The Xiaomaibu area of Beijing Foreign Studies University. A Xiaomaibu is a small convience store. When I lived here, it looked very similar, but with a large bicycle parking area. It was a place to enjoy cheap Yanjing beer with your fellow students and snack on the pastries, and read 2 day old International Tribune newspapers. Many an evening I'd sit there drinking 5 cent a bottle Yanjing beer and shoot the breeze with fellow students in both English and Chinese. They've cleaned it up nicely, adding a nicer, more permanent seating area and apparently removing the bike parking area. 
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