Wandered around Nan Louguxing Street in search of a mechanical fish. Our friend and hostess Trish the librarian has an amazing tin toy fish on her coffee table and I asked her where she got it. “I knew you were going to ask me that,” she said. So she drug these two poets down to a really hep little part of Beijing – the Hou Hai district.
We purchased the fish – careful to be sure it worked before paying for it – a good thing because only one of the three in stock was operational. We lunched at a Vietnamese place called Nuage and then, that evening had a roast duck dinner with John and Nadine – the rest of the triumvirate of librarians who are responsible for our visit here to the smoggy capital of China.
The astounding whale eating fish
Stay tuned, more to come…
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