Eating in Beijing

For the Australian Embassy, Molldrew created a guide to eating around certain areas in Beijing. Here is a summary:

a)    Locations and map of some dining areas around Dongzhimen / Sanlitun

1. Ordering in – UN restaurant You get two dishes plus rice for 12 kuai (if two vegetarian dishes), 14 kuai (if 1 vegie, 1 meat), 16 kuai (2 meat)

Step 1: Go to http://www.unms.cn/cat.asp?catid=95 and pick out two dishes (the ones not in bold - meat dishes on left, vegie on right) - I generally use Google Translate to work out what the dishes are since my Chinese is poor!

Step 2: Before 11 (but earlier the better, they occasionally run out of certain dishes), ring the number above on the page, or as I do text them on 13621221178. 

2. Chinese Restaurant opposite the embassy – Noted by red doors and lanterns, this restaurant serves good dishes (Favourites include beef and broccoli, Sweet and Sour Pork, Hongshao Eggplant, Yuxiang Eggplant, Garlic Broccoli.)
3. Indian Restaurant – Second floor above Paddy O’Sheas. Expensive dinners, but has a RMB48 per person lunch buffet including several meat and vegetarian dishes.
4. Ginza Mall - Inside Ginza Mall there is McDonalds, Yoshinoya (Japanese meat and rice dishes) and other Chinese/Japanese restaurants.
5. Raffles – A shopping mall with food places in the basement. Food places include a Vietnamese Pho place, Japanese curry place, KFC and Subway.
6. Jenny Lou’s – Inside Jenny Lou’s near the delicatessen counters you can buy Subway style sandwiches for a slightly cheaper price than Subway.
7. Subway – Standard fare as available in Western countries.
8. The Village – The Village has many restaurants, most around RMB40 and up for a meal. Recommended restaurants include: Blue Frog (Half price burgers on Mondays, and two for one drinks), Ganges (good Indian).
9. Fried dumplings / noodles restaurant – Behind the supermarket
10. Duck restaurant – The gan bian si ji dou and eggplant/onions/tomatoes dish (22 kuai?) are great.
11. Hotpot restaurant – Individual hotpots for each person.
12. Sichuan restaurant – Does a good Yuxiang Eggplant.
13. Xinjiang restaurant – The leafy interior is reminiscent of the beautiful streets of Turpan, Xinjiang.
14. Milk tea place – best we’ve seen in Dongzhimen. Try the Coconut and the Peach!
15. Fish hot pot 
16. Korean restaurant
17. Arabic restaurant
18. Greek restaurant
19. In and Out – Yunnanese restaurant, the pineapple rice is delicious.
20. Flat White – NZ owned café, serves good coffee and lunches.
21. Lau Pa Sak – Good Malaysian food
22. Backyard Café - Good for healthy sandwiches, smoothies. 

b)     Locations and map of some dining places in Inner Beijing  

1. Chicken wings place – Does really good Chicken Wings in normal, spicy, wine and garlic flavours, Kao Bao Zi and Guo Tie are awesome as well.

2. Dumplings place – This roadside dumplings place offers good cheap dumplings.

3. Xinjiang restaurant

4. Vegetarian restaurant – All you can eat vegetarian restaurant, RMB70ish a head. Large selection of faux meats. Great ice cream!

5. Dali Courtyard – Yunnanese food, RMB 100 - 200 a head. Set menu including fish, seafood.

c)    Locations and map of some dining places in Northern Beijing (Near Huixinxijie Nankou)

1. Duck place
2. Noodles restaurant
3. Hamburger Pub – Pub that does decent RMB20 hamburgers.

4. Korean place – cheap good Korean place (RMB10-12 a dish).