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Milo dinosaur?

Kafe Peranakan

Liza and I ate at the Cafe Peranakan in Chaoyangmen Wai last Sunday (before we went to Qinhuangdao). The food's great, parang nasa Pilipinas lang kami.

Indonesian Rice

Dry Curry Chicken

From Beijing Visitor Blog: This excellent Malay restaurant located behind the Kuntai Hotel is popular with many of its regular clientele and also with visitors from the nearby Kuntai Hotel and busy Ritan, Landau and Fulllink shopping areas. Those expats ‘in the know’ also cherish a regular meal at this specialist restaurant with its exquisite flavours of Malay cooking.

# 17 Kuntai International Center
Chaowai Dajie
Chao Yang District
朝外大街昆泰国中心南17号
Telephone: 5879 0370

The Good Life

Everybody say it is hard to live and work in another country but no one would say that there aren't any perks. We dine out, go places, and drink wine.

Santa Cristina 2004 wine

A friend enjoying his glass of wine.

Life is a glass of wine...

Actually, I just watched my friends drink the wine. He he he. But I had tea... and Coke...

Dinner at Hatsune

We had dinner at Hatsune last Saturday night. It's a Japanese restaurant south east(?) of The Place (from The Place, turn left at Guanghua Lu, then look for building number 8, way past the Kerry Centre). We took a cab from Chaoyangmen Nei (fare's around 15 kuai), so it's pretty near, can't believe we haven't gone there before.

Tobal made reservations for us so we had a room (with glass doors) reserved. He originally booked for a smoker's section (Tin, Day, and Hazel, live on cigarettes) but they called him back advising him that the manager has friends who needs to use it. Funny...

Anyway, the food is great. We had three delicious servings of calamari. Grabe, sobrang sarap!

Day and Tin were running late so the food choices are up to us. It's a hard task, there's so many to choose from!

We also ordered Hatsune salad, which like your ordinary salad (you know, lettuce, onions, tomatoes, shrimp, etc.) except for the plum dressing. Ang sarap talaga!

They also have this out-of-this-world steak (that I forgot to take a photo of).

Here's the dessert. I don't know what its name but when we asked the fuwuyuan, she said something or other mousse. I'm not sure...

We had Coke, and tea, and wine. We just paid 140 yuan each. Not bad!

How am I going to lose weight???