Archive for Beijing
Duh?!
Posted in Books, Mountains, pictures with tags Beijing, Canadian Rockies, Chris Jones, Cultural Revolution, George Lowe, Le Monde, Mao Zedong, mass murders, MIT, obituary, Piolet d'Or, Red Guards on October 24, 2024 by xi'an
Chez Guy**(*)
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel, Wines with tags Beijing, chef, guinea fowl, Guy Savoy, Hôtel de la Monnaie, lobster, MIchelin starred restaurant, Paris, Quai Conti, Seine, Winter Olympics on May 15, 2023 by xi'an
While I rarely enter company sweepstakes and lotteries (and correlatively never win!), I answered a contest from my credit card company around the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and won the prize of having a Chinese dinner cooked at home by a chef, news that I first treated as a spam for being so improbable. The communication agency in charge of the rewards insisted enough and offered the alternative choice of a top restaurant, which we eventually opted as Guy Savoy in Paris. We went there for lunch last week and enjoyed tremendously the unique experience!, from the location in the historical French Mint, with a monumental entrance, and tables overlooking the Seine,
to the round of dishes, colour themes and fabulous tastes, the apex being the hardly coked lobster!,
to chatting with the sommelier about unknown vintages and the staff about the dishes, and of course having a great time altogether!
the pillar of shame [04 June 1989]
Posted in Kids, pictures with tags 04 June 1989, Beijing, China, Hong Kong, Jens Galschiot, Pillar of Shame, sculpture, Tiananmen Square Massacre, University of Hong Kong, 國殤之柱 on June 4, 2021 by xi'an
30 years later… [30年后]
Posted in pictures with tags '89 Democracy Movement, Beijing, China, communist party, June Fourth Incident, Tian An Men, Tiananmen Square Massacre, Wrocław commemoration monument, 六四事件, 天安門 on June 4, 2019 by xi'an
