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Wangfujing Snack Street

Sunday, 13 January 2008, 10:32 | Category : Chinese life

It’s time for another trip to Wangfujing to visit the foreign-language bookstores! I’ve read everything in the house at least twice (Except for Scarlett, because seriously, once was more than enough.) and needed to restock, and Stick was looking for a German-English dictionary because he’s decided to learn German instead of Chinese.

On our way to the bookstores, we wandered down the Wangfujing snack street, a food-only nightmarket mix of delicious and nausating food on skewers. Candied strawberries, squid bits, chicken kebabs (heads, feet and all), the smells of frying noodles and roasting meats and fermented tofu.

The row of stands is pretty busy, and vendors try to outshout each other. Some of them use English to get our attention. Hello, chicken, ok! Hello, baozi, ok! Hello, food, yes? Hello, ok, strawberry! Ok? Hello! You look! Ok? I’m starting to wonder if there’s anything that can’t be expressed with Hello and OK when one fellow calls out:

“Hello, I love you!”

Edit: It turns out that the Wangfujing Playboy said that same thing to Beijing blogger Penglisha the same weekend. So much for fidelity!

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8 Comments for “Wangfujing Snack Street”

  1. 1Peter

    wrote on 14 January 2008 at 11:44

    Hopefully that someone was Stick?

  2. 2Anonymous

    wrote on 14 January 2008 at 15:05

    Only Laowai would tell each other ‘I love you’(Too exposed), Chinese would not. They would sit together and share silence like time doesn’t exist.

    You and Stick should try that.

  3. 3Meg

    wrote on 14 January 2008 at 17:05

    It wasn’t Stick, it was a random guy with strawberries on a skewer!

  4. 4Anonymous

    wrote on 14 January 2008 at 18:33

    You are a outlaw of the laundry hanging balcony!

  5. 5Elliott Ng

    wrote on 15 January 2008 at 5:35

    Hello, I love the British, ok?

  6. 6blackwhirlwind Li Kui

    wrote on 15 January 2008 at 15:07

    I love every body, include the teasing part!-)

  7. 7Meg

    wrote on 19 January 2008 at 12:10

    I’m completely heartbroken that he was shoutingthe L-word to Penglisha the same weekend!

  8. 8Anonymous

    wrote on 19 January 2008 at 12:56

    Everyone loves a Western girl!

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