My Favorite Foods

My favorite restaurants in Beijing are Quan Ju De, Da Dong, Fat Burger, Bellagio, and Hi Di Lau. Quan Ju De (全聚德）and Da Dong （大董）both serve the same food: Beijing duck. The duck is roasted and a chef comes out from the kitchen with the duck in a cart, and you get to watch the chef cut it up. The duck is good because it's crunchy, juicy, and I like the sauce. I think both restaurants are as good, but Da Dong always has a huge line if you don't make a reservation.

Fat Burger serves burgers and it's so good! It's good because of their skinny fries. We just went there for Curtis' birthday.

Bellagio (鹿港小镇）is a restaurant that serves Cantonese and Taiwanese food, and its so good too! I especially like their roast pork （叉烧）. After we finish eating, we always stop by Honey Moon Dessert （满记）, and I always get my durian pancake or some mango juice thing （杨枝干露）.

Hai Di Lau （海地捞）is a hot pot restaurant. At night you probably would have to wait like one hour, but while you are waiting, you can get your shoes shined, nails painted, eat free food and drink juice, play games, etc. When you eat they give you an apron. You can also make your own sauce for your food, and the food is delicious.

The Poconos

In the summer I went to the Poconos 2 times. I went with my Mom and my Aunt, cousin, cousin's friend, my brother, two of my friends with their Mom and Dad, our 3 other friends with their Mom. That time we stayed at a dirty hotel, the Ramada Inn. It had bugs all over the place, and sometimes the ac didn't work. There was yellow water first when you turn on the faucet. But we only stayed one night. 

On the first day we went to Camelback Beach, a water park. 

Then the next day we went white water rafting. It was fun but it rained a lot. During that weekend, my favorite part was white water rafting!

 

On the second trip I went with my Dad's family and my other cousin's family. We stayed at the Great Wolf Lodge. Everybody loved it! We only stayed for one night though. The first thing we did was play at the water park! Then we ate at a buffet and it was good! At night we got these wands and played a game called Magiquest and ran around the hotel acting like a wizard, knight, king, princess, and a Queen. My favorite part was Magiquest and the water park!

My Day in New York

On my mom's birthday we went to New York. We drove to New Jersey and took a train to New York. We walked 7 blocks from the train station to the Lion King show on Broadway. Lion King was really good. My favorite part of Lion King was the beginning when they sang Circle of Life and the jokes. 

After Lion King we ate at Shake Shack. I had a hot dog. We walked to the LEGO and Nintendo store. There were a lot of old games consoles. We walked to eat ice cream at Grome and I had melon sorbet with lemon sorbet.

We went to Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. It was really cool looking at the wax figures. 

In the Wax Museum there was a super hero video with the Avengers and Spiderman. After the Wax Museum we took a train to Philly.

First Post!

After moving to Beijing from Philadelphia in December 2011, I have meant to start a blog documenting our move and travel. But it only took me a month or two to realize all blogs that are not self hosted (like blogger, wordpress.com) are blocked. It was actually a very disturbing month, because every time I google "Why can't I log onto blogger", or other things, half the time the results returned are well, posts on someone's blog, unreadable because the blog is blocked. 

But I learned, although not quickly. After seven months of simply being too lazy, I guess it's time to start writing and preserving our memories. And it has been a fun seven months, and I'll slowly get to it.