Hi Alex, great to see your blog. What's Bou Zi? My new office-mate's family lives near Beijing - she says is it a steamed bun with a filling? Looking forward to your next post. Fx

This blog is so exciting and it sounds as if you are having a marvellous, if not exhilarating time. Please continue to have fun and write; your parallel with Beijing and Boris was stupendous. :D x