Today is our second full day in Beijing and we had a tour planned out. The tour driver was going to pick us up from our hotel at 7am so my mom and I ventured to our favorite supermarket restaurant called Western Mahua down the block to eat breakfast. We each got a bowl of soup intestines (7 yen), a hot bowl of unsweetened soybean milk (3 yen) and seaweed (3 yen). Even my mom still does not know what it is but she guesses that it is intestines and daikon soup with glass noodles.
After seeing the Ming tombs and trapped in a brief detour to the jade carving factory, we were served lunch at a restaurant right at the bottom of the Mutianyu Great Wall. They gave us a variety of dishes composed of all chicken and white rice. They also served hot jasmine tea too. I was surprised at how much food they gave us but we did share with 8 other people from our tour group. The food was decent, not bad but not super good either. Enough for satisfy and fill me.
My mom and I had a blast at the Mutianyu Great Wall. We took the cable car to the very top, walked an hour to the right until we hit the toboggan slides. And we slid down!!!!
My mom was upset at me in the beginning for forcing her to slide down but afterwards, she was smiling and kept saying that was so fun and she would wanna come back to do it again! We even paid a little extra for a picture of us sliding down too! What a success! 🙂
For dinner, we went to MYDO Pie, which is a little window next to the supermarket to buy these meat pies we were eyeing at yesterday. We got four pies for 7 yen each: two saucy pork and leek pies, one mushroom pork pie and one teriyaki chicken pie. They were all so good and surprisingly very filling.
The mushroom pork pie was super savory and a bit too salty for me.
The saucy pork and leek pie was my favorite. The meat was tender and flavor profile was good.
The teriyaki chicken surprised me too! I thought I would not like it because it’ll be too sweet but it wasn’t at all!!
Then we stopped by a boba shop across the street for me to try Beijing’s boba. I got the classic hot milk tea with regular sized boba for 10 yen. The milk tea was very good. The boba was chewy but not sweet.
If you look at the straw, their boba is clear! Not black!
