It was our last night in Beijing as we checked into Changfeng Hotel, a 4-star Garden-style Business Hotel located in Fengtai District, Beijing.

Dear & I had gone from Beijing for 2 days to visit Tianjin & Chengde, & were back to Beijing for our last night’s stay, before flying to Hong Kong the next morning.

The Hotel porters getting our luggages out from the back of our Chinese driver Sifu’s van.

Stepping into our Room in Changfeng Hotel - it was a pretty small room, but very clean, nice & cosy, with very comfortable beds!! And it even has a plasma TV - how Cool!!  

I’ve put the photos taken of our Room in the following Slideshow :

Soon after, Dear & I went out again cos we wanted to go shopping & eating!!! YES YES how could we just stay inside our Room on our LAST night in Beijing!! Of course we had to go out & had some fun!!

In order not to get lost, but more cos my Mom never fails to remind us to take Hotel name cards with their addresses on them whenever we were to go out exploring on our own in foreign countries, so that we won’t get lost etc etc - Dear & I took the following Changfeng Hotel name cards on which we got the Hotel Receptionist to write down the Chinese words of the place ”Shun Si Tiao”, & the Shopping Mall ”Gui You Da Sa” which we would be going!

Outside Changfeng Hotel, Beijing :

Below is a Slideshow containing the photos I took after we left our Hotel Room, inclusive of photos of the views & buildings of the Beijing Streets I took from where I was seated inside our Taxi ride :

Changfeng Hotel is located pretty near to some Shopping Malls, & in less than 15 mins, Dear & I were at the below “Gui You Da Sa” in “Shun Si Tiao” road :

Below Slideshow contains photos taken inside “Gui You Da Sa” :

Dear & I spent some time window shopping inside ”Gui You Da Sa”, after which we decided to walk towards the left side of the outside Street, hoping to find more places to shop & explore : 

And we came across this below 4-storey Mall so Dear & I excitedly checked it out!!

The following Slideshow contains photos Dear & I took inside the 4-storey Mall :

We shopped till the shops inside the 4-storey Mall closed at 8.30pm (from 7.30pm), & I bought the following Bag & Shoes - I needed these Shoes badly cos the weather was changing & becoming warmer & less cold, & cos during that day & night & in some places I visited during the last 1 day, the Chinese actually stared at me & looked me up & down as though I was an Alien from some kind of weird nation, not cos of my Red hair, but cos I was wearing Boots!! So I decided that no matter what, I must find normal Shoes to wear asap!! And I was lucky I managed to find the below very comfortable & pretty Shoes!

We next walked to Carrefour which was just a very short distance away, beside the 4-storey Shopping Mall :

I bought the following 3 sets of beautiful outfits from Carrefour for my Mom. These pants suits originally cost about 400 Yuans each, but I got them at an incredible sales of only 99 Yuans!! The Materials are really soft & good, their designs are lovely with glittering flowers & colored shinny beads, & best of all, they’re non-grease too!! Hahaha I couldn’t believe my luck!! And happiest of all, Mom loves them so much & get so many compliments from neighbours & friends whenever she’s wearing them, making herself so so proud heehee!!

And Dear got the below hooded Coca Cola Sweater - we’re both great lovers of Coca Cola drinks!!!

Below Slideshow contains photos I took inside Carrefour, & the rest of the photos I took after we left Carrefour, whereby Dear & I walked further backwards to the Street (infront & opposite “Gui You Da Sa”) where there were many Restuarants & Eateries, looking for Supper of course heehee!!

Dear & I were walking along the stretch of Street full of Restaurants & Eateries, when I decided we stopped & have our supper in the following Restaurant!!

Guess I chose this particular Restaurant cos it was the biggest & most elegant of all in the Street haha!!

And it so happened that this beautiful Restaurant is a famous Restaurant - I was so so smart ha!!

It’s called “The Single Place” (or “Duyichu” in Chinese), built in the 3rd year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. With a history of 260 years, this Resturant has become one of the 1st-grade State Restaurants! Wow Wow how lucky we were to find this Restaurant!!!

Inside the Restaurant now :

Dear & I were so happy to see that there’s a fake replica Peking Duck on display at the Restaurant’s main entrance!! Heehee just nice cos we intended to eat Peking Duck again!!

Nice grand Restaurant, with elegant Rosewood Chinese furnitures, with red Silk seat Cushions for the chairs, which looked exactly like what my parents used to have in their former house!! Very beautiful!

Dear seated inside the historical famous “The Single Place” or “Duyichu” Restaurant, with our cans of very COLD Sprite & Coke :

The very authentic “Duyichu” Restaurant Menu :

The Restaurant’s signature dish is the Steamed Dumplings (which they also call Stuffed Buns in “Duyichu” style) - the culinary flavour of Shandong & Beijing.

Such unique pretty Steamed Dumplings that look like Flowers blooming!!

There’re even colorful Steamed Dumplings - so gorgeous!!

