As some of you know, I spent the first two weeks of July in China. It was a fairly relaxed trip with lots of shopping, a fair bit of sightseeing and a rather large amount of food consumption. The original plan was to spend the first week in Harbin (visiting family) and the second in Beijing (as tourists), but plans changed when both my boyfriend and I both got food poisoning (on the day of our flight to Beijing) from, presumably eating a badly cooked duck at the hotel we stayed at. So plans changed and we had to delay…