Figure out what to eat in Beijing. This Beijing food list has the top Beijing dishes and snacks with prescribed cafés and regions to think that they are in.

Except for Beijing’s most popular culinary product, Peking duck, the majority of the city’s most well known dishes have been taken on from encompassing regions. No matter what their starting point, the accompanying dishes are all currently completely imbued in Beijing life and can be examined at cafés all through the city.

1. Beijing Roast Duck

Beijing cook duck, or Peking duck, is the exemplification of Beijing food and the dish you should attempt while visiting Beijing. The dish is for the most part regarded for the dainty, firm skin, with genuine renditions of the dish serving for the most part skin and little meat.

While sauces and backups will change between cafés (the most well-known being scallion and cucumber) turning out badly with cook duck in Beijing is troublesome. In the event that you eat at one of Beijing’s more renowned duck cafés it will likewise be joined by a short exhibit on the right method for gathering a Peking duck wrap utilizing chopsticks.

• Chinese: 北京烤鸭 Běijīng kǎoyā /bay-jing kaow-yaa/)
• Restaurant recommendation: Da Dong Duck Restaurant (大董烤鸭)
• Address: F6 Wangfu Mall, 301 Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing 北京市东城区王府井大街301号王府商厦F6
• Price: CN¥198 for a whole duck (feeds 3/4)

2. Jiaozi — Chinese Dumplings

Jiaozi is another dish that can be found anyplace across Beijing.

While there are various better-known dumpling cafés and chains, the absolute most delectable dumplings (and most fascinating encounters) can be found in more modest, less prominent family diners where dumplings are the main thing on the menu. At these cafés you can frequently sit and watch the following bunch of dumplings being rolled and filled as you eat.

A plate of Jiaozi with a soy sauce, vinegar and stew plunge is inseparable from Northern Chinese food.

• Chinese: (饺子 jiǎozi /jyaow-dzuh/)
• Restaurant recommendation: Mr Shi’s Dumplings (老石水饺)
• Address: 88 Baochao Hutong, Gulou Dong Dajie 东城区鼓楼东大街, 宝钞胡同88号
• Price: CN¥20–30/plate (15 jiaozi)

3. Jing Jiang Rousi — Shredded Pork in Beijing Sauce

Jing jiang rousi is another dish unimaginably well known with nearby Beijingers, and dissimilar to a considerable lot of the city’s other famous dishes, it began in the capital. Its ubiquity might come from its straightforwardness: cut pork cooked in a sweet bean sauce, presented with soy bean wraps. Jing jiang rousi is an important part of any true Beijing feasting experience.

• Chinese: 京酱肉丝 (jīng jiàng ròusī /jing jyang roh-srr/)
• Restaurant recommendation: Jin Ding Xuan Restaurant (金鼎轩)
• Address: 77 Hepingli Street, Dongcheng District 北京市东城区和平里西街77号
• Price: CN¥60/person (for an entire meal)

4. Noodles with Soybean Paste — Zhajiang Mian

Zhajiang mian is extremely famous with regards to conventional Beijing food, and is once in a while alluded to just as ‘Beijing noodles’.

It has three principal fixings: wide hand-pulled noodles, vegetable pieces, and pork. Vegetables change occasionally, yet there are never under seven sorts. It is an ideal noon nibble for guests in a rush as it is normally prepared seconds after you request. To really sweeten the deal it is extremely modest.

• Chinese: 炸酱面 (zhájiàng miàn /jaa-jyang myen/ ‘fried-sauce noodles’)
• Restaurant recommendation: Old Beijing Zhajiang Noodle King (老北京炸酱面大王)
• Address: 56 Dong Xinglongjie, Dongcheng District 东城区东兴隆街56号
• Price: CN¥15

5. Mongolian Hotpot

Mongolian hotpot, a dish that is history goes back more than 1,000 years, is as much about the happiness regarding the cooking as it is the taste.

Customary hotpot feasts include lounging around a huge pot of bubbling soup, in which you cook your own food. Albeit Mongolian hotpot normally includes a lot of sheep, quite a few meats, vegetables, and breads are accessible. These are cut slim to guarantee they cook rapidly and uniformly.

