Old Bejing home occasion dishes

I don't know what the name of this place was, but the specials board caught my eye as I was walking randomly around Beijing. The sign at the top says laobeijingjiachangcai, which I vaguely interpret using my declining chinese reading skills, as saying "old beijing home occasion dishes."

Here's a close up of the store front menu, where there was a special on crab for Friday.

The service was nice enough, and there weren't many people there.

The szechuan peppercorn bean dish was not the nicest I had tasted.

The fried crabs with spicy salt were okay, but nothing really special. They'd be a nice bar food I guess, with some beer to wash them down.

Unfortunately, I didn't photograph the receipt for this place.

Foggy weather

On one of the few days with seasonable winter weather, there was heavy fog that lasted over night.  It's quite nice to go running in, when I go in the morning.  Although when I do, it makes me think of the roving pack of wild dogs Liza had in her neighbourhood in Atlanta.  At least we only had double shootings and muggings at knife-point in mine.

Heavy fog out the gate.

Elephant garlic

Have I eaten elephant garlic? Yes. Do I remember what it tastes like? No idea. I think that I remember it as being pretty tasteless, and I wouldn't bother to have planted any, except I was given a packet.

Packet front.

Packet back.

It's in the ground beside my normal garlic, and took maybe two minutes to plant.

Planted.

I can always give it away.