Julio’s Musings Around Columbia County, New York

Here I am at the world famous or at least Beijing famous Peking Duck restaurant. This duck gave its all to the assembled team. We ate the Duck’s feet (tasted like rubber even with the spicy mustard), the bones used to blend a delicious soup and of course the meat that you see the chef carving next to me.

Word of advise, Chinese food in China is nothing like the bland variety we get back home in the states. I knew that already of course but it was even more obvious during my recent business stint in Beijing. It is not for the faint of heart who think wonton soup ,egg-rolls and fried rice represent the best Chinese cuisine has to offer.

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Tags: China, Beijing, Peking Duck, Julio Hernandez-Miyares

Looking back over many steps just climbed on China’s Great Wall. Though I am here in China on business, it was Sunday and what better way to spend it then walking and gasping along the Great Wall about 50 kilometers outside of Beijing.

Must admit, these tourists (about 99% Chinese) were in very good shape. Except for landings every 500 0r 1000 feet, it is in incline (or decline depending on direction) the entire way through the hills.

Though Beijing is chock full of cars and the attendant smog and traffic jams, the population at least up to now appears from my empirical observations to not be suffering from the obesity epidemic prevalent back home in the States.

Lets see what the relentless modernization brings in the future.

Tags: Great Wall, China

Just arrived in Beijing , China for an intense week of work around setting up a new publishing development group. One comment, if Beijing is representative of what the rest of China is experiencing , watch out! This place is booming, full of optimism , young people working hard and so on. Of course I am not naive, there are problems, widening gulf between haves/have nots, normal traffic that parallels New York City on its worse gridlock alert days, pollution and sundry political issues I won’t go into.

Nevertheless., while we are distracted with spending our resources on useless and endless wars, there are countries that are truly embracing for and grabbing the future.

Tags: China, Beijing