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23 Nov 2008
Had an amazing day. First we went into Beijing for curry - it was the first time I had had curry since I arrived in China and it tasted amazing - Paneer masala, Lentil Dal, 2 types of bread and popadoms. It was the most expensive meal I have had here at £9 a head, but worth every penny (or jiao!). After this we went to the friendship store to try and buy some souveniers, but it was not at all what we expected and turned out only to sell expensive jewellery, silk and potteryware - very disappointing. We decided to move on and walked a little further up the road to the silk market where I bought some chopsticks and a jumper. I almost came to blows with the assistant who was really giving it the hard sale on the jumper. She tried telling me it was cashmere which it clearly wasn't and then wanted to charge me 980 yuan! I finally settled on 50 yuan. Popped into starbucks on the way to the subway and tried their Christmas special Dark Cherry Mocha which finished off the day nicely and then got the bus home.
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