Life in Beijing: Beijing Pub Crawl

Now here is a real Expat sport for you . . . . . . . a pub crawl on a Chinese bicycle in Beijing. We have some good friends from the apartment building who were willing to partake in this sport (BF and I tried it a couple of weeks ago).
We started at Morel's our favorite Belgian bistro that serves an awesome Flemish beef stew (refer to Creatures of Habit blog entry http://jpmcchina.blogspot.com/2007/02/creatures-of-habit.html ). BF had her usual Belgian beer.............too sweet for me so I stick with the local draft Beijing beer which costs us less than $.50 for 630ml home delivery (which is 21.4 oz for the Americans). There actually is some city street biking involved which has a skill all of its own and the ladies seem to be the most aggressive and experienced at it (TF and Rob bringing up the rear). Pub # 2 was the Goose and Duck which is a favorite western Expat bar.
At the G&D we played a game of 501 which Rob our South African friend introduced us to. We played pretty even (horrible). Pub # 3 is Dirty Nellies Irish Pub. For some reason we never find this cool pub in the basement all that active. We did find in our first pub crawl (only BF and me) a pretty cool New Zealander who was visiting from Japan. We struck up a good conversation about skiing in Japan (we will see if we get together again for skiing in Japan next year).

Here is the sights from the Irish Ratskeller (I know that is a German term but not sure what the term is for a below street level tavern is). Since we did an above ground outside German beer garden next, I think I will use the term anyway.

Pub # 4 is Pauliner which is at the Kepinski Hotel. This is by far the most expensive brew house that we visit. Can't go back here at $32 a round for weis beer. Nice outside beer garden but not worth the hotel prices versus the other venues.