Nadia got up at around 5:30 am ready to go, go, go. We waited around until they started serving breakfast and headed downstairs. It’s included with our room and has a wide variety of Chinese and Western food. Lots of fresh French bakery items since it’s a french owned hotel. The croissants and madeleines are delicious and buttery. I took Nadia to see the bunnies again in the lobby and then she climbed the marble steps and started performing. She wanted me to wait at the bottom while she did her songs and I tried to get some photos. She caused quite a sensation in the lobby with her signing and dancing. It was really funny.
We decided to brave the snow and head out to Wang Fu Jing street, which is really close to our hotel. It’s a HUGE shopping street with malls and all kinds of stores. Every possible expensive brand you can think of is down there. For those of you who watch the Food Network or Travel channel this is the street with the night time food market with the scorpions on a stick and that kind of thing. We went into one of the malls looking for lunch. Our plan was to do that and take Nadia back to the hotel for her nap. She fell asleep in the stroller while we were trying to decide what to eat. We were up on the 6th floor of the mall getting overwhelmed by all the food choices when a guy came up flashing a menu in our face telling us in English how good the spring rolls are. We decided to eat there…here is what Nadia looked like when we got seated.
We ordered Spring Rolls, Cashew Chicken (spicy for Mike) and Shrimp Fried Rice. The Spring Rolls were one of the most amazing dishes Mike and I have ever had -EVER!
The name of the restaurant was “Yummy Coconut” and here is the man who wooed us in to the place and was really entertaining while we were eating. He told us he was from Hong Kong and that was why he could speak English so well. At the end of our meal he brought us a can of Coconut Juice to taste and it was really wonderful. When I asked him to pose for a photo he said, “I want to have big muscles like him.” (pointing at Mike)
Nadia ended up sleeping through our entire meal and for another hour while Mike and I wandered around the shops in the mall. She woke up and we went into the trendiest McDonald’s on the face of the earth and we got her a happy meal and I got a pineapple fried pie. I was hoping for a banana pie like our last trip, but the pineapple was delicious.
After leaving the mall we stopped at a little grocery store to get Diet Coke, a big bottle of water, and I found Lemon flavored and Milk flavored Ritz. We also got some peanut butter and chocolate Oreos that are awesome. They are not as sweet as in America which makes them super delicious.
Once back in the room we just killed time until we could go to sleep. We were all really tired, but had to stay up. We walked up the hallway to see what they had for the evening happy hour to eat and drink. Nadia wanted milk, but they serve it here juice box style and I think it’s very highly pasteurized and she thinks it tasted odd, but she still drank it. Here she is playing in the tub with her toys and no water.
I am going to put up another post later today with photos from Mike’s camera. Now we are headed out to wander around the town.