Good Morning Beijing!
When everybody was rushing for work, buying breakfasts from the street food stalls and chasing after transport buses, we followed suit - buying their favourite 灌饼, Egg Crepes with Lettuce (¥2, S$0.40) and Soybean milk (¥1, S$0.20). Both were nice!
Bounded for an afternoon flight back today, i woke up early to catch more of the city... Ric was feeling much better today :)
Egg Crepes were prepared on such hot plate, similarly for this other variation of crepes - the only different lies in its ingredients used, and therefore was pricier.
紫米煎饼, Purple Rice Pan Crepe (¥4.50, S$0.90)
Looking pretty? We had this outside the Panjiayuan Market.
As in most developing cities, Beijing has its sizable share of innovative food vendors who came up with ideas for the most sellable food stuffs, making a living out of it. Some had even became the city staple food and part of its culture!
These were some that we came across.
Beijing 烧饼, Shaobing buns
The cakes, desserts and bread from the Beijing Halal food stall drawn as much crowd as the traditional Beijing baked buns, the Shaobing. Many locals packed bags of these home!
肉夹馍, "Meat Sandwiched in Bun" (¥5, S$1)
These were the food stalls at the foot of the Badaling Great Wall, and we bought the soft steamed buns stuffed with mutton and green pepper bell for our hunger pangs!
Melon fruit (¥1, S$0.20)
On the background, you see roasted sweet potatoes? Yes :)
These were what that really distracted us as we were trying to locate the routes to Niujie Mosque; gigantic Sunflowers for sales!!? No, they were actually Sunflower Seeds. And the hawker invited us to try!
Oh, how silly were we! Having only seen these seeds in nice packaging, i never knew its fundamental form. It tasted a tad raw cos we were used to the ones which underwent roasting process, these were just intriguing looking at!
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