Today we got a dose of home cooking in Beijing. To get there we walked past shops, some surprising,
and then took rickshaws.
I noticed a different type of doorbell as we entered the home:
After the meal, we had a celebrated guest to give a show and tell: a cricket trainer.
Gambling on cricket fighting is illegal, but that doesn't stop huge sums of money changing hands. We didn't see a fight, but we did see a few sturdy crickets.
As a bonus, we had a demonstration of a Chinese Zither.
In the afternoon we visited the Temple of Heaven and relaxed in the gardens.
A garden of rocks, or alien pods. You decide.
In the late afternoon we stopped off at the street of cunning calligraphers - or at least a street where every second shop was selling calligraphy brushes and paraphernalia (I think it was called Liulichang).
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