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Classic Beijing Food

Filed Under : Beijing Food by Sunny

Jun.11,2010

Beijing Food: oil tea

Beijing Food:Aiwowo

There are many classic Beijing Foods. Today I want to introduce you some delicious local Beijing foods which stand for the long culture of china and Beijing.
Fried chops rice cake
Fried chop rice cake is one of ancient Beijing foods. It is made up of yellow rice and water. If you want it to be softer, you can add more water. You’d better roll the filling on equally when you making. It appears yellow outside and it tastes sweet and fragrant.
Aiwowo
Aiwowo is one of the traditional Beijing foods. People begin to eat aiwowo after the Spring Festival. The aiwowo has very long history and it was recorded in ancient book named Zhuozhongzhi, from which we can know that people like aiwowo from long time ago.
Mimahua
Mimahua is a common famous food in Beijing. It is also called Sweet ear because it looks like people’s ear and it also has very long history. But it is better not keep too long. You are not supposed to eat too much because it contains too much fat. So just taste it and do not fall in love with it.　　

oil tea
　　
Oil tea is a kind of nourishment food. When the flour and edestan fried into yellow, and then add some fragrans and beef marrow fat. After rub evenly, add some sugar and water. It is very delicious as breakfast or dinner. People like it.
focal circle
Men, women and children are all like focal circles. It is crisp and smells fragrant. It is a traditional way to eat focal circle while eat sesame seed cake. When we are drinking bean juice, it is a good idea to have some focal circle too. Focal circle is a kind of ancient food and the produce procedure is very complex. Usually, people are not willing to make focal circle because of its trouble procedures. So, focal circle becomes more valued.

Tags : classic food

Beijing Exhibition Hall in Shanghai World Expo

Filed Under : Beijing Travel by Sunny

Jun.7,2010

Beijing Travel: Beijing Exhibition in shanghai World Expo

: Beijing Travel: Fuwas

Shanghai World Expo is on show recently. Many foreigners come and visit. If you want to have a Beijing travel, we also suggest you come to shanghai to visit Beijing exhibition hall. You will have an amazing experience.

The theme of this shanghai World Expo is Cultural Beijing, technological Beijing and green Beijing. 2008 Beijing Olympic Games gains a lot of materials and fortune for Beijing. It is an important landmark of Beijing’s development. Beijing summed up the experience of Beijing Olympic Games and developed on the basic of technology. Then we rise up Cultural Beijing, technological Beijing and green Beijing.

Overview of Beijing

It is not a static show of Beijing Exhibition Hall. Beijing is changing including the change of Temple of Heaven, Water Cube, National Grand Theater and the Nest and so on. Every building is a long story of Beijing and you can hear it’s talking to you. You can see the real picture of Chang An Street while you enjoy the film named Charming Capital directed by famous director Zhangyimou. The new way of showing will give you a different experience.

The Appearance of Exhibition Hall

This exhibition shows the new building and the Fuwas of Olympic Games. New china has developed for 60 years and people are living happy and peaceful life. The city is green and green is everywhere of this Exhibition. At the same time, there will be successful case of beijing Guoaocun which use sunlight energy, heat energy, wind energy source and geothermal energy. Every ground loop of Beijing shows you the concept of green.

This is just an overview of Beijing Exhibition Hall in this Shanghai World Expo. You can feel you are having a Beijing travel when you visit it. Have a good time of yourself!

Tags : exhibition hall, shanghai world expo

The Great Wall

Filed Under : Beijing Travel by Sunny

Jun.3,2010

Beijing Travel: the Great Wall

: Beijing Travel: the main road

There is a saying that he who has never been to the Great Wall is not a true man in china. So if you have a Beijing Travel, you are not supposed to miss the Great Wall besides the delicious Beijing Food. I have been to Great Wall and I want to share the experience with you.

I went to the Great Wall with my father this time. We took train and it is very different experience to take train than bus. We got on the train just several seconds before the train started. There were not too many people in the train and it was old just like five years ago that I had a Beijing travel first time. We took two more hours to reach The Ming Tombs than expected time. The ticket of Ming Tombs was 65 yuan, Chang Ling was 45 yuan and Shendao was 30 yuan. Ding Ling is the tome of Zhuyijun who was an emperor. There was a little to see except a palace underground and many of the sites were destroyed. Chang Ling is the tomb of Zhuli who was also an emperor. It is better than Ding Ling. Shendao is the main place of Ming Tombs, and it is maintained well.

