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[quote=GUEST41189,308537]I couldn't disagree more.  The Houhai area is one of many designated tourist spots built up with cookie cutter locations providing over priced services and touts whispering "lady bar... lady bar".  I recently went to a Hunan restaurant listed in Lonelyplanet at Houhai, and the food was so bad we didn't finish, and i mention this only because last week i downloaded healthybeijing.com's guide (a non-corporate micro guide to beijing's restaurants) for indigenous cuisine restaurants in beijing, and the hunan pick was half the price and truly phenomenal cuisine, prepared with all organic produce for a chinese and insider clientelle.  I also mention this guide because it has some performance venue's listed that are the real thing.  Last night we went to a Tibetan restaurant in the guide, and it had a second floor with a mandolin player and an old woman singing, all real tibetan, and the food, the food was imported from the tibetan plateu, and the meat was like nothing i've tasted in my life.  I thought colorado beef was good...  So much more comfortable than the ostentatious Chinese owned foreign geared restaurants that have "Sambo" like clowns dancing around with plastered smiles making everyone with any humanity uncomfortable, try to step off the tourist path if you want to see the real beijing...[/quote]

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