This is the entrance to a traditional "hutong" or old classic style restaurant in Beijing. It's a brick courtyard in which an open kitchen with huge "kawa" or chinese cooking pots are simmering with braised dishes in classic sze chuan red stews. Everything was very spicy and rich. Excellent winter or cold climate food.
Braised Carp in a red stewing sauce.
Sliced firm tofu, meatballs and beef innards stewed in a red stewing sauce.
Another braised meat dish in red sauce.
Boiled ox tail stuffed with chopped beef fat. Try it once. Forget it forever. Too rich and no flavor at all.
Wang Fu Jing is a main trourist attraction near the Tiananmen Square. It features an endless array of street food from grilled seafoods, noodles in soup, hundreds of different kinds of tofu, an assortment of seafood balls and lastly...SCORPION. Sorry, I didn't have the balls to try it. No regrets.
More BBQ dishes.
XIAO LUNG PAO!! The infamous soupy dumplings in Wang Fu Jing. Good and cheap!
Sharks Fin Soup with Fish Maw and Sea Cucumber - it's not politically correct. Still good though. Really bad guilt feeling in the stomach when your eating it.
Mongolian Style BBQ - not the ones we see at the mall. Lamb Meat skewers with cumin. This is really good and tasty. The lamb and the cumin rub is a match in heaven. I must've eaten 10 sticks.
Apologies to my mother-in-law, this Xiao Lung Bao or steamed soupy dumplings is the best I've ever eaten. It's in an alley right beside the Silk Road Shopping Center. It cost like .50$ or fifty cents or around P24.00. For all 10 pieces!!! I can go back to Beijing just for this!!
The Xiao Lung Bao master!!!
Making the Xiao Lung bao dumpling skins.
Beijing Hotot! This looks more than it seems. It really felt that we we were served a little garden here!!
The Beef!!! The vegetable set and the beef set costs only P1200. It is a lot. It can serve 3 to 4 persons.
FREE LAMB! We were lucky to avail of the promo that the restaurant was offering. Free lamb for every order of the meat set. More meat! More fun!!
The Beef Set!
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The Chinese Mitten Hairy Crab. One of China's most prized culinary delicacies. Very expensive and also very good. Cooked simply steamed. It is very different from the Filipino freshwater crab or the "alimango". It doesn't have the sweet meat that the alimango has. The chinese hairy crab is more famous for the amount of the creamy roe that is in its carapace or head. So good! So rich!
Duck Hot Pot. Very Unique. Rich duck broth with assorted duck parts being boiled. Similar to Hot Pot but a tad richer. Only meat, assortment of mushrooms and hand pulled boodles is served with it. Very acquired taste.
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