Asia > China > Beijing (travel diary) Beijing duckie and Jens and noise
Today we did another of one of those things "you just have to do" in Beijing, to eat the famous dish of the Beijing duck. It tasted OK, like turkey. But it was the sauce that made it taste good. I prefer my grandmothers christmas turkey :)
More fun was what happened after dinner. We met a chinese guy, "Sam". He pointed us where to buy Jens (jian zi). We've seen Jens several times on our trip here in China. Jens is some sort of chinese "kicking"-toy. Actually it's a shuttlecock. You can play with it alone or together with other people. The game is about keeping Jens in the air by kicking it with your feet. It's some sort of feather ball. This toy is very usual here in China and it's not rare to see older men and women using it, and of course children plays with it.
I, Tobias and Sam started kicking this Jens between us at the Wang Fu Jing Da Jie (big shopping street in Beijing). Many people who walked by joined us. I think we were about eight people at one time... great fun!
Oh yes, we bought chinese musical instruments yesterday... and we almost got music from them. I don't yet know what the instruments is called but it's a mix between two blowfishies, a standard flute and two smaller pipes... (yes it's hard to describe it).
What's special about this instrument is that you can get many different tones by varying the speed of air blown into it. You can also get some interesting pitching sounds.We almost managed to play "Twinkle twinkle little star". There hans't been any public jam session yet but maybe it will come... maybe at the airport.
Kul att ni hittat ett instrument. Har det något namn?