Down the hutong

One of my favorite parts of Beijing was after taking a jaunt down a street packed with crafts and art, we took a random turn and headed back toward our hotel down an alleyway. Out on the main streets of Beijing it's a modern city and you may as well be in Chicago, but take a turn down one of these "hutongs" or alleyways and things haven't changed for 100 years. A different slice of the city and much more quaint.