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So this area is the most touristy area of Beijing in my opinion. It just one giant shopping center with a shit load of shops. It has a very nice layout and good atmosphere.

Outside the shopper center however, there are many small shops. Such as this one. When I was leaving the shop owner asked me “Is this not good enough for your needs?!” hahahahahha

These smoke stands are awesome. Buy any type of ciggerates you want, zig zags, cigars, etc. If you look close enough they sell these novelty super oversized lighters. I’ll probably bring one back for fun. Oh yea and don’t worry guys, for those of you who know me, I’ve still never smoked a ciggerate in my life.

Name of some place, they had hookahs everywhere.

This is what inside Sanutun Soho looks like.

Puma store!

This is the center, there was some giant advertisement there. Also during winter you can iceskate there. That seems pretty nice.

This is their apple store. There was an insane amount of people just playing with the new Iphone 4. Thought I’d like to take a picture.

So after exploring there we went to this building. I forgot what it’s called.

Anyways in this building, it’s like the tourist market place of Beijing. People are constantly trying to speak crappy english and sell you stuff for x10 the price. Dumb tourist and foreigners fall for that stuff.

But then again, if I saw this, I probably would fall for the trap as well.

Yea so you get an idea of what this place looks like. Full of tourist and foreigners.

So after leaving that place, I decided to eat some stinky tofu. It wasn’t as good as everyone makes it out to be. Seriously. Also makes your shit stink on another level.

Then we walked through the foreign clubbing district, also forgot the name. I think Cargo was one of the most expensive clubs so I took a picture of it.

Next to this place was the worlds biggest bowling alley? I’m not sure if thats true but it seemed like it. I mean just look at how many lanes there are. Holy shit. there’s 5o full lanes.

Some wussy goofy wannabe haha. Just took a picture cause everybody probably takes a picture with this sculpture at this bowling alley.

It’s rare that you see a giant TV in a picture frame, but here it is. hahaha just thought some of you would appreciate this.

We visited some huge ass pool hall.

Huge. Mad smokey.

Another club or something.

Passed by this place. I think its the best electronic market? Not really sure, I’ll have some pictures in it eventually.

Alright so next we went through this freaking awesome tourist side street that went on forever called Nan Luo Gu Xiang. It has an insane amount of beautiful bars, small shops, cafes, food booths, etc. It what every tourist imagines Beijing to be like in my opinion. I didn’t get an actual picture of just the street itself and kind’ve regret it. But it was dark and very small and somewhat crowded. The street itself has other small alley ways which would lead to more bars, shops, etc. The whole street is really long. I think Andre and I spent atleast 2 hours in that area.

This place sold a bunch of hand made stuff. You know those chinese movies where they have like paper characters and they move them around and stuff? Well this is one of them. You can see the instructions on it.

Another store had some random pins. lol @ the random CS ones

kewl store door.

I don’t even know why I took a picture of this

This is what the small random bars looked like. This picture doesn’t do them justice. They had a really good atmosphere

OLDSCHOOL CHINESE YOGURT

ahahahah so now its time for some more fun pictures to look at.

Can you guys guess what these are? Well if you guessed meat, your partially correct

Eating scorpions is bomb. It was actually really tasty, I aint lying to you.

In this street they had a lot of fun flashing lights and projectors. This projector was filming some little chinese kid movie.

They happen to have tons of head shops around in Beijing.

Fun plushie shop.

Surprisingly I didn’t take as many pictures as I thought I did, but I’ll definitely go back one day during the day when everything is open and take tons of pictures for those of you who haven’t been to Beijing!

For the hipsters out there, yea they got fixed gears here. It’s usually the korean messenger boys riding them. They got some pretty goddamn fresh bikes, I saw two other guys with them as well but I didn’t wanna be weird and take a picture of them. In Toronto, I don’t think anyone would be stupid enough to lock their fixie with a chain lock ahhaha.

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