hot pot

we woke up rather late yesterday. while making coffee - electricity went off (again - we forgot to pay!). luckily banks were open so we could buy electricity immediately.
we took a taxi with K up north, to the famous mushroom restaurant we wanted to go to basically almost a year. others took the bicycle and road part of the way.

about an hour outside of Beijing and you end up in a very roaral kind of scenery. fresh air, a lot of green trees and grass around you.

this is the kind of farm where you can pick fruits by yourself. the restaurant at the farm is a hot pot one, where the menu is comprised of numerous types of mushroom you order and cook by yourself. the dish was excellent.

we arrived back around 17:00. squash with J.

later on - another pre-scheduled hot pot dinner with M and family. one of the guests is a good friend of the owner of the restaurant. after an amazing dinner - really one of the best hot pot i ever had - it turned out that the owner insisted to make the entire dinner (9 people) on the house!

the street where the restaurant is is very nice and actually very close to our apartment.

the ming piao is for the dinner hot pot.

the pictures above are from the mushroom restaurant:
北京市顺义区北石槽镇西赵各庄南御杏园内

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