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...furnishings. Ancient Buddhist paintings, hunting trophies and antique Dutch chests are scattered everywhere. Silk flowers and Christmas baubles hang from the ceiling, and the dining rooms are set with seven-branched candelabras. Guest rooms are appointed in similarly playful style, right down to the magazine covers used to plaster bathroom walls...
...traditional residential alleys latticing China's capital in a dense network. As she finished, the room of visiting Westerners chorused approval, and our guide asked if there were any questions. Naturally, there was only one. Where, our group wondered, did the typical hutong resident go to the bathroom? "In the latrine," said the lady of the house. "Outside." As we contemplated what this must mean in the depths of a northern Chinese winter, life in the hutongs suddenly seemed far less folksy and cute...
...creature comforts en route, you just have to hope for the best. Our hostess's poker face relaxed when, on departure, I confessed that I had to answer an urgent call of nature. She'd actually installed plumbing in the house, she admitted, discreetly directing me to an indoor bathroom that had been there all along. I was astonished. What was all that about the rough and ready existence of the hutongs, where daily life had barely changed in centuries? She shrugged and replied, quite unapologetically, "Would you want tour groups using your toilet every...
...traditional residential alleys latticing China's capital in a dense network. As she finished, the room of visiting Westerners chorused approval, and our guide asked if there were any questions. Naturally, there was only one. Where, our group wondered, did the typical hutong resident go to the bathroom? "In the latrine," said the lady of the house. "Outside." As we contemplated what this must mean in the depths of a northern Chinese winter, life in the hutongs suddenly seemed far less folksy and cute. We'd been delivered to this typical hutong home by Beijing Hutong Tour...
...dancing around and my feet were slipping around, so I walk off the dance floor and my feet were covered in blood. And I was like “That’s bad. I can’t feel anything.” So I went to the bathroom to clean it up, and one of my teammates was in there and she was like, “Oh my God! You need to go to the hospital and get stitches right now.” And I was like...