Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Goodbye Dubai—China here we come!

 We left Jumeriah Beach on Tuesday and headed to the Intercontinental next to the airport for an early morning flight the next morning  to Beijing .    A gorgeous hotel connected to Festival City mall with a Trader Vic’s restaurant.   If you haven’t been to one – find one and go!   Absolutely wonderful food, beverages and service.    We ordered some sushi with a Beef Cho Cho appetizer  to play with.   The Cho Cho is skewered thinly sliced beef marinated in a sweet Asian sauce that you sear over a flame at your table.   Any food you can play with and eat with your hands tastes so much better. .  
An afternoon watching Oceans 13 and relaxing in the room, before enjoying a light dinner of dim sum at the bar overlooking the Dubai Creek.  A cold dragon fruit mojito with assorted steamed dumplings and red bean cakes overlooking the carousels and Ferris wheels of Festival City as the wooden dhow boats float by.  It was a beautiful setting.
There is a Belgium Pub connected to their sister hotel and the bartender Brian gave us tastings from the tap.  Beer is like coconut to me……  I want to like it, keep trying to like it , but it never hits the taste buds quite right.   Brian  poured a taste of a Cherry Belgium beer for me  and  it was excellent- but too sweet.   Greg savored a  Leffe –blonde  that I tried and enjoyed  with the fruit aroma and then another sample of a  roasted hops / coffee brown beer that was good.    Still don’t love beer but I have to say I enjoyed the Belgium beer more than any other beer I have tried before.

The Intercontinental is gorgeous and has floating orchids and candles in vases in every pathway around the hotel,  a short stay and then we are are off to China in the morning and our Asian adventure.     
We have been practicing our Chinese words and keep getting excited to try all the street food there is to offer; grasshoppers, sea snake, silk worm larva , sea horses, scorpions….. and more!
Don’t worry animal lovers I will stay away from the dog and cat food stalls.


Stay tuned and Good Travel!

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