Friday 13 July
Woke up fully clothed and headed to Lido Hotel for a simple lunch with Xiao Ling. Got some info on the 2008 Olympics tickets and hapened upon some great blue and yellow faux-snakeskin sneakers! Bought them for RMB150 to find out they are also limited edition UNKLE kicks - nice :)
Met Mogan and Benedictus at a cafe in the arts district for a Qingdao then headed over to Song Yang's studio where all the artists were hard at work creating some fantastic pieces. Helped interview a 60 year-old cougar in Mandarin, found out he worked for the Chengde Railroad Company issuing tools, and was enjoying watch Li Qiu Qiu bomb "bie fei hua"! Had a warm beer in the afternoon sun then headed back to change up for dinner.
Met the China team at Lapopo for dinner, sat next to Edmond and enjoyed some fantastic Sichuan food over the big round table mafioso vibe. After dinner they exploded into the market visit (leaving me behind!) and I caught up with them at Eudora Station, then walked the entire stretch up, across and down Sanlitun, in and out of Vic's and Mix without stop! At Houhai we sat down beside the lotus flowers and stopped to actually enjoy a few Tiger Crystals and get some insights into the market.
Proceeded on past Houhai Tian Tang and the chunky electro beats had real Beijingers dancing- I wanted to stay! As we said goodbye to the bosses, Vincent appeared out of nowhere like Batman all geared up to party - I reluctantly stuck with plan A, returned back to the hutong around midnight, had a few quiets in the courtyard and got to sleep around 3am.
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