Beijing Part 3 - Food

Every place will have their local food, specialties and attractions.

In Beijing, one of the most famous one is of course the Beijing Steamboat. The pot looks like this. It will contain the Charcoal in the middle of the pot. NOTHING at the base of the pot and you cool all these using the heat from the charcoal, boiling the soup around it.

This is one of the famous Steamboat restaurant in WangFuJin Street. This restaurant is even more special as it serves Halal food for Muslims. (Click to enlarge picture)

Just near the street is WangFuJin's and Beijing's most famous hawker street. You can walk along this near 1 mile row of stall and choose from the many variety of goodies to eat.

BBQ ? Well, it is more like Satay.. but with 'special' stuff. From bottom, you can see Pig's Liver, Then Chicken Heart, the brown one is Cocoon of some big bug and the top most are squids. Heheheh

Here's some good ones. These are little Chicken which are not hatch yet. It was taken out from the egg the last few days before it hatched and made into snacks. I did not taste any of these during this trip as Bird Flu is at large now. Kinda scared but curious at the same time.

(The white one in the middle) Frog on a stick anyone ? The one on the left looked like friend Worms... hahaha.. the one on the right are just harmless cuttlefish.

If you feel that is weird, look at these.... Dried Lizards on a tick.. and Starfish too. :) hehehe.

In Beijing, the most famous food of all will be the Beijing Roast Duck. Here is one of the restaurant. I did not enter for a few reasons : 1) Bird Flu (remember?) 2) I heard it is very expensive 3) 1 person would not be able to finish 1 duck alone. So... I did not tasted any in Beijing. But I sure did that in Dalian.

Well.. that's about all on my discovery of Beijing Food... I will be visiting Beijing again one day. This time.. I will make sure I catch the Great Wall of China :)

Anyway.. My next trip out of Dalian will be to QingTao in May. Will update those for you guys too.