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72. Mongolian Hot Pot

Mon Nov 5, 2012, 03:42 PM

Nov 2012

at a restaurant in Beijing. Our Chinese friend knew the owner and he closed the restaurant because the health inspector was due the next day. We had the entire place to ourselves. Plenty of beer, lamb, cigarettes and mao tai.

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