Things to know about Belfast:

When you ask the locals where you should have dinner, they all (at least 5 of them) recommend The Red Panda. We declined the advice, mostly because we didn’t want to explain why we ate Chinese in Ireland. We also discovered that after 8:30 all the kitchens close. This explains why Guiness is such a meaty brew. It’s all there is to eat after dark.

We also learned that the oldest pub in Belfast is right across from the most bombed (literally) hotel in the city. Coincidence? Makes you wonder if the hotel was just a convenience target for the chaps in the pub, or if the bombings were really an attempt by the chaps’ wives to liberate them from their bar stools.