The Great Wall at Juyongguan pass is very beautiful and it is more difficult to climb than the Great Wall at Badaling. The steps are steep and it gave me the experience of being a ‘man’. There are many foreigners and they are very exciting to crying I am hero! Yes, we feel proud to climb great wall and it is good to feel like a hero. There are two advantages to climb the Great Wall at Juyongguan. First, there is less visitors than that of Badaling. You can see beautiful sights in the evening if you climb at the highest beacon tower. The Great Wall looks like a dragon lying on the wandering hills. Second, the ticket is cheaper than that of Badaling.

We found a problem after the sightseeing. There was no bus to Beijing city. At last, we took a taxi to Nankou, and took the bus 919. We finished our Beijing travel.

Besides, I want to mention some Beijing Food since they were delicious. We ate rice served with meat and vegetables on top in Changping. It was delicious and it was even better than the instant-boiled mutton in Donglaishun.

I was so tired but happy when the Beijing Travel finished. I like a ten year old child when i ate the famous Beijing Food. If you have a chance, i recommend the Great Wall. You can understand my feeling only when you really there, trust me.

Tags : The Great Wall

List of Beijing Cafeteria

Filed Under : Beijing Restaurants by Sunny

May.31,2010

beijing restaurant: delicious food

: beijing restaurant: people are enjoying

: beijing rerstaurant: a corner of Cafeteria

There are many kinds of Beijing Restaurants and Beijing cafeteria is a wonderful part. Today I will introduce you several cafeterias which are not expensive but delicious.

Barbecue and hotpot self-service restaurant. It is in front of Shuangan. 20 RMB/ a person.
Tomato pizza self-service restaurant. It is besides the light railway of Wudaokou. 28 RMB/ a person in the noon.
Hotpot self-service restaurant under Xidan Culture Square. It has been decorated and opens again. 28 RMB/ a person.
There is a Western-style food self-service restaurant named Rongbao Restaurant in the south of Lanbao Building in Chaoyang District. There are both Chinese food and western-style food. Western style food: fried chicken legs, fried fish, curry beef, cream fish, stew beef, cream soup, Borsch Soup of Moscow, Italy noodles, vegetable salad, bread, butter, jam, sausage and so on. Chinese food: stewed pork, sauté diced chicken with peanuts, poached prawns, Yangzhou fried rice and so on. Fruits: many kinds of fresh fruits and fruit salad. If you want to try the western food in china, it is a good choice for you.
There is another restaurant service both Chinese food and western food in Chengxiang Trading center. 38 RMB/ a person.
The Brazilian barbecue restaurants in Tuanjiehu. 28 RMB/ female, 38 RMB/ male. If you love meat, it is a good choice for you.
The Origins Pizza self-service restaurants. 38 RMB/ male. I do not think the pizza and ice-cream is so good. But chicken wing, chips and egg tart are good.
Western Cow Boys barbecue. It is totally self-service and all the foods are tasty. I like the sauce and bacon. But you have to have a wash if you have a dinner there since the smell will last very long.

I only list a part of Beijing Cafeterias. When you have a Beijing Travel and you are really interested in Beijing Food, tell me what you care about and I am ready to sharing my experience in Beijing.

Tags : Beijing Cafeteria, beijng cafeteria

Disappearing Beijing Food

Filed Under : Beijing Food by Sunny

May.28,2010

Beijing Food:Diaolu Sesame seed cake

: Beijing Food:lamb tripe

: beijing food:Lotus leaf porridge

There are many kinds of snacks in Beijing old days. But they are disappearing because of times and other factors. It is a pity that they cannot enjoy the ancient local Beijing food when visitors have a Beijing Travel. Today I try to recall some old and disappearing Beijing food.

Diaolu Sesame seed cake

Many breakfast stores used to sell Diaolu Sesame seed cake, glutinous rice congee, and Chinese doughnut and so on. Diaolu Sesame seed cake was not the same with the cake now. it is larger and thinner. It is baked when it is hanging up. So it is called Diao in Chinese. When it is baked, there are two surfaces and it can be eat together with Chinese doughnut. It smells delicious and tasted crisp and hot. Very nice!

