Across town, a local family have invited us to spend New Year's Eve with them 城市的另一头有户本地家庭邀请我们共渡除夕夜 and they've already started their preparations. 他们已经开始准备了 Like most people in Beijingers,...
Back in Beijing, we are in one of the oldest parts of the city, the Bell Tower. 让我们回到北京，这里是北京城里历史最为悠久的地方之一，钟楼 It has been on this site since 1420, that's nearly 600 years old. 这座钟楼从1...
Luckily, to help make sense of the bewildering numbers and lights, 幸运如斯，为求亲身感受缭乱的数字和灯光 I have got some help from a seasoned bidder. 有位经验丰富的竞买人施我予援手 This is Mr Xiang. Mr Xiang, hello....
I'm used to agricultural auctions 我以前也去过农货拍卖会 but this is quite unlike anything I have ever seen before. 但这是我完全没见过的 This is an absolutely fascinating process. 拍卖过程妙不可言 I do not think I have ev...
Once the roses are cut, 花枝一旦被剪下来 they come in here to be sorted and that is what I'm doing. 它们将被运送到这儿分捡，我现在就在分捡 Basically, they are sorted by stem length, 基本上，它们是按花茎的长度分捡...
Another popular market and the new New Year is Beijing's flower market. 新年里另一个火爆的市场就是北京的花市了 The Chinese love to buy blooms during the Spring Festival to decorate their homes. 中国人喜欢在春节买盛开的花...
Well, it was a bit of a mission, but we finally tracked down 好嘞，小任务而已，我们功成身退 and bought everything on the list. 单上的原料我们都买到了 And once we find Sue's restaurant we can get cooking. 一旦我们回到苏的...
Sue's given us a list of hot pot ingredients to find in the market, lotus root, mushrooms and beef. 苏给了我们一张火锅料单到市场入货，莲藕，蘑菇还有牛肉 There are no stalls. 这都没摊位 The trucks rock up, they sell thei...
If there is one place that is the very soul of Beijing's food culture, this must be it. 如果有一个地方是北京饮食文化的灵魂，那一定就是这里 Imagine if all the fresh food consumed by a city was all put together in one place. 试想...
This is what Chinese New Year is all about, loads of eating, 这就是中国新年的全部，吃吃吃 preferably surrounded by your nearest and dearest. 与你最亲近和亲爱的人团聚 And the numbers are pretty impressive, too. 数量也令人相...
