{"id":2409,"date":"2012-11-07T06:57:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T13:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2012-11-07T06:57:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T13:57:45","slug":"qingdao-for-some-tsingtao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=2409","title":{"rendered":"Qingdao for some Tsingtao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were excited to take one of China&#8217;s high speed trains and thought a trip to the coastal city of Qingdao would make a good stop for a few days.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photos.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/albums\/311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"On the train\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/photos\/8748\/medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is what 300k\/hr looks like on the train.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We needed a bit of sea air after the pollution in Beijing. \u00c2\u00a0And what better for that then the beer capital of China and a crazy hotel to make us feel better!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photos.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/albums\/311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hotel in Qing Dao\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/photos\/8750\/medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who designed this room?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Hauke Hotel was a real\u00c2\u00a0surprise. \u00c2\u00a0The decor was very unique, with a jungle theme in the lobby and a western\/asian\/ european mix in the bedroom, it was a bit out of the ordinary. \u00c2\u00a0But the bed was\u00c2\u00a0comfortable\u00c2\u00a0and the breakfast buffet was\u00c2\u00a0plentiful, so we had no complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Qingdao is also the home of China&#8217;s most well known beer, Tsing tao. \u00c2\u00a0Interestingly both the city and beer are pronounced the same &#8212; Ching-dao. \u00c2\u00a0We were also interested to find out that the city was part of the Imperial German Concession\u00c2\u00a0until the first World War and they are the ones who introduced beer to China. \u00c2\u00a0We took a tour of the factory and got to sample both the\u00c2\u00a0unfiltered\u00c2\u00a0and filtered beer.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photos.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/albums\/311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tsing Tao Tasting\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/photos\/8760\/medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The best part of the tour was the less than perfect English translations on signs throughout the tour.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Germans also left a few historic buildings around the city, which made for an intersting day of wondering around.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photos.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/albums\/311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Clock Tower in Qing Dao\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/photos\/8755\/medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the Christian church built by the Germans. It survived the Cultural Revolution only because no one knew it was a church as they all just referred to it as &#8220;The Clock Tower&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were excited to take one of China&#8217;s high speed trains and thought a trip to the coastal city of Qingdao would make a good stop for a few days. We needed a bit of sea air after the pollution in Beijing. \u00c2\u00a0And what better for that then the beer capital of China and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[5,114],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","tag-beer","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}