Famous lamb tripe

Vendors always crying “lamb tripe is cooked!” when selling. Lamb tripe was very popular that time. You can see the lamb tripe on temple fair, market, and street. I almost had once every day on those old days. But why they only sell in the afternoon or evening? That’s because they had to buy sheep blood in the morning and then had the blood into lamb gut. When it was cooked, it turned to white and grey. That’s the reason it called lamb tripe.

Lotus leaf porridge

Vendors sold Lotus leaf porridge every summer. The most famous is the store in Red Door Bridge. If you want to have pure lotus leaf porridge, you have to use the green tender lotus leaf when cooking. When the rice and millet are cooked into half dry, put some sugar and keep cooking with soft fire. Then put lotus leaf on the surface of porridge to wait several minutes. When it is cooked, you can smell the fragrance the entire kitchen.

There is much more old memory than I can catch. When you have a Beijing Travel and would like to have some Beijing food, you are lucky to have these old snacks if you can see them.

Tags : Beijing Food

Sharing some Beijing Restaurants

Filed Under : Beijing Restaurants by Sunny

May.27,2010

Beijing Restaurants:The inside of Lulu restaurant

: Beijing Restaurants: The outside of Lulu Restaurant

When you have a Beijing Travel, you will not miss the Beijing Food. Today I want to share several Beijing restaurants with you. It is just my experiences in Beijing. If you like it, just share it with your friends. Here in Beijing restaurants, you can eat the delicious food from all districts in china.

If you are interested in shanghai food, I have to recommend you Lulu. There are two stores in Beijing, but I only went to the one in Hongmiao. The dish eight treasures in hot sauce are always on sales and it is delicious. Though it is not as well as the local foods, it is much better than some other shanghai food restaurants. The quality is quite good and I want to recommend the Sauteed Hardshell crab with rice cake though it is a little expensive. If you want to have a dinner with your friends, make a reservation please. The contact number is 65930442. It is in Dawang road, south to the crossing of Hongmiao Road.

The second Beijing restaurant I want to recommend is Dachuanmen. It belongs to Huaiyang cuisine. When you come, please do not forget to order soft heart, water shield and bean curd soup, salted pork, weever, fried shrimp meat and dry celery. There is a kind of vegetarian bean curd roll which is very delicious. You won’t miss it. I like the glass window falling to the ground. But I have to mention that there is no parking place. The contact number is 85965399.

Guangdong dishes are also very nice. Here I want to recommend you Weishijia. It is on the 5^th floor of pizza store in Zhidongmen. The cost is not very high and it is about 70-80RMB per person. I recommend Hot pot rice, stewed peanuts, soy sauce chicken, all kinds of noodles and congee, pork ribs and towel gourd with clams. I believe you will try chengchunfen since it is air transportation from Guangzhou. But it is a pity that there is no shaolamai. It is said since their kitchen is not large enough. I suggest you make a reservation when it is weekends or holidays. The contact number is 64686868.

Do you like the Beijing restaurants I recommend you? I will recommend you more in the near future. Beijing Food is a kind of art and so are Beijing restaurants. I will appreciate if you can leave me questions. I would be happy to answer you.

Tags : Beijing Restaurants, good restaurants

Beijing Food Overview

Filed Under : Beijing Food by Sunny

May.26,2010

Beijing Food: Mapo bean curd

: Beijing Food:tomotaes on sticks

: Beijing Food:roast duck

People who have ever been to Beijing are interested in Beijing food. Besides roast duck and shao-mai, people are impressed by Beijing Snacks. Eating snacks is making up for meals, which are different from meal or dinner. Firstly, Beijing food has strong taste with local color, sweet or salty. Secondly, Beijing food has pure material, crisp and delicious or creamy and tasty. Thirdly, Beijing food has extremes temperature. Some food are supposed to eat while very hot such as decoction offal and hot fried cake, and some are really cool such as glutinous rice cake cool and jelly. Fourthly. Beijing food is tasty but not expensive.

Beijing food can be divided into three kinds: han flavor, hui flavor and imperial flavor. From the way of cooking, it can also be divided into braise, fry, decoct, burst, rinse, strew and so on. Someone have Beijing food assimilates to Living Fossil of this ancient city. People said you can never have enough for the Beijing food.

