Beijing Roast Duck--Cantonese--Chaozhou--Contemporary
Dim Sum--Fich Head Hotpot--Hangzhou--Hot Pot--Huaiyang
Imperial--Muslim/Xinjiang--Nostalgia--Old
Beijing--Roast/BBQ/Grill
Shanghai--Shanxi--Sichuan--Singaporean--Taiwanese--Vegetarian--Yunnan
Shanxi
Jinyang Restaurant
11am-2pm, 5pm-8:30pm under RMB100
241 Zhushikou Street,
6303-1669.
Insulation for winter; good noodles.
Laoshan Noodle Shop
way under RMB100.
Xingfu Sancun, South Xindong Road,
6416-1488.
Great Shanxi noodles and paomo, really cheap, definitely recommended.
Sichuan
Numbing hot and burning is the trademark of this region's
cuisine.
Bamboo Hotel
12am-2pm. 6pm-9pm, RMB200.
24 Xiaoshiqiao Hutong, Jiugulou Street
6403-2229 ext.252
Berena's Bistro
11:30am-12pm, RMB100-200.
6 Gongti East Road, in the City Hotel complex
6592-2628.
The inexpensive food and atmosphere seems to make Berena's the place to dine Sichuan a la
expat. Wash down dinner with hard-to-find German black beer or Erlinger.
Donglaishun Restaurant
11am-2pm, 5pm-9:30pm, RMB100
5/F, Xindong'an Plaza, Wangfujing Street
6528-0932
Dragon Cuisine
11:30am-2pm, 5:30pm-10pm, RMB100-200
Yanshan Hotel, 138 Haidian Road
6256-3388 ext.154/178
Emei Restaurant
11:30am-2pm, 5:30pm-9:30pm. RMBl00-200.
Yuyang Hotel, 18 Xinyuanxili Middle
Street
6466-6617
Gao Jia Yuan
10am-12pm. RMB100-200.
311 Jiangtai Road, Chaoyang District
6434-1534
Jinshancheng Cbongqing Restaurant
11am-2:30pm, 5pm-10:30pm, RMB100-200.
Across from the Kempinski Hotel
6464-0945
A restaurant that knows how to make the dishes they never really know how to make abroad:
crispy fried green beens (Ganbian Siji dou), and squirrel fish (Songshu Guiyu).
Laijinyuxuan Restaurant
11am-4pm, RMB200-300.
In the west of Zhongshan Park
6605-6676
Recipes taken from Qing Dynasty novel Dream of the Red Mansions. Call in advance for
dinner reservations
Sichuan Restaurant
11am-2pm, 5pm-9pm, RMB200-300.
14 Liuyin Street, Xicheng District
6615-6924/6925
Sichuan Pavilion
11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30pm-9:30pm. RMB200-300.
51 Xirongxian Hutong, Xidan
6603-8855 ext.184
Three Gorges
9:30am-2pm, 4:30pm-9pm. under RMB100.
76 Xirongxian Hutong, Xidan
6601-4612, 6605-1678
Xihe Yaju
11am-2:30pm, 5pm-10pm, RMB100.
Northeast corner of Ritan Park
6594-1915
Yuen Tai Restaurant
11:30am-2pm, 6pm-10pm, RMB200-300.
21/F, Great Wall Sheraton Hotel,
10 East Third Ring North Road
6590-5566 ext.2295
Singaporean
Sentosa (Beijing Yuweishi
Xinjapo meishi)
11am-11pm. RMB100-200.
8 Xinyuanxili Middle Street
6468-2894.
Singaporean favorites like Curry Fish Head, Mee Goreng, Mee Siam, Hainanese Chicken Rice.
Satay, prepared by an experienced chef.
Sing Chinatown
11:30am-10:30pm, RMB100-200
South Side of Xidan Times Plaza
6606-8088
Cantonese and Shanghainese chefs serve us above decent Asian food in an atmosphere perfect
for beer and friends.
Taiwanese
Ding Tai Zhen Restaurant
9:30pm-4am, under RMB100
116 Dongsi South Street Dongcheng District
6525-7578
Shenglin Fu Restaurant
10am-12pm, under RMB100
18 Sanlitun North Road
6415-9274, 6415-9233
Xianzonglin
10am-1am, under RMB100
69 Dongdan North Street
6708-3039
Brings out the kid in you, mixed between the Chinese and Western traditions (lots of
experimental food) but quite good.
Vegetarian
Gongdelin
11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30pm-9pm. RMB100-200
158 Qianmen South Avenue
6511-2542,
A rare opportunity to get asparagus (lu sun) along with gongbao jiding.
Green Tianshi Vegetarian
Restaurant
11am-9:30pm, RMB100-200.
57 Dengshikou, Dongcheng District
6524-2349
Yunnan
Yunnan tood is what Chinese eat when they want ethnic.
There's an emphasis on fresh herbs and unusual tastes, like mint. Or, walk on the wilder
side with food of the Dai people in Yunnan: lots of stuff cooked in bamboo tubes, rice
stuffed in pineapples, fresh snake and buckets of bile-yum.
Daijiacun Restaurant
11:30pm-1:30pm, 5:30pm-10:30pm. Perfonnances 12:30-1:30, 6:30-7:30. RMB100-200
-Guandongdian South Street Chaoyang District
-13 Tiyuguan Road
6714-0145
Yunteng Hotel Restaurant
RMB100-200.
Building 7, East Area, Donghuashi Beili, Chongwen District
6711-3322 ext.7105.
Fresh mushroom is served until the end of September. |
