Beijing Dining

Welcome to Beijing, where you have to call for a waiter in a nice restaurant (they don't check up on you) and the dishes are shrink-wrapped so you know they're clean.

On the plus side, it seems that the majority of establishments that have menus, have menus with pictures. So that's helpful (for all us non-Chinese-reading people out there).

Also, bendy straws. The cafe/bakery down the street has them. And they're super-bendy.