There are several places to eat Beijing food. The first one is Nanlaishun in Xuanwu dirstrt. There are more than 70 kinds of different beijing foods. The second one is the Fulongshi store which is in the east of the city. Most of the foods are Muslim style. The third one is Fangshan restaurant in Beihai Park, which provides imperial flavor foods. The fourth one is the street of snacks in Donghuamen.

If you are going to have a Beijing Travel and you are supposed to have a look at Beijing food. It will be a good memory when you are in Beijing. Today I only write a overview of Beijing food, I would like to give a detail classification next time.

Tags : Beijing Food, chinese food

Beijing Travel of Tiananmen Square

Filed Under : Beijing Travel by Sunny

May.25,2010

Beijing Travel:Monument

: Beijing Travel:tiananmen

I am always looking forward to have a Beijing Travel. Beijing is the center of politics, economics and culture of china. Many people from home or abroad would like to have a Beijing Travel. I went to Beijing in September. There were many people in the Tiananmen Square including many foreign visitors.

Workers were busy with arranging the flowers and lighting to welcome the national day. I took many pictures of the people’s Heroes Monument and Great Hall. Then I came into Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. The Imperial Palace is in the center of Beijing city. It is build in 1420, the palace of Ming and Qing Dynasty. Fourteen emperors in Ming Dynasty and ten emperors in Qing Dynasty lived here. They governed china for four hundred and ninety-one years. If you are going to have a Beijing Travel, you must go to the Imperial Palaces. There are many luxuriant buildings and there are city wall which are more than ten meters high. City Moat is fifty-two meters wide and it is out of the town.

We wore a pair of eco-friendly shoes to protect the precious ground. I saw many treasures like golden washbowls, shwedagon pagoda, and ivory mat and so on. All of them are treasure and they are priceless.

The largest garden is imperial garden and it locates in Palace of Tranquil Longevity. You can see high mountains and old trees. There are booths and corridors, mountains and trees, very beautiful.

We went to Beihai Park after visiting the Imperial Palace. It is also a great place worth to visit when you make a Beijing travel. You can see a high white towel from the sight. The lake is under the tower and it is like a mirror. When you come to the hole in the ground, you will feel amazing to find that eight immortal sitting there.

It will be a great memory if you have a Beijing Travel since everything is amazing and it is totally different from the culture of western. And Tiananmen is a treasure among the Chinese culture.

Tags : Beijing Travel, Travel in china

Beijing Travel Overview

Filed Under : Beijing Travel by Sunny

May.24,2010

The great wall

: tiananmen

With the development of Beijing, Beijing begins to be well-know of the world. People around the world would rather to see this ancient and modern city. Beijing Travel is a hot noun. If you search Beijing Travel in Google or Baidu, you can get thousands of introducing articles. Here we are going to have a overview of Beijing Travel.

We can visit Tiananmen Square, the Imperial Palace, Wangfujing Street, State Opera House in a day since they are near Tiananmen Square. It will take you almost one or two days if you want to have a careful visit near Tiananmen. Visiting the Imperial Palace needs at least half day and then you can come to the Beihai park. When you come out of Beihai Park, it will almost be the evening. Then you can go to Wangfujing. There is a street with many kinds of Beijing Foods.

Water Cube and Birds’ Nest are near Olympic Park. Both Tsinghua University and the Summer Palace are in Haidian District. You are supposed to visit Weiming Lake in Peking University. Besides the mentioned places, there are many other places to visit in downtown,such as the national Museum, Great View of Park, Temple of Heaven, China Millennium Monument, Nature Room Science and Technology Museum and so on. There are also many places of interests in suburbs. Badaling, Badaling Safari Park, Lugou Bridge, Biyun Temple, Tanzhe Temple, Wofo Temple, the White Cloud Taoist Temple, the Ruins of Yuanmingyuan, China Century Altar, the Great Hall of the People.

If you want to have a Beijing travelling, you really have a lot of choices. Before you go to Beijing, you’d better make a plan first. I just give a brief introduction to Beijing travel. If you like it, just go to Beijing and have a look at these sightseeings. I believe you will not disappoint.

Tags : Beijing Travel