I don’t see why I should have to pay 35 RMB to basically sample someone’s commercial product. 6 USD for 250 ml of beer? That’s nearly baseball game prices, but at least there you can watch baseball. You know, watching teams of world-class players who get paid millions of dollars to compete to be the best at the sport. Maybe some kind of “brew-off” would’ve made it worth it, but instead we got Jam Band.

The best part of the festival for me was going to the nearby CVS and purchasing two Harbin tallboys for 11.5 RMB.

I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about Taco Bar, but I found their tacos to be pretty disappointing. The fish was fried nicely, but was bland and had no substance. Their salsa was more like a watery salad vinaigrette. The carnitas wasn’t bad, though … and they did give me a free t-shirt for taking a long time. (At least someone there understood that we were waiting in lines all day while paying hand-over-fist to be marketed to.)

I don’t think so many laowais have been fucked in Beijing since Maggie’s got the hotdog stand.