different views of Beijing

Today, we decided to try the subway out... because we went out again last night, we managed to go out of the house around 2PM. We found a subway station after a 15 minutes drive with a taxi in a very strange area. All the subway stops outside of the main line seem to be in remote areas.

We ended up in Wang Fu Jing market, east of the heart of the city. The area can offer the visitor within seconds completely different views on Beijing. One can spend the whole day in a 7 floor story high Book Store, or pay high prices on all the "hautte coutture" fashion shops in the various department stores. Just minutes away, there are side streets, which can show the visitor the old city, busy streets and some crazy food being cooked. I have to brag about eating some strange insect and sea horse... yuck!!! (look what peer pressure does to people)
Barbara, Sarah's friend visiting from Korea, tried every single weird thing that we found... from scorpions to locusts.

I have actually seen the real Nike, Gucci, Adidas and other brands who are highly hunted in the fake markets. As you are in the stores, very few accept International credit cards so people will always have impressive amount of money to pay with.