Beijing Restaurants
Of course distinctive cuisines from western and Asian countries can also offer you delicious dishes to enjoy.
Best Chinese Restaurants in Beijing
Anhui: Short for Hui cai (also known as Wan cai), Anhui Cuisine is the label given to local dishes in Anhui Province.
Cantonese: There are lots of excellent, non-scary Guangdong dishes - the seafood being especially tasty.
Chaozhou: As one of the three branches of Guangdong Cuisine, it has some similarities with Guangdong dishes, such as its light and fresh flavor.
Dongbei: It is a great style of food to have in winter, usually composed of large quantities of meat in thick, fairly salty sauces and heavily featured by potatoes.
Fujian: Based on seafood, Fujian Cuisine (Min cai) has salt, sweet, sour and hot flavors, using a wide range of seasonings.
Huaiyang: Huaiyang cai is the famous cuisine of the Middle and Lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which can be called the noble dishes in Chinese Cuisines.
Hunan: Definitely well-known as spicy as Sichuan Cuisine, Xiang cai (Huanan Cuisine) has totally different spicy taste that can be told by its recommended samplings.
Jiangsu: Also known as Su cai originated in the Northern and Southern Dynasties (386-589), Jiangsu Cuisine is enjoyed by people around the country for its sweet flavor.
Shaanxi: With a history over 5,000 years and seen as the most ancient cuisine all over the country, wheaten food is the highlight part of Shaanxi Cuisines.
Shandong: Shandong Cuisine, also known as Lu cai, is made up cuisines of Jiaozhou (mainly the seafood) from the coast, Jinan from inlandand Kongfu, tasting somewhat salty.
Shanghai: Shanghai Cai, also called Ben Bang Cai, is originally derived from the homely dishes, so it looks a littler simpler than the delicate Cantonese Cuisine.
Shanxi: No other Chinese cuisine pays as much attention to staple food as Shanxi Cuisine which is excel at making noodles.
Sichuan: Sichuan Cuisine (Chuan cai) are everywhere to be seen, tasting hot and spicy from the use of hot peppers and strong seasonings.
Xinjiang: The Uygurs are a Muslim group from Xinjiang in the Northwest. There are Uygurs all over the city selling lamb shish kebob and local snacks, specialities.
Zhejiang: Composed by the dishes in Hangzhou, Ningbo and Shaoxing, Zhe cai (Zhejiang Cuisine) is an important part in Chinese Cuisine with a history over 2,000 years.
Foreign Restaurants in Beijing
Asian Restaurants: The main Asian restaurants include Japanese, Korean, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian & Malaysian flavors. They provide delicious and authentic foods in nearby Asian countries.
Western Restaurants: American, Brazilian, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Swiss restaurants win high popularity in Beijing. Besides, tourists can easily find western-style fast food chains like KFC, Mcdonald's, Pizza Hut, Burger King, Papa John's Pizza, Traktirr Pushkin and Hopfenstube.