Food is one of the essential parts for your China Tour. As the old saying in China, Food is what matters to the people (民以食为天, mín yǐ shí wéi tiān). China food has a long kind history, and its culture and flavor now is spreading to the whole planet. If you come to Sichuan, a southwestern province in China, you will enjoy the hottest and spicy food with all kind of spices. If you come to Shanghai, the biggest city laid on the east coast of China, you will experience the dark-sauce but sweet flavor. What if you want to try the famous Roast Duck, and millions of snack, just plan a Beijing Tour, come to China’s capital!
There will be totally two different routes to experience Beijing food, Cuisine and snacks.
Peking Cuisine
Roast Duck and Beijing Hot Pot is the must-eat thing. A restaurant call Quan Ju De (全聚德in Chinese ) is famous for itsRoastDuck and duck dishes. Peking Roast Duck is a famous duck dish from Beijing that has been prepared since the imperial era, and is now considered one of China’s national foods. The dish is prized for the thin, crispy skin, with authentic versions of the dish serving mostly the skin and little meat, sliced in front of the diners by the cook. Ducks bred specially for the dish are slaughtered after 65 days and seasoned before being roasted in a closed or hung oven. The meat is often eaten with a leavened, oven-baked flatbread, spring onions, and hoisin sauce or sweet bean sauce.
Zha jiang mian is anorthern Chinese dish consisting of thick wheat noodles topped with a mixture of ground pork stir-fried with Zha jiang, which is salty fermented soybean paste. In Beijing cuisine, yellow soybean paste with soy sauce is used, while in Tianjin and other parts of China sweet bean sauce. In the cuisines of Beijing, Tianjin, and northeastern China, the soybean paste is stir fried and oil is not used.
Some Chinese restaurants may refer to zha jiang mian as “brown meat sauce noodles,” “noodles with fried bean and meat sauce,” or the pinyin transliteration zha jiang mian. It is sometimes referred to by the nickname “Chinesespaghetti” in the West, which is symmetrical to Chinese calling spaghetti bolognese “Western zha jiang mian.”
Snack and Street-side food
Málàtàng seems to be more of a magnet than most other highly addictive street food. Most likely it’s because of the number of
choices you get. Shrimp, fish balls, tofu, bean curd, lotus root, mushrooms, chicken, beef tendon, noodles, and much more get cooked in a pot of steaming broth laced with Sichuan peppers and sesame oil. You get a plate or take-out container and make your selection either blindly or informed, by asking nicely and trying to remember if there’s a chapter on animal parts in your phrasebook. No matter, because everything is cooked through and more often than not, delicious. At 1 RMB or 50 jiao per skewer, you can have a light snack for 3 RMB or stuff yourself for 10 RMB.
Beijing is really a city which full of energy. People are passing by for fight for their future with all kind of dreams. When you come to Beijing, just stop to try everything delicious, and full of Beijing smell. You will enjoy your Beijing Tour, and remarkable experience.
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