What doesn't kill you...

While living in Beijing is like having a cup of tea in a kitchen with a gas leak (you're sort of suffocating on your soot-colored boogers), I find this city very beautiful . If you follow the API twitter or weibo (http://twitter.com/#!/beijingair), you see that the API index usually hovers over 400 during the day. Just to give some comparison, traffic-clogged Los Angeles after a forest fire is below 400.

Still, sunset with the surge of smog and the traffic that causes it is one of my favorite times of day in Beijing.

By the way, Asian glow is a foreign concept here. Not surprised, look below for a sample of Beijing drinks.