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The third day of our vacation in Beijing.
It was quiet early in the morning that we went back to Yi Tiao Long Restaurant. Previously we went there, they told us that they open shop at 7 a.m.
We thought this restaurant would serve eat-in breakfast but they don’t. Only take away food, the only food similar to what we have back in Malaysia was the one similar to our “Bahulu Cake”. I didn’t catch what actually the Beijingers called this food; perhaps this was called Chuantong Hongji Dangao传统烘鸡蛋糕.
They also sold Sesame bread called Matuan 麻团.
SUMMER PALACE
From Line 2 we got onto Subway Line 4 at Xizhimen Station and got off at Beigongmen Station.
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| Summer palace is the place of gardens and palaces, it was an imperial garden during Qing Dynasty. |
We entered the Summer Palace through the north gate. We bought the though ticket that enabled us to go to all locations within this Summer Palace aka Well-nourished Harmony Garden (颐和园 Yíhéyuán). This so called palace was actually a garden (a royal park if you want to describe it) has some interesting buildings.
The Suzhou Street in Summer Palace was a similar resemblance of a town located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province in Eastern China, or perhaps a part of it.
We need to pass through the Pine Courtyard before climbing stairs to get to Longevity Hill. There was a cluster of Buddhist buildings designed in accordance with the Tibetan style of architecture. They were called Sida Buzhou (Four Great Regions) having Xiangyan Zongyin Zhi Ge Hall as the centre attraction. This group of Buddhist structures named Sida Buzhou being the symbol for Sumeru Mountain.
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| Marble Boat in Beijing Summer Palace Yiheyuan |
We proceeded to the Marble Boat that was located at the Kunming Lake within the Summer Palace. My photo taken at this location was not clear because of time of the day that the sun was located directly in front of the camera. This Marble Boat was very lovely.
We walked along the long corridor that has many paintings being painted on the rafter of the corridor. They said having 14,000 paintings but we never counted them. We entered the Tower of Buddhist Incense at Summer Palace, Garden of Virtue and Harmony and Wenchang Gallery. We arrived at Seventeen Arches Bridge to an island called Nanhu Island (南湖岛).
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| Kunming Lake. Tower of Buddhist Incense in the backdrop |
We thought that we could circle the lakeside, but we have limited time and we got other interesting locations to go; otherwise we will be very tired when we reach there.
We left Summer Palace through the exit at Wenchang Gallery with the guide using an app on my wife’s android hand phone. Once we reached outside and turned left. We walked along Tongqing Street (同庆街) until we reached Yiheyuan road where Xiyuan Subway station was located.
We boarded Line 4 subway at Xiyuan Station and changed to line 2 at Xidan Station and got off at Yong’anli Station.
ISTANBUL TURKISH RESTAURANT
Istanbul Turkish Restaurant was located along Xiushui Nanjie, Beijing. The landmark to find this restaurant was CITIC building, a really tall building and easily seen from in front of Xiu Shuijie Shopping Centre. We walked towards CITIC building and Xiushui Nanjie was located at the back of CITIC building. Ordered kebab, rice and mineral water Laoshan kuangquan shui (崂山矿泉水)
XIUSHUI JIE (SILK STREET SHOPPING CENTRE)
With one look, they just knew it that we're both Malaysians of Malay Ethnic. They attracted our attention to enter their shops by speaking in Malay,”masuk, masuk, murah, murah”.
I also bumped into some Malaysians; one of them was a familiar face, the Chief of Armed Forces, with his guys. Perhaps they were in Beijing attending some events but today they spend time doing shopping.
BEIJING NATIONAL STADIUM (NIAOCHAO) AND BEIJING NATIONAL AQUATICS CENTER (SHUI LIFANG)
Olympic Sports Center Subway Station (Aoti Zhongxin Zhan) walked out from B2 exit. There were some events going on that they put some barricade.
We could only view the buildings from the public square in front of exit B2. We could see Water Cube Building that changed its light colours. We could also see the China Stadium building that looked like as if it was made out of some woven strings.
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