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Monday, March 22, 2010

Hotpot, Beijing Hotpot Restaurants, Beijing Dinning

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Eating Hot Pot in Beijing Restaurant

Hot pot restaurants are especially popular during the winter season when the city cools down and diners are looking for a nice hot meal. For newcomers to this style of eating, ordering at hot pot restaurants can be a little tricky, as finding the best mixture of meats and vegetables is developed through experience.

So here are a few reputable hot pot restaurants in downtown Beijing for newcomers to start their hot pot journey.

Similar to fondue cooking, hot pot is a style of cuisine in which diners select meats and vegetables and prepare their own communal meal in a large pot filled with a usually spicy broth. Hop pot restaurants are especially popular for large parties as they create a collective cooking and eating experience.



Where can eating Hot Pot in Beijing
Koufuju hot pot restaurant: reminiscent of old Beijing
Location: No.29 Zhichunlu, Haidian,Beijing  Tel: 86-10-82355888
A typical Beijing hot pot restaurant, with independent small pots, Koufuju looks much cleaner than common hot pot restaurants. Its mutton, sugar garlic and seasoning are known as the best three of the hot pot world and have attracted the patronage of many Chinese celebrities. Though the price might be a bit high, its strong old Beijing flavor makes up for it. A good place to dine with friends.

Longshunyuan Spicy Pot: Spicy heaven
location: East of Beichen Shopping Center  Tel: 86-10-64810510

Hot pot at Longshunyuan is a bit different. It doesn't have as much broth as an ordinary hot pot. Diners may put whatever they like into the drier pot to fry.
The combination of bamboo shoots, luncheon meats, broad vermicelli and dried beancurd sticks comes highly recommended. Diners may also choose how spicy they want their meal. Medium-hot alone is enough to numb the mouths of those with a penchant for spice. After dinner, customers are treated to corn porridge.Some diners recommend the airport branch over other Longshunyuan branches for its amazing spiciness. Definitely try the spicy crabs.

Ningmeng Yezi (lemon leaves): a celebrity-owned restaurant
Location: No.15 Xiaoyunlu, Chaoyang,Beijing  Tel: 010-64625505
Owned by Taiwan pop singer and TV star Wu Qilong, Ningmeng Yezi is a Thai style little eatery featuring hot pot as well as fried dishes.

Three kinds of hot pot broths come highly recommended, the curry broth, spicy and sour broth and the legendary Benz hot pot whose pot has three compartments holding three different-flavored broths chosen from an available six.

After dinner guests get a free taste of the famous Taiwan dessert Hongdou Bingshan (red pea ice mountain). Ningmeng Yezi also boasts tasteful design.

Haidilao Hot Pot Restaurant: for free treatments
Location: Jia 2 Huixin Dongjie, Chaoyang  Tel: 010-84639300
Haidilao has five branches in Beijing, all which have good reputations among diners. Haidilao provides authentic Sichuan hot pot. All dishes are available in both full and half portions. But what makes dining at Haidilao a pleasant experience is its various free services which make queuing for the dishes a pleasure in itself. At Haidilao all diners are entitled to free ice water, fruit salad, melon seeds, nail care and shoe shining, and they may also play chess or cards while they wait. Another shining point is Haidilao's Lalamian (pulled noodles) performance which features a young boy pulling noodles while dancing.
Chongqing Kongliang Hot Pot
Location : 218 Dongzhimen Neidajie, Chaoyang, Tel: 010-8404-4906
For spicy food lovers, this authentic Chongqing hot pot is sure to satisfy your palate. Don't forget to try their famous eel while tucking into a variety of fresh meats and vegetables in a lovely courtyard setting.
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Taipan Oriental , Beijing Top Restaurant, Beijing Dinning

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Taipan Oriental


June 2006 Time Out Beijing

A Hong Kong style restaurant on the second floor with a few Portugese/Mecanese dishes and a bakery on the ground floor. An outdoor wooden deck furnished with comfortable summer chairs and tables is a pleasant spot for a cup of coffee.

The shrimp wonton comes with tasty broth and the shrimps are firm and delicious. Baked whole pigeon served with a piece of lemon, salt and pepper and Worcestershire sauce as condiment, is tender and juicy, a nice change from the familiar taste of chicken.

Taipan’s shaola, roasted and barbebued meat is probably arguably the best in town. You can order anywhere from one up to three types of your favorite meats and it comes with a heap of steamed rice and two pieces of choyxim, the typical southern ‘heart vegetable’.

There are also several kinds of curry dishes offered, ranging from 20 RMB to 98 RMB for crab curry. Portugese sausage garnished with tomatoes and onion and Mecanese fried rice is worth trying.

Golden Jaguar is located on Donganmen Dajie and the cooked-to-order-feel of the restaurant is not a million miles away from that of the Wangfujing night market outside. The interior’s brightly-lit marble floors give it the anonymous atmosphere of an upscale canteen, but it does have a buzz about it, with cooks hovering over food stations and attentive staff constantly maneuvering between tables. Fish fans in the north of the city should head to their Yayuncun location.

