365 China Photo: One-A-Day

After the experience of Qianmen Street yesterday we decided to avoid anywhere too crowded but wanted to go somewhere special for lunch. We decided on Ch’ien Men 23, which is an old Embassy compound area, which has been turned in one of Beijing’s finest dining zones. Unfortunately when we got their most of the restaurants were closed for the holiday or were not open until dinner time. We decided to leave and realised that is was just around the corner from Qianmen Street. The place was still crowded and I noticed they had big drums on display which members of the public were allowed to play. Well it was more just banging drums and making a noise than being musical but it did look fun. I reminded Canthy of her drum experience a week ago, but these ones were really loud. I fancied having a go but there were so many people and Canthy couldn’t bear to stay so we headed of to Sanlitun to eat which would was a lot more peaceful.