Chinese food and eating out in Beijing
Food and eating out in Beijing. Guide to some of the restaurants in Beijing.
Lunch with Al Gore
Well not quite lunch with Al Gore, but I had lunch the other day at Li Quan Roast Duck Restaurant where Al Gore’s picture hangs in the entrance amongst the other celebrities. Li Quan Roast Duck Restaurant won’t win any awards for the decor, but the place is authentic as they come.
Address: Beixiangfeng, Zhengyi [...]
The newly renovated Beijing Hard Rock Cafe
The bus from the Beijing airport dropped me off near the Hard Rock Cafe so I decided to drop in there for lunch. It has been closed for renovations for the past few months, so I thought it would be a good chance to check it out. I never saw how it looked [...]
Probably the next most photographed place in Beijing after the Great Wall and the Forbidden City is the Wanfujing night food market.
Every night you see foreigners taking pictures of the delicacies on display, daring each other to try the silk worms and scorpions. I can imagine that a scorpion might just be like eating [...]
Song - music bar
Looking for a change in scenery I am blogging from the Song in the Place shopping center in Beijing this afternoon. I read in a magazine that it was like something taken out of a Haruki Murakami novel, so I had to check it out.
From their website:
Sòng has been designed by Zhong Song, one [...]
Wangfujing Chinese food court
If you are shopping in Wangfujing Street and looking to get a bite to eat you might want to give the basement level, food court a try. The food court has a huge variety of Chinese snack foods and deserts from all over China.
Chinese hot pot - huo guo
Chinese hot pot or huo guo is one of the delights of eating out in China. Typically the soup is brought to the table and kept heated by a gas ring. The soup is usually divided between spicy and non-spicy. Various vegetables, tofu, noodles and meats are cooked briefly in the soup. [...]
