Dinner - Beijing

After the big Peking Duck lunch, we walked off our meal at Tiananmen Square:

It's the third largest public square in the World and behind the Tiananmen gate lies the Forbidden City. 

The Forbidden City was designed to be the fortified home of the Emperor and his family with 9,999 rooms. Then outside the Forbidden City would be the Imperial City and the Inner and Outer Courts. 

The Hall of Supreme Harmony

The grounds are so large: I couldn't help but think that it must have been torturous for all the women with their bound feet to walk to the palace.

Afterwards, we went to the Olympic Green to see the Birds' Nest and Water Cube.

For dinner, we got to eat dumplings:

Spicy pork, peppers and onions

Why is it that all the spicy dishes in Beijing taste so good? Sadly for me, I can't eat too much of the dishes or else my mouth feels like it's on fire... I'm so limited.

Egg and choy

Slightly bland dish

Sweet and sour pork

The sweet and sour sauce was different: it was about 90% sweet and not sour at all. 

Dumplings

Apparently we were given a mix of all their different dumplings; unfortunately, I only tasted the pork and leek dumpling and I didn't recognize the rest.

Overall: We thought we were only going to be eating dumplings, but turns out we got bowls of rices and main dishes along with the dumplings. Quite a lot of food and it wasn't that great.