Eat in Beijing You Won't Miss Them
By admin on 2015-01-07

The best way to eat well  and cheaply in Beijing is to enter one of the ubiquitous restaurants where the  locals are eating and pick a few different dishes from the menu. Truth be told,  anyone familiar with Western currency and prices will find Beijing a very  inexpensive city for food, especially considering that tipping is not practiced  in China.

Beijing Roast Duck is a famous Beijing specialty served  at many restaurants, but there are quite a few restaurants dedicated to the art  of roasting the perfect duck.

Expect to pay around ￥40 per whole duck at  budget-range establishments, and ￥160-￥190 at high-end restaurants. Beijing duck  is served with thin pancakes, plum sauce，and slivers of scallions and cucumbers.  You dip the duck in the sauce and roll it up in the pancake with a few slivers  of scallions and/or cucumbers. The end result is a mouthwatering combination of  the cool crunchiness of the cucumber, the sharpness of the scallions, and the  rich flavors of the duck.

Candied haw berries are dipped in molten sugar  which is left to harden in the cold and sold on a stick. You can also find  variations with oranges, grapes, strawberries, and bananas, or dipped in  crumbled peanuts as well as sugar. This sweet snack can also sometimes be found  in the spring and the summer, but the haw berries are often from last season's  crop.
 
Mongolian Hotpot originated from the Manchu people who emphasize  meats over other people. Like variations of hotpot from elsewhere in China and  Japan, lamb hotpot is a cook-it-yourself affair in a steaming pot in the center  of the table. Unlike Sichuan hotpot, lamb hotpot features a savory, non-spicy  broth. If that's not exciting enough for you, you can also request a spicy broth  (be aware that this is flaming red, filled with peppers, and not for the weak!)  To satisfy everyone, you can request yuānyáng,  which is a pot divided down the middle, with spicy broth on one side and regular  broth on the other.