Enough about Toilets

Lest I only point you toward the not-so-nice aspects of China:

pictures of The Summer Palace--one of my favorite places in Beijing
http://www.pbase.com/riverko/cn_beijing_summerpalace

Baozi! (food)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-05/21/content_332721.htm

and a poem:

雨后 After Rain
by Yue Fu

雨后树林润 After rain, the forest's sleek
松间月惊心 Between the pines, the moon startles my heart.
笑而思故园 I smile and think of home,
异客在异乡 A foreign guest in a foreign land.

More on the toilets...hehe

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/14/china.toilets.reut/index.html

"Beijing, eager to freshen up its primitive privies before it hosts the 2008 summer Olympics, recently added high-tech, self-cleaning toilets near tourist sites like the Forbidden City and Summer Palace and promised to keep them stocked with toilet paper.
Most of China's public lavatories are squat-style pits with no running water, toilet paper or hand-washing facilities."

good stuff.