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I met up with a subscriber from my YouTube channel that wanted to collaborate in Beijing. I live in Qinhuangdao, which is about 2 hours away from Beijing by high-speed rail.

I really love the alleyways in Beijing. Most of them have been destroyed due to urbanization, but some of them have been preserved to keep us in contact with Beijing's history.

These alleyways are known as Hutongs in Chinese. They are traditional style alleyways that people still live in. It is how the people of Beijing lived for hundreds of years and I really like walking through them. I have another post dedicated to these hutongs!

Pizza Dinner

As we were walking through the hutongs, we spotted an incredible pizza restaurant that serves authentic pizza! The one thing you need to know about Chinese pizza is that it is quite different to what you would be used to in the USA. The toppings are really different. You can find pizza with corn, squid, dragonfruit, etc. and the pizza isn't as cheesy as in the West.

I haven't had pizza in years and I am so glad I found this place.

I fell in love with this place. I have to go back there when I return to Beijing.

Shisha

We continued walking around the hutong until it got dark. This is when we decided to kick back and smoke some shisha. I am of Middle Eastern decent, so I grew up around people that smoked shisha. I personally never really smoked it so this was my first time smoking it for a lengthy period of time. Previous times, I just smoked 1 or 2 puffs and that was it.

It was a really enjoyable experience. We relaxed with some shisha and just started chatting the whole time. I think Andrew and I got a long really well. I will probably meet up with him in the future. He's a cool guy originally from North Carolina.

The whole area got quite dark but I usually feel really safe in China. There were barely any lights in some areas but we felt at ease. We didn't fear getting robbed or assaulted.