$25 for Peking Duck?!?! We didn't even pay that much. There are plenty of super restaurants in Beijing, but you need a local to help you find them. My buddy and I just hired an English-speaking student we found on China Daily. She had her state tour guide cert., so we even got discounts on museum admission fees with her. She took us to some great restaurants, foot massage places, a visit to her home to meet her family and then arranged for her uncle to drive us to the Great Wall at Mutianyu one day and then back to the airport. Below is the meal we had on the way back from Mutianyu. We stumblmed upon this hole in the wall a good hour or so outisde of Beijing. It was one of the best meals I've ever had, ran $13 total for the three of us and we couldn't come close to finishing it. God, it was so good.
