Hotpot dinner in Beijing and all the fun memories
The hotpot dinner is a hit, has been a hit, and it will always be a hit!
Upon request, I arranged a dinner outing with the entire Beijing office when Jon brought his new PMs, Diya and Nick, to Beijing for their first trip. We went to 海底捞火锅, a popular hotpot place. As always, it never disappointed us. We clearly had too much beer and people were happily drinking, toasting and somehow a spice eating competition was set...
Diya sent out the following post the dinner which got hundreds of emails tying to figure out what really happened...
Here are some of the comments that I promised to post on my blog, enjoy...And I am not going to disclose who said those other than that they are all FreeWheelers!
1) is for sure true, Nick is a maniac and was in a fraternity. Anyone who is willing to drink Mad Dog 20/20 that has sat in the sun for 2 months will consume just about anything.
3) is most likely true as Jon is a fellow Jew and the closest we normally come to spice is horseradish or Jackie Mason. Also, being from Rhode Island the spiciest thing Jon probably had growing up was Geoduck.
I'm going to say that 2) is false (although Diane IS a party animal). Although Jon would probably be checking his BBerry while chugging I think he still might win if the situation came up. He loves beer and again - eastern seaboard upbringing.
I say Nick eating disgusting animal body parts and Diya ingesting higher explosive substances are far more likely than Diane and Jon holding a drinking contest (but if they did, remember that Diane is a human super power and could easily outdo Jon in a heartbeat).
Did any of the above actually happen?
One thing for sure happened and here is the proof:
We went to 麻里麻里香锅 Friday night for the spicy contest. The premium spice there really got a kick to everybody. Diya and Jon went off for a really competition with Nick sweating and feeling his head exploded on the side. You will have to watch Nick's movie clips to figure out what happened.
All I know is Jon gave up in front of a pepper like this:
Upon request, I arranged a dinner outing with the entire Beijing office when Jon brought his new PMs, Diya and Nick, to Beijing for their first trip. We went to 海底捞火锅, a popular hotpot place. As always, it never disappointed us. We clearly had too much beer and people were happily drinking, toasting and somehow a spice eating competition was set...
Diya sent out the following post the dinner which got hundreds of emails tying to figure out what really happened...
…. Can you guess which one of the following is false:
1) Nick ate pig brains, duck blood and snake
Did Nick eat it? Check out the photo on his facebook profile and draw you own conclusions!
2) Jon lost a beer chugging contest to Diane who weights 11lbs.
There is no need to record as the entire world watched it with Jon saying:"But she weighs 11lbs, how is this fair?..." 
3) Jon lost a spice eating contest to Diya
Here are some of the comments that I promised to post on my blog, enjoy...And I am not going to disclose who said those other than that they are all FreeWheelers!
1) is for sure true, Nick is a maniac and was in a fraternity. Anyone who is willing to drink Mad Dog 20/20 that has sat in the sun for 2 months will consume just about anything.
3) is most likely true as Jon is a fellow Jew and the closest we normally come to spice is horseradish or Jackie Mason. Also, being from Rhode Island the spiciest thing Jon probably had growing up was Geoduck.
I'm going to say that 2) is false (although Diane IS a party animal). Although Jon would probably be checking his BBerry while chugging I think he still might win if the situation came up. He loves beer and again - eastern seaboard upbringing.
I say Nick eating disgusting animal body parts and Diya ingesting higher explosive substances are far more likely than Diane and Jon holding a drinking contest (but if they did, remember that Diane is a human super power and could easily outdo Jon in a heartbeat).
I think they're all false. You clearly had some fermented narcotic berries and the whole episode never happened.
...Did any of the above actually happen?
One thing for sure happened and here is the proof:
We went to 麻里麻里香锅 Friday night for the spicy contest. The premium spice there really got a kick to everybody. Diya and Jon went off for a really competition with Nick sweating and feeling his head exploded on the side. You will have to watch Nick's movie clips to figure out what happened.
All I know is Jon gave up in front of a pepper like this:
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