Add : 2F, Xinzu Daxia, 6 Ritan Lu, Chaoyang district

Tel: 6585 3478

Hours: 11am-2:30pm, 5-10:30pm


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Gu Xiang 20 , Beijing Top Restaurant, Beijing Dinning

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Gu Xiang 20


June 2006 Time Out Beijing

The hutong street of Nanluoguxiang continues to thrive as new businesses snap up coveted spaces on the remodeled ‘old street’. With clothing and accessories stores alongside a healthy range of restaurants, bars and coffee shops – it’s easy to see why some tourists find it hard to leave the quaint area.

Gu Xiang 20 is the restaurant attached to a newly renovated two-storey boutique hotel of the same name – a tasteful and traditional mix of beams and grey roofing. Sepia photographs of old Beijing are hung on the walls. The wood and stone carvings with flower motifs--a rapidly disappearing craft occasionally seen in crumbling courtyard house--are dotted through the restaurant, and painted octagonal lanterns hung from the ceiling. The only thing that jar with the oriental mood are the the pair of glittering chandeliers hanging in the middle of the dining room.

Booth seating offers an ideal spot for daytime dining thanks to a view over the yard and the abundance of natural light that floods through the glass partitions and ceiling.

Gu Xiang’s main focus is Chinese delicacies, hinted at by the huge Sea Tiger shark's fin displayed in the foyer. Dishes made with bird's nest, abalone, and shark’s fin range from 400-800RMB, although there were plenty of moderately priced dishes to pick from. A single sheet inserted in the book-like menu introduced several more dishes at more everyday prices.

The xianggan ta, or ‘beancurd tower’ (18RMB) -- an appetizer made with tofu and caixin, (Guangdong kale) – is full of the rich flavor of sesame oil and is delicious. The sweet and sour pork (38RMB) is crisp, tender and served doused with a pungent sauce. Stir-fried lamb with celery and diced hot chilies (32RMB) is exciting, except for the corn flakes that were fried together with the lamb--paper-thin slices of potato or taro would have been a better match. The plum chicken (26RMB) has a similar to the sweet and sour pork, except it was served with plums. If you are going to order just one of the two dishes, make it this one. The plums are a novelty, and their slightly tart flavor of the plums is a nice compliment to the sweet and sour sauce.

With great good and super friendly staff who fill tea cups without being asked but still manage to be unobtrusive, Gu Xiang 20 is very promising. The charming traditional structure is full of old Beijing character and certain to go down a treat with locals and tourists alike.

Add : 20 Nan Luoguxiang, Dongcheng district 古巷20号 东城区 南锣鼓巷20号

Tel: 6400 5566

Hours: 11am-2:30pm, 5-10:30pm


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Wenyu Nailao , Beijing Top Restaurant, Beijing Dinning

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Wenyu Nailao


Time Out August 2006

You'd likely walk past the non descript Wenyu Nailao Shop were it not for the eye-catching black sign board engraved with gold characters that hangs over the entrance located on the narrow Nanluogu Xiang.

Peek into this simple shop that specializes in nailao, a yoghurt-type snack that is smooth and appetizing, and you'll notice that there are just two tables and a counter, usually filled with customers. Several bowls in an array of colors are lined up neatly in the refrigerator.

There are pastel colored pink, brown, purple, yellow and white, or strawberry, coffee, taro banana, and plain nailao, for 4RMB a bowl. The taro nailao is exceptionally silky and delicious, similar to douhua (a custard-like beancurd), but a lot more firmer and creamier in texture.

Nailao (which is also the term for cheese in Chinese) is made with milk and sugar--like yoghurt--but the difference is that it is not fermented, but instead baked. The most interesting thing about nailao is the rice wine component.

The craft of making nailao, in danger of disappearing, was fortunately continued by Tian Wenyu, the current owner of this family operated place. It is now one of the few small shops in Beijing that continue this tradition.

“I learned how to make nailao from my grandfather,” says Mr. Tian, slowly warming up as the interview proceeds. He says a man surnamed Zuo passed the recipe on to his grandfather because none of his own descendants were interested in carrying on his tradition.

In addition to selling 200-300 bowls a day of nailao, Mr. Tian also makes what could be the best suanmei tang in town. A hefty glass of this thirst-quenching summer drink made with dark plums (wumei), sells for just 4.5RMB. There is a slightly smoky plum flavor to the sour and sweet drink.

Mr. Tian also has a new invention, shuangpi nai (5RMB), based on a Cantonese recipe. As shuang means double this suggests a custard-like snack that is much heavier and richer than nailao.



Add : Shop 49 Nanluoguxiang, Dongcheng district

Tel: 6405 7621

Hours: 11am-10pm


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