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Updated: 2007-11-23 10:27

*Aunt Fan's Good Cooking

This restaurant is dedicated to home-made dishes such as slow-cooked porridge, hand-made noodles and spring onion cakes. Most clients say Aunt Fan's Good Cooking is a welcoming eatery with pinky blue and pinky red flowers patterned on the wall contrasting sharply with the surrounding grey walls. And the menu here is written with Aunt Fan's witty words about good food. Recommended dishes are the tianshan xiaoyangtui (roast lamb leg) and the most memorable is the spring onion cakes which are crispy and spicy and have many spring onions and are served in a big portion.

Location: No. 1 Dongyingfang Batiao, Dongcheng District
Tel: 010-65528336

*Laohanzi (old Chinese characters) Kejiacai

Laohanzi is a restaurant dedicated one of the most popular dishes in Beijing called kejiacai. In fact, kejiacai doesn’t refer to a particular dish, but a group of dishes served on a big plate and combines various ingredients.

Hidden in a winding lane, Laohanzi is hardly noticeable. Yet its delicious dishes are well worth finding the place. Recommend dishes are mizhi baoluyu (sweet fried weever). The fish is wrapped in tinfoil when being fried, so it is slender and tastes petty spicy after being fried. Another dish is lancai sijidou (mustard leaf, olive, string beans and meat are fried together). This dish is a bit salty and best accompanied with rice.

Location: 1/F, Jiezuo Mansion, No. 57 Xingfu Zhonglu, Chaoyang District
Tel: 010-64177720

*Yueminglou (shining moon tower)

The restaurant's name is taken from an ancient Chinese poem. As the restaurant is located beside Shichahai Lake, its surrounding scenery lives up to the name. On a clear night, people dining at Yueminglou may have two shining moons, one in the sky and the other in the lake.

Yueminglou sells guanfu dishes, which are prepared from secret recipes that used to be exclusively for high-ranking Chinese feudal officials. Recommend dishes are tanzirou, fatty meat braised in a crock pot, strawberry shrimp balls and some typical Beijing snacks like ludagun (glutinous rice rolls stuffed with red bean paste). For one person, less than 50 yuan is enough to feed the stomach.

Yueminglou has a terrace dining area. Though a bit narrow and only big enough for two people, the terrace has a beautiful evening view: red lanterns line a path through the thin fog to Shichahai Lake. And except for Monday, there are traditional Chinese songs and story telling performances.

Location: Jia No.21, Ya'er Hutong, Shichahai, Xicheng District

Edited by: Alice Yang

 

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