This northern-Chinese style of hotpot utilizes a soup that is less zesty and by and large less seasoned than its southern partners, with more accentuation being put on the fixings that are cooked as opposed to what they are cooked in.

• Chinese: 蒙古火锅 (Ménggǔ huǒguō /mnng-goo hwor-gwor/)
• Restaurant recommendation: Dong Lai Shun (东来顺)
• Address: 91 Tiantan Road, Dongcheng District 市东城区天坛路91号
• Price: CN¥140/person (for an entire meal)

6. Donkey Burgers

Starting in the city of Baoding in northern Hebei Area, Beijing has taken on the jackass burger similar to possess. Cafés offering this dish serve various different jackass dinners, but the one to attempt is the jackass burger. Destroyed jackass meat is served in a steaming hot, crunchy bun with a green pepper relish.

The difference between the delicious meat, crunchy bun, and sweet relish make it inconceivably scrumptious and you are probably not going to stop at one. Pay special attention to a major 驴肉 (‘jackass meat’) sign plainly noticeable on the facade of all cafés offering this food.

• Chinese: 驴肉火烧 (lǘròu huǒshāo /lyoo-roh hwor-shaow/)
• Restaurant recommendation: Wang Pangzi (王胖子)
• Address: 76 Gulou Xidajie, Xicheng District 鼓楼西大街76号
• Price: CN¥10–12/burger

7. Dry Wok Potato Wedges

The exacting interpretation of this dish — ‘dry wok potato wedges’ — gives cafes a genuinely precise suggestion of what’s in store.

Cuts of potato, firm pork, and chilies stew in an iron pot sat on an open fire. As you are managing the basics, the bed of cut onions that is concealed under leisurely caramelizes in oil, passing on you with a scrumptious nibble to complete your feast on.

It is a dish best delighted in during the colder months, however is famous with local people throughout the entire year.

• Chinese: 干锅土豆片 (gàn guō tǔdòu piàn /gan gwor too-doh pyen/)
• Restaurant recommendation: Any of the rows of restaurants along Ghost Street will serve this dish. It is best enjoyed as part of a larger meal, so it is recommended that you choose a restaurant along this street that serves other dishes you are interested in.
• Address: Ghost Street (Dongzhimen Nei Dajie, Chaoyang District) 鬼街（东直门内大街）
• Price: CN¥18–30

8. Tudou Si — Shredded Potato

This dish is one more incredible choice for potato sweethearts. Daintily destroyed potatoes are sautéed with green peppers and preparing and can be served hot or cold. Try not to be tricked by the plain look of the potatoes as they are covered in a sweet sparkle which give the dish its flavor.

• Chinese: 土豆丝 (tǔdòu sī /too-doh srr/)
• Restaurant recommendation: Shijin Yuan (十锦园）
• Address: 13 Sanlitun, Chaoyang District 朝阳区三里屯13号
• Price: CN¥15

9. Rolling Donkey

Not at all like the jackass sandwich, this dish doesn’t really contain meat of any sort, not to mention jackass. Moving jackass alludes to a sort of conventional Beijing nibble with a delicate skin made of glutinous rice flour and a red bean stuffing, likewise referred to in southern China as ‘moving pony’ (马打滚 mǎ dǎgǔn).

• Chinese: 驴打滚 (lǘ dǎgǔn /lyoo daa-gwnn/)
• Restaurant recommendation: Bai Ji Niangao (白记年糕)
• Address: 1/F, Niu Jie Halal Supermarket, 5 Niu Jie, Xicheng District 西城区牛街5号牛街清真超市1楼
• Price: CN¥20/500g

10. Tuckahoe Pie

Tuckahoe pie is a conventional paper-dainty nibble looking like a full moon, which is famous in Beijing. It comprises of a fundamental flapjack enveloped by sugar, honey, and a collection of nuts.

As per a legend, tuckahoe pie started in the Southern Melody Line (1127-1279), and the readiness strategy and the expected hardware are proven and factual. The spice tuckahoe has numerous restorative properties, and in this way it is famous with Chinese individuals, particularly ladies and the old.

