Last Sunday was a gorgeous sunny day and while walking around downtown I stumbled into the tourist information office. They mentioned that the King (Leopold is his name, I believe) opens his gardens up for the public a couple rare times each year and that day happened to be one of them. I got directions to the park to the north in which his palace is found (Laeken Park) and hopped on the metro. The Park is quite big and contains not only his palace, his enormous garden with endless greenhouses, but also this Chinese Pavillion. Aparently the first king to reside in this property wanted most of the structures to be Asian-influenced, but the motivation only lasted long enough to build this Pavillion and a Japanese garden, if I remember correctly.