Eric's Beijing Diary

Sitting here in the "Cava" coffee bar. The Reading Cafe is right down the street, but it closes at midnight, and it's after 11:30. This place is open 'till 2 am.

This morning I met a Brit at the hotel in Langfang. He is in the import-export business, and is in town for an expedition. I said, "Where are you from?" He said, "Surrey, south of London, but me folks are from East Anglia." He is running his business out of Gansu province in the Northwest, which seems like an odd location for an import-export business. I was glad he could join me for breakfast, because I thought perhaps he would be able to tell me what to do with the raw egg. No such luck.