Originally Posted by
28kings28 
i went to beijing back in 2008 for a hockey trip and i had a really good time. But i hated the fact it was very polluted over there and i had trouble breathing, so if you have asthma it's going to suck. The majority of people were really nice and they give the best massages!
the chinese food sucked because it was obviously authentic chinese food (which is bland), so we decided to stick with the american places like mcdonalds and pizza hut in order to survive. It's funny because pizza hut was actually a fancy restaurant and not your typical delivery/carryout place. I remember one of the sides that you can order is octupus! My suggestion is try to stick with american restaurants because you will starve yourself to death if you just eat chinese food.
You can also take advantage of how cheap everything is and i remember buying two really nice suits for only $50!
Obviously, there are a lot of historical places to go to and the one i really liked the most was going to the great wall of china. You can take a chute down the freakin thing and it was pretty cool.
This is pretty much what i can remember so far, so if i remember anything else i'll let you know.
