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(At Wangfujing Street)
Stephy: Wangfujing is located in the Dongcheng District of Beijing. It’s an area increasingly considered the heart of the city because of its easy accessibility. Remember we got here by simple subway train ride on Line One. But perhaps for most foreigners, Wangfujing is best-known for its snack streets. There is a popular Chinese saying, “一样东西四条腿，只要不是桌子，就能吃！“If it has four legs and it’s not a table, you can eat it. And such is proven hoofing along this snack street. The rare occasion of gnawing away on a centipede attracts many adventurous eaters. But if consuming wiggling parts just aren’t part of your agenda, surely one of the many food stalls here will satisfy your bite. Eating here is a chance to learn some Chinese phrases to describe how food tastes as well as to order some traditional Chinese snacks.
Stephy: Kevin, hi, 你饿了吗？
Kevin: 有一点。
Stephy: 好，我们去小吃街吃吧。
Kevin: 好！
(At the entrance of Wangfujing Snack Street)
Stephy: Here on Beijing’s east side, 王府井小吃街 or snack street, allows eaters a chance to experience food from all over China – in smaller proportions. Many line the streets, cameras at ready, mouths hovering above Styrofoam, lids to catch the juices of 饺子or dumplings, or to feast on barbecued lamb skewers.
Donghuamen Night Market is located at the northern end of Wangfujing. Red lanterns dot the approximately 90 stalls that make up the night market. The atmosphere is alive with tourists, locals and vendors hawking their specialties, while most of the snacks, aren’t.
The trays are fair game as anything can be threaded kebab-style and then rolled in various spices and sauce. You can choose anything from beef to chicken to these dangling tentacles.
(Vendor fries two barbecued lamb skewers and gives them to Stephy.)
Stephy to vendor: 谢谢。
Stephy to Kevin: 来，来，来！
Stephy: 你觉得羊肉串儿好吃吗？
Kevin: 非常好吃。
GRAPHIC FLASH: 你觉得羊肉串儿好吃吗？你 you, 觉得think, 羊肉串儿barbecued lamb chunks, 好吃 delicious, 吗 a particle coming at the end of sentence indicating this is a question, 你觉得羊肉串儿好吃吗？Do you think the barbecued lamb chunks are delicious?