beijing duck and other new dishes

For my birthday last week I had the first ever Beijing duck, a dish that is probably on every tourist must-do list (and was also on my bucket list). Yes, it was good and came with its own certificate as a souvenir. The lovely hostess shows us how to properly wrap our little duck pieces – oh it looked so easy, but I didn’t manage to wrap even one that didn’t collapse on some end… Maybe next time I’ll do better.

We even had a bottle of the local wine, Great Wall, and I think that the older vintages are rather drinkable, contrary to what one often hears about Chinese wines. I must also admit that they make a huge selection of delicious vegetable dishes here – I am completely in awe every time I have aubergine (eggplant); it can be prepared in so many delicious ways!

Our duck is being prepared next to our table

Time to enjoy the duck feast

And since it is Friday I’m going to add my curious Friday picture here too. I’ve posted this in the Facebook account last week, but here goes again the wonderful birthday bouquet the Chinese way – with blue glittery roses, red and white roses and pink carnations!

Blue glitter roses and more