Barbecued Meat
Barbecued Meat is a Manchu food. Meat, mainly beef or mutton, is cut into thin strips or slices, and then soaked in a mixture of soy sauce, crushed ginger, wine, shrimp paste, sesame seed paste, rice vinegar and chopped coriander. The meat is then barbecued over a highly-heated grill before it is served.

Court Cuisine

Fangshan (Imperial-style) Restaurant sits on the island in Beihai Park in a traditional courtyard facing the lake. A newly-opened branch of restaurant of Fangshan style, Yushan Restaurant, is located a few hundred yards to the west of the north gate of the Temple of Heaven in the southern part of the city. Tingliguan (Hall for Listening to the Orioles) Restaurant, in the Summer Palace, serves more than 300 dishes and pastries from the Qing and Ming imperial recipes. The All-fish Feast is a specialty of the restaurant.

Mongolian Hot-pot
The hot-pot is a traditional brass pot with a wide outer rim around a chimney and a charcoal-burner underneath. Water is heated to boiling point in the rim, and the diners dip thin slices of raw meat in the water, where the meat cooks quickly. The cooked slices are then dipped in to a sauce. There are vegetables, bean noodles, mushrooms and bean curt to be boiled in the rim as well. The sauce is prepared personally by the diner by selecting from a few dozen kinds to suit his/her own taste. The traditional food to accompany the hot-pot is buns or noodles.

Snack
The classic Beijing breakfast snack sold by street vendors is definitely worth trying - vegetables wrapped in an omelette wrapped in a pancake - deftly made in thirty seconds . Most hotels offer some form of Western breakfast, with the best choice offered by the cheap backpacker restaurants - easily the best of these is the Friendship Restaurant in the car park of the Jinghua Hotel (phone 67222211).

Beijing Roast Duck
Beijing duck consists of small pieces of meat which you dip in plum sauce, then wrap with chopped onions in a pancake. The famous Beijing Roast Duck restaurant in Beijing are Quanjude (Complete Collection of Virtues), having a history of 400 years. The main branches of Quanjude: