Buffet breakfast at hotels

We stayed a night at Datong , more than 300 km away from Beijing city ; and 3 nights at one of the hotels along the Xidan area in Beijing city. We noticed that the hotel in Datong had a real good variety of  food for breakfast compared to the hotel in Beijing city .
Firstly, the main course variety in Datong offered a variety of green vegetables , fried rice , fried noodles  and congee besides the western cereal ; Beijing offered less choices. For dessert, Beijing hotel did not even offer any cakes .
Let's look at this :

This plate has about 8 types of vegetables , hot or cold .  

And a few variety of cakes, even pizza 

However , in the Beijing hotel, there was not much to choose from . So, the fried egg section is the busiest each morning .

If you read Chinese , it says Cat's ears.....and that shocks me . Are they really eating that ? It was actually macoroni & the shell paste .

Other than these , can't find other things attractive to eat .

One thing for sure, these northern dishes were all very oily......to our standard . For lunch and dinner , it seemed to be their standard to include two bottles of the local beer on each table . However, during lunch at this tourist restaurant near the Great Wall , this liquor was offered on each table.

This is a tourist restaurant cum souvenir center

Note the little alcohol cup next to a normal sized teacup

This is the 56% alcohol content Chinese  wine

It tasted like DOM , with strong herbal smell . A tiny cup is enough to make you blush .
The souvenir center had a good variety of souvenirs signaficantly Beijing , like this beautiful horses ......

Of course, these were more costly here !