BIG THANK YOU to all who responded.

We're in BGS Lounge now, waiting for board.

This evening we arrived from JFK at 6PM as scheduled. We were met at the Airport by a driver who took us to one of the QUANDUJE's restaurants. I had originally asked for the restaurants that were suggested here, but my friend who was recently in Beijing somehow changed the location and he wrote it down in Chinese for me. Little did I know, the Quanduje's rest he wanted us to go is actually in town, about 5 minutes of so from Tiananmen Square (which is not that far from our original plan, MADE IN CHINA at The Grand Hyatt)

The problem with this restaurant is that it's in pedestrian only street. The driver was not 100% familiar with it, so he parked the car 15 minutes from the restaurant, so we had to walk in the cold for a bit (We are going to Bali, so we left our coats back home, not thinking we would ever need to be outside a lot in Beijing).

Anyhow, after a brisk walk, we got to the restaurant, got seated in very informal cafe style (benches around a table) with a menu that says FAST FOOD DUCK for RMB90. I then said that it was a wrong restaurant and I wanted to go to the real duck restaurant where they serve the whole duck.

We were then taken to the back building, where the 'real' restaurant that my friend suggested is located.

By then, it was 750PM, we got seated (there were few people waiting, but our driver somehow got us a table right away after pulling the "they just came all the way from NYC and need to eat duck before flying again"

The duck was in one word, DIVINE, and almost worth all the trouble (including obtaining a Chinese visa).

We were back at the airport by 9:30PM.

It's one of those little adventures we would not forget.