stupid beijing....

I come to China for two reasons:
1) Family
2) Food... make that, GOOD food.

Beijing:
Family - cousins are too busy to hang out with me, and my aunt can't keep with me.  altho hanging out with them for a couple of hrs once a week is fun, what about the rest of the 99 awake hours in the week????

Food... I just feel like repeating myself again.
Food here sucks beyond belief.  You would think a city of this caliber (in size, not anything else), a city that used to house the EMPEROR, would have the best of the best food.  ... but no, its the other way around. 
In the one month that I have been in the god-forsaken city, i have only had TWO good meals out ... and we eat out quite a bit.  TWO!!!  First was the 干炒锅 from a food court in a ghetto mall, and the second were the lamb skewers at the XinJiang Muslim restaurant.  TWO!!!   The rest of the meals ranged from plain ok, to mediocre, to bad, to "omfg i can't believe i paid money to eat this!!!!"....

Case and point: Today's lunch.
Went to a chain restaurant (how it became a chain, one will never know....).  they're supposed to be famous for their 红烧肉 (pork + soya sauce).  So i ordered that, plus a taro bubble tea. 
What i ended up getting a dish made up of completely tasteless chunks of pork FAT with a little bit of oily and bland gravy, and some very very bland vegetables that weren't cooked all the way through.  what a disappointment!!!  never ever go to any restaurant that begins with 田老师!!!!!  cuz he's obviously one incompetent teacher!
and my bubble tea?  first, i had to wait 5 minutes for it (my meal came in oh, 20seconds).  When it finally came, there were no bubbles visible!  so i asked, and the waitress said "there are bubbles.  there are three bubbles" .... WTF!!  who the hell serves THREE bubbles when they serve bubble tea?!! 
the the best part about the meal?  the bubble tea was hot.  not warm, but hot.  like, made with freshly boiled water at a scalding 100 degrees celcius.  ok, maybe 98 by the time it got to me.  All this when it was oh, about 38 degrees celcius outside.

FUN!