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Wan Liu Ge
(bestfoodinchina.net)
Updated: 2008-08-18 14:34 Wan Liu Ge
 Location(s): No.8 Long Tan Road, Chongwen district, Beijing Tel: 010-67195886 Service quality: very good Food quality: very good Price per head (RMB): 100-200 Environment: very good Located south of Dong Cheng district is one of the ten best parks in Beijing is Wan liu ge. The restaurant itself is a converted residence of traditional courtyard house architecture, beautifully painted on the outside and inside full of authentic stone sculpture, wood carvings and admirable wood panel fret-work showing scenes from times gone by. The courtyard (once open to the sky) has been covered to provide space the largest dining area. Eight VIP dining rooms occupy the classic bay, or "the space between", design of the classic courtyard/bay architecture. One of the VIP rooms had an exposed ceiling showing the typical pillars-and-beams framing the epitomizes this tradition. Equally impressive is the restaurant's surroundings. A very spacious outdoor courtyard dining area with comfortable canvas chairs is separated from the lake of this beautiful park by a sinuous pure white carved stone wall. The restaurant and the courtyard blend effortlessly with the calm and restful natural surroundings: an uncommonly relaxing environment. Ninety per cent of Wan liu ge's customers are Chinese, but the menus are in English with pictures and the severs are young and polite. |
