Walking from the office to the local xiaomaibu for my usual breakfast of champions (two diet cokes and a jianbing), I happened to bump into a Dutch fellow who inquired of me where he might find a market that sells bacon and eggs. Eggs are easy. Bacon in this part of Haidian? Not so much. We got to talking and it turns out that he drove to Beijing from Holland in a 44-year old Volvo. He says the ride was uneventful, though the Chinese border guards did raise their rifles as his car appeared on the highway coming towards them. After some comical raising of hands and “Don’t Shoot!” it turned all to the good: they let him and his car in, and he’s staying here on campus for the Olympic Games. No word on whether he ever found his ration of bacon.
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1 Brendan // Aug 8, 2008 at 4:42 am
There is (or was, at least) a Pricemart on Xueyuan Lu north of BLCU - just north of 林大北路, in fact - that stocked bacon. Well do i remember the day that I found that place.
2 chriswaugh_bj // Aug 8, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Was a Pricemart up there. It’s been gone for a long time. The Lotus in Wudaokou would perhaps be a better bet.
Back when I just moved in to DiDa a colleague gave me directions to that Pricemart, and I somehow managed to walk right past it all the way out to Qinghe.
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