Originally on Monday I just wanted to buy a book in the Xinhua Bookstore (huge!) and look for a repair shop for an old watch. I ended up exploring once more the crowds, the small alleys with an amazing diversity of Chinese trinkets and also the food street. Ended up buying some, including a Chinese version of Manneken Pis.
The food offered is very “local”. There is a choice of sea urchins, shrimps, centipedes, scorpions (small and large ones), silk work cocoons, big spiders; intestines, stomach, stinking tofu, chicken kidneys, Peking Duck; leg of lamb, lamb kidneys, penis & testicles; fruit and other stuff I forgot.

Some of the small scorpions on the sticks were still alive! This time I went for the lamb and chicken kidneys, sea urchin, bread stuffed with minced lamb meat.
Most people were Chinese, relatively few tourists. The Chinese were pretty happy to see me eating all the funny stuff, asking questions and taking pictures. So I also asked them to take my picture. A little girl (she was so cute) exchanged hello / nihao with me what prompted the parents to take a picture with me holding her hand. Sweet.
To be on the safe side, as preventive medicine, I headed to one of my favorite hangouts in Sanlitun for a treatment of Vedett (bottle), Maredsous (on tap) and Canadian Ale. All excuses are good for a beer.