The classic Xiaolongbao, a ground pork dumpling with a rich broth inside. Normally to eat soup dumplings, people nip the crown (top) off, and drink the soup. After, you ate the dumpling itself, otherwise you'd burn your tongue off from the hot soup in the dumpling. This was great, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

A very needed cup of hot chocolate after the climb on the Great Wall.

One of the popular teas offered in many shops is a flowering tea, which starts off as a closed round ball, and opens up once in water, as this one did.

There are animals on the corners of the roofs on each building.

The structure in the back is the temple where the Dragon Lady prayed when in refuge.

The Monument to the People's Heroes which stands in the middle of Tiananmen.