think you will not be sorry if you cross the street, so you are on the side of the Great Hall of the People, walk around it and exactly on the opposite side of it, you will see the National Center for Performing Arts.

It is a beauty. You will see that immediately.  It is encircled in water and looks very peacefully and the same time a kind of unreal.

And if you have some more time, to go inside, the real adventure begins.

You enter at the end of the lake, buy a visitor ticket and start walking in an amazing corridor with water over  your head. Yes, exactly, you are walking under the lake and the ceiling is transparent, so you can see both the water with its small waves and the sun above it. It is really a very pleasant walk.

Then you go to the building. It is huge inside and really majestic. With the visitor ticket you can see different halls every day (it depends which one  is busy at the moment).

I had the chance to see the Opera Hall. I felt really sorry that I don`t have a professional camera which could take a decent picture of something like that. It is amazing! Really very, very beautiful.  

And at the end, I wish you all to have a chance to enjoy it yourself!

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A view from outdside:

 Antoher one:

 The transparent ceiling with the water and the sun:

 The corridor with the transparent ceiling:

And this is how it looks inside:

 A view from inside:

The clicking rice

Yes, sometimes it does happen. Or at least you feel a few clicks every time you chew. In a chain of Korean restaurants in China, you can order rice with roe. The roe is a little bit bigger than usual and with thicker membrane, so it clicks between your teeth every time you chew. It is definitely strange, but you can get used to it.

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Without a dessert?

The idea of a dessert or a sweet after the meal is not present in the traditional Chinese culture. According to it, everything is supposed to be on the table and people are eating whatever they want, whenever they want it. Mixing the tastes doesn`t really bother the Chinese. For them it is completely natural to bite a piece of chocolate and add some rice with vegetables or mushroom soup.

What I personally find very funny, is that at the restaurants, they usually serve the soup last, completely opposite to the western habit.

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