It's the season to be jolly!

Beijing is the perfect place and season for me now.

Sweet persimmon in my hand

It's the season for PERSIMMONS 柿子!!

The Chinese persimmons don't look like the normal round ones that we get in Australia, etc, but they taste just as nice. I prefer & love crunchy persimmons. Because biting into soft ones are just so..... weird & 'ge-li'!

However in China, people consider that as 'pre-mature'. They eat only the 'slimmy' & "goo-ey" ones. I thought I wouldn't like it that way but....... I do!! Surprisingly! It's so soft (& watery) that it's like 'drinking' persimmon juice! SwEeEeeeeettt... Someone, pls hand me a straw!

Hmmmmm.....

I got very excited when we traveled from Beijing to Cheng De by bus. I jumped out from my seat (and no longer feeling sleepy) and stuck myself to the window at the sight of thousands of golden permissons 'dumped' on the ground (like 小山丘!) at the roadside for sale!! Each time we past by piles and piles of persimmons, pears, apples, Shan Cha, red dates and wild nuts, i got more and more excited! How i wanted to get out of the car to buy them all!! Or better, just swim in sea of persimmons & eat them at the same time! ;p


Bus was moving too fast, so I didn't manage to take a pic of the incredible sight! :( It's captured in my mind though (^.^) Unfortunately, you can't look into my brain hehe... The image is still fresh in my mind & it makes me want to move to Beijing this instant!!! ^^

Small stalls operated by farmers at the roadside

Dried berries aren't bad either!! It's called 野姑娘

"Twinkle, Twinkle Little Persimmons"

Just look at my messy hair, puffy eyes and face!! Isn't it easy to tell that I just arrived in Beijing?? hahaha... I didn't sleep on the place at all because I was OVER-EXCITED! (; Didn't really wanna show you this pic. Hesitated so long but hehe, nvm. You know I usually look better than this ^^