And of course when Dear asked which type of the Steamed Dumplings I’d like to have, I picked the most colorful ones!

Well, Dear & I had initially wanted to order the Restaurant famous Peking Duck, but unfortunately we had to call off the idea cos it would take us 45 mins for it to be ready!! So we ordered the following Smoked Baby Pigeon with Soy Sauce instead! So cheap cost only 32 Yuan!

We also ordered the following Braised Pork!

Our Smoked Baby Pigeon with Soy Sauce - it was served whole & even with its head :

The Pigeon, though tiny, was very well prepared - its flavour is slightly like soy sauce stewed Duck but it’s got its own pigeon taste which was really yummy & tasty!!

Both Dear & I loved the Pigeon alot we finished the whole baby (poor baby) within minutes, leaving behind just its poor tiny little head on the Lettuce! It was really delicious!!

Next came our huge plate of Braised Pork, served with their half bare bones, & with Fried Squarish Buns & some kind of milky flavoured Sauce for dipping :

The Pork was slightly crispy on the outside but tender inside - they were really marinated well cos they tasted really nice!

And the Fried Buns were also very very nice - the best Fried Buns we’d ever eaten!!

And eating the Pork with the Buns together were simply a great joy!!  

Dear was so happy & smiling all the way when tucking into the sticks of Pork!!

Then we had the following double-colored Steamed Dumplings (or Stuffed Buns in “Duyichu” style) :

The Dumplings were served steaming hot & they were really huge!!

They looked so beautiful like blooming Flowers I couldn’t really bear to eat or even touch them haha!!

They were stuffed with minced Pork & Prawns, besides other ingredients, & they were really juicy, fresh & so so yummy!!

Dear & I had never eaten anything so beautiful & so delicious like these Dumplings & I can even remember its great taste as though it’s still lingering in my mouth right now!!

Haha greedy greedy Me picking up the colorful Dumpling & holding the Pork stick at the same time - they both look pretty big ha!! YES actually they were!! And they were very very GOOD!!

YUMMY YUMMY Cuisines!!!!

As there was this below Chinese Rice Dumpling Advertisement lying on our dining table, Dear & I decided to order 2 Rice Dumplings for sampling. Besides, the Dumpling Festival (or “Duan Wu Jie” in Chinese) was fast approaching then, & I’d also wanted to see how the China Rice Dumplings taste like heehee!!

Here come our 2 Rice Dumplings - stuffed in Red Beans Paste, & Pork. They look kinda big here but actually they were much smaller than the normal sized dumplings we normally eat in Singapore.

Dear & I enjoying ourselves feasting on the food, with an extra huge bottle of Sprite to go with our Cuisines!! Haha no wonder both of us are so fat!!

Some of the leftover Bones from the Pork!! Dear & I managed to finish all the 9 huge Pork sticks, the 10 Fried Bun, as well as all the 10 big Steamed Dumplings!! My gracious goodness lord!! We actually could eat these much!!! And cos they were just so delicious we both couldn’t bear to leave any single piece to waste!! Hahahah!!

But well, cos Dear & I were both already so so full, we could not imagine eating more - not to mention any Rice Dumpling - that would be terrible!! So we had our 2 Dumplings packed & taken away with us :

Dear & I really had the most wonderful meal in Beijing!! We both enjoyed the great food tremendously & they only cost us a total of 156 Yuans, which is equivalent to about 31 Singapore dollars!! Unbelievable!! That was really so cheap, considering that the food was really fantastic, the Restaurant was so nice with beautiful atmosphere, & the services from the waitresses so prompt & good too!! What’s more - it’s a famous State Restaurant!!

About to leave the ”Duyichu” (or “The Single Place”) Restaurant now :

The Dumpling Festival (or “Duan Wu Jie” in Chinese) - Rice Dumplings advertisements :

Dear stepping out of “Duyichu” (or “The Single Place”) Restaurant :

Haha Dear again touching his tummy & showing “his so full so full” expression outside the Restaurant - he always does that after heavy yummy yummy meals haha!!

Dear & I later took a Taxi back to Changfeng Hotel.

The following Slideshow contains the rest of the photos taken inside the “Duyichu” Restaurant, as well as our Taxi ride back to the Hotel :

Dear & I soon came back to our Room in Changfeng Hotel, seeing our 2 precious Babies Smartie & Sparkie cuddled close together on the bed :

What a great last night in Beijing!! Dear & I had so much fun exploring the Streets of Beijing, people watching the locals going about their daily lives eating & shopping & doing groceries together after knocking off work! And we had so much fun shopping too, if only we had more time to visit more Shopping Malls haha!!

Well, Dear & I packed our luggages a little, putting in all our newly purchased items from our earlier shopping, & continued to chit chat while watching the Plasma TV programmes, till the early wee hours of dawn lying in this Room, before we dozed off!!

Haha, we could only sleep for a mere 2 to 3 hours cos we had to check out of Changfeng Hotel by 4.30am the next morning to catch our 7.45am flight to Hong Kong!! Good night Beijing!!