Joyway, a newly opened restaurant near the University of International Business and Economics, offers hot pot and a quick bite for office workers. The medium-sized restaurant is divided into two sections one to the left of the entrance for hot pot and snacks, while the right just offers snack food. The decor is minimalist in yellow and white.

The hot pot soup section of the menu offers several popular options: Hong Kong style hot pot soup, the more traditional Chinese "yuanyang" soup, that is, both red spicy soup and white non-spicy soup, and mushroom soup.

There is an abundance of choices including meat, vegetables, and seafood for the hot pot.

The snack section is rather simple, divided into set meals, noodles, cold dishes, hot dishes, some Japanese foods, Chinese liquor and smooth ice.

The set meals include chicken and beef curries with rice. Cold dishes include choices such as vegetables, and pork, beef or fish. There are both Chinese noodles and Japanese noodles.

Fried fish cubes with crisp peanuts is cooked in the same style as the ubiquitous gong bao ji ding except chicken cubes are replaced with fish cubes, tasting more tender, but with the same sweet and spicy tang. Although the flavour is good, the price, 38 yuan (US$4.75), is a bit high.

The mango smooth ice contains what seems to be canned mango, and could taste better. A glass of smooth ice costs 12 yuan (US$1.5).

Location: Western side of street, 100 metres to the south of Huixin Dongqiao on northern Fourth Ring Road, opposite SINOPEC
Opening hours: 10:30 am-10:30 pm
Tel: 010-64976229