palisade

With room inside for dozens of people and dwellings sunk almost 2 meters deep for warmth in Siberian winters, the fortresses were ringed by earthen walls several meters high and topped with wooden palisades.

Buckingham Palace was taken aback, and it responded with a terse, 61-word statement that sought to contain the drama within the familiar royal palisade of privacy.

“You see how friendly they are. If we build a palisade it will look as if we are their enemies. We will build no fortification.”

The noodle house may be hard to find because it’s literally overshadowed by the palisades of the Great Wall Shopping Mall nearby.

Other than the shell of a reconstructed barracks and the palisades outlining the fort, there were no other attempts at verisimilitude.