• Chinese: 茯苓夹饼 (fúlíng jiābǐng /foo-ling jyaa-bing/)
• Recommended eateries: Multiple food stalls and shops can be found along Wangfujing Snack Street (王府井小吃街) selling this snack and many other Beijing snack streets.
• Price: CN¥25/box

11. Tanghulu — Candied Fruit on a Stick

Tanghulu, the “Chinese toffee apple”, is an old Beijing-style dessert comprising of a stick with natural products plunged in fluid sugar then dried. They are around 20 cm (8″) long and incorporate numerous sorts of organic products covered in sugar, like crabapples, kiwis, cherries, tomatoes, pineapples, grapes, strawberries, etc. At the point when you nibble into a tanghulu, it has a brilliant crunch!

In Beijing, they are not difficult to purchase from trucks by the side of the road, and are well known with kids.

• Chinese: 糖葫芦 (tánghúlu /tung-hoo-loo/)
• Restaurant recommendation: Ma Ji Tanghulu
• Address: 1/F, Niu Jie Halal Supermarket, 5 Niu Jie, Xicheng District 西城区牛街5号牛街清真超市1楼
• Price: CN¥10/stick

12. Wandou Huang — Pea Flour Cake

Pea flour cake is a customary nibble from Beijing. It is made of white peas. It used to be a royal bite, and was one of Head Dame Cixi’s top picks. It has a yellow look, with a fine and smooth surface that melts in the mouth. Local people for the most part eat it in spring.

• Chinese: 豌豆黄 (wāndòu huáng /wan-doh hwung/ ‘pea yellow’)
• Restaurant recommendation: Bai Ji Niangao (白记年糕)
• Address: 1/F, Niu Jie Halal Supermarket, 5 Niu Jie, Xicheng District 西城区牛街5号牛街清真超市1楼
• Price: CN¥20/500g

13. Aiwowo — Glutinous Rice Balls

Aiwowo is a customary sweet with a long history. It used to be filled in as a regal food. Its skins are made of glutinous rice flour, and the different stuffings are reasonable for all ages and tastes. They incorporate pecans, sesame seeds, melon seeds, sweet potato glue, and other normal fixings.

• Chinese: 艾窝窝 (àiwōwo /eye-wor-wor/ ‘wormwood nests’)
• Restaurant recommendation: Huguo Temple Snack shop (护国寺小吃)
• Address: About 100 m east of Huguo Temple Hotel; 68 Huguosi Street, Xicheng District 西城区护国寺街68号，护国寺宾馆东侧约100米
• Price: CN¥3/each

14. Dalian Huoshao — Fried Pancakes with Fillings

The historical backdrop of this food traces all the way back to 1876. Local people for the most part have dalian huoshao for breakfast. These rotisserie rolls of wheaten batter loaded up with minced pork and vegetables taste like broiled dumplings, yet all at once more succulent.

• Chinese: 褡裢火烧 (dālián huǒshāo /daa-lyen hwor-shao/ ‘cloth-pouch fried’)
• Restaurant recommendation: Furongju Restaurant (福荣居褡裢火烧)
• Address: 143 Dongsi North Street, Dongcheng District 市东城区东四北大街143号
• Price: CN¥3/each

15. Zhizi Kaorou — Iron Grid Barbecue

A zhizi is an iron plate made of iron poles, which can be warmed and utilized for cooking, so the overabundance fat of the grill trickles away through the holes. It is principally utilized for halal hamburger and sheep.

The kindling for the grill is basically fragrant wood, like pine, jujube, pear, and other organic product trees’, so the smell is granted into the meat. Side dishes are generally green onions and coriander.

• Chinese: 炙子烤肉 (zhìzǐ kǎoròu /jrr-dzuh kao-roh/ ‘BBQ grid roast meat’)
• Restaurant recommendation: Houwei Ju Old Beijing Zhizi Barbecue (厚味居炙子烤肉)
• Address: 11 Guang’anmen Bus Station West Street, Xicheng District 西城区广安门车站西街甲11号
• Price: CN¥120/person