I am staying at the Capitol Hotel next to the Forbidden city.
2007-03-19 07:26:13 · 6 answers · asked by theagitator@sbcglobal.net 2 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ China
For the cold weather, Hotpot is the favorite of Beijing people. From the quantity and quality of Beijing Hotpot Restaurants, we may conclude how Beijing people love it. There are basically two kinds of hotpot restaurants in Beijing: Mongolian style and Sichuan style. The staple of both types of hotpot is mutton (yang rou). The meat is usually sliced frozen so that it curls up into a tube shape. Then you place the meat into the hotpot, which is a copper pot containing a boiling soup base. After a few seconds the meat is cooked and you dip it into a sesame butter sauce. The verb describing the action of cooking the meat this way is called 'shuan'. Other shuan-ables include beef (fei niu), frozen bean curd (dong dofu), Chinese cabbage (bai cai), bean sprouts (dou miao), and glass noodles (fen si). Spicy Sichuan hotpot has a soup base which can be described as either super spicy or mildly radioactive, but the pot is often divided into half spicy, half non-spicy soup pots. The soup base for Mongolian style is not spicy, and usually consists of some vegetables and seafood.
Famous Mongolian style hotpot restaurants are Neng Ren Ju and Dong Lai Shun. The most well-known Sichuan style hotpot restaurant is Jin Shan Cheng, of which there are many scattered throughout the city.
Recently there has been an explosion of buffet-style hotpot restaurants. Generally you pay a set price (often around 38 Yuan or 58 Yuan) for an all-you-can-eat meal. All-you-can-drink beer is included in the price too!
Neng Ren Ju Restaurant
Average cost per person: 50 Yuan - 80 Yuan
Location: 135, Xi Da Jie, Qianmen
Hours: 11:00 - 23:00
Hai Di Lao (Da Hui Temple Branch)
Average cost per person: 30 Yuan - 52 Yuan
Location: 2, Da Hui Temple Lu, Haidian District
Hours: 10:00 - 22:00
Dong Lai Shun Restaurant (Jianguomen Branch)
Average cost per person: 50 Yuan - 100 Yuan
Location: 2, Xiaoyangmao Hutong, Jianguomennei Da Jie, Dongcheng Distrct
Hours: 09:30 - 21:30
Chongqing Jinshancheng Hotpot (Huayuanqiao Branch)
Average cost per person: 40 Yuan - 80 Yuan
Location: 12, Bei Wa Lu (inside Zhongzi Mansion), Haidian District
Hours: 11:00-23:00
Tiandu Chongqing Hotpot Restaurant
Average cost per person: about 50 Yuan
Location: 86, Xueyuan Nan Lu, Haidian District
Hours: 11:30 - 22:00
Xiaofeiyang (Tiantongyuan Branch)
Average cost per person: about 50 Yuan
Location: 21, Tiantongyuan, Changping District
Hours: 11:00 - 22:00
Huang Cheng Lao Ma (Dewai Branch)
Average cost per person: about 100 Yuan
Location: 9, Jiaochangkou Jie, Xicheng District
Hours: 11:00 - 24:00
Enjoy your meal
2007-03-19 16:05:49 · answer #1 · answered by THEGURU 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cant remeber one specifically. When I lived in BJ many of the local sichaun places were very good (if ur okay to eat very spicy food). The best advice I can give is pick up a copy of 'Thats Beijing' - it is the local expat magazine with whats on that month. In the back it has a list of all the best places to eat and drink listed categorically. Ull have no problems.
If u cant find one in that. Try Ghost Road in Dongzhimen - they have lots of authentic restaurants from all around china.
2007-03-19 16:10:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
One of the better ones is Jinshancheng Chongqing Restaurant (tel. 6581 1598) in Chaoyang district. A favourite of the expat community is Berena's Bistro (tel. 6592 2628).
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