I am a foodie. In my spare time, I am determined to travel all over the famous mountains and rivers of the motherland and eat snacks from all over the country, so I will come to Beijing for a stroll on weekends.
Accommodation: Unnamed Hotel Nanluoguxiang Branch
In the dazzling array of shops in Nanluo Ancient Lane, next to Starbucks, there is the largest popcorn factory in China. The rooms are also very spacious and bright, a hotel that is very suitable for living.
Day 1: Near Nanluoguxiang
Nanluoguxiang and its surrounding areas used to be the center of the Yuan Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was a place of wealth and wealth. Now it is an alley full of commercial atmosphere. There are all kinds of small shops on both sides, selling snacks, drinks, postcards, and all kinds of things, so lively.
Tips: Nanluoguxiang is very close to Yandai Xiejie and Shichahai, so we can play together.
If you are interested, you can visit the relatively quiet alleys, which is very interesting.
Ice cream is not cheap, ranging from 10-20 yuan a piece, the taste is not bad, but not as amazing as Wu Yutai's ice cream!
Madier has many branches in Beijing, students who want to eat can pay attention!
Everyone must be looking forward to the "nude photos" of ice cream! I'm sorry, I didn't shoot it alone, so I won't release it!
Wenyu Cheese Shop (Nanluoguxiang)
It's a well-known restaurant, and it tastes like the dessert shop in Shanghai. Beijingers probably like dairy products very much. There are many cheese shops, such as Wenyu Cheese Shop, Sanyuan Meiyuan Cheese Shop, etc., and the taste is similar.
The business is very good, I guess they all come here for the name, the refrigerator is full of dairy products, do the staff here also have a smell of milk?
On the left is cheese, on the right is mango double skin milk, haha, I still like to have fruit! It is recommended to buy products with added fruits!
Literary Examination Wing Bar
I found a restaurant in a small alley. I thought I wanted to eat grilled brains, so I didn’t order more. I ordered two grilled fins and one grilled fish tofu, but the boss told me that the order was too small to eat, so I had to take it away. However, the two had no choice but to settle it on the spot in the alley. There are many wing bars in Beijing, and there are many flavors of grilled wings, but it is a pity that the chicken wings are too small, and I always feel that the taste is not plump enough.
Forgive me for not taking pictures of the packaged food, but I took the menu for everyone to remember. In the store, I saw a big brother with a flushed face drinking beer. After asking, I found out that the big brother ordered spicy wings with soybean paste. Don’t look at him being so spicy, he strongly recommends it to me!
brain factory
In order to make up for the regret of not eating brains yesterday, I specially came to this store to eat roasted brains. Since I have never eaten authentic Sichuan roasted brains, I think it is still delicious. A set meal has three brains + rice, which are the signature flavor, spicy flavor and black bean flavor. It is still delicious, more fragrant than spicy, and has a dense taste. It’s just that after eating so many brains, I feel alive My liver is complaining, is it one step closer to fatty liver?
Brain flower must be eaten while it is hot, it will be fishy when it is cold!
Yandai Xiejie
A very popular street near Shichahai. There are shops selling commodities on the street, with a strong commercial atmosphere. I happened to meet a small cartoon exhibition, which was a cartoonist’s memory of Beijing’s hutong life when I was a child, such as catching small goldfish, eating candied haws, singing nursery rhymes, etc. I also met an enthusiastic old man who sang the nursery rhyme “Buffalo” to me. The buffalo first protrudes its horns and then its head", this is a pure and strong Beijing flavor, praise!
Yandai Xiejie is obviously hot, so it’s much hotter! You can walk to Shichahai through the path.
Candy blowers are very rare in Shanghai, but I always feel that they are full of breath and saliva, so I dare not try.
Prince Gong's Mansion
Prince Gong’s Mansion is the residence of Heshen in the Qing Dynasty. The ancients paid great attention to Fengshui when building houses and gardens. It is said that there are two dragon veins in Beijing. One is the earth dragon, which is the dragon vein of the Forbidden City; It is just on the connecting line between Houhai and Beihai, that is, on the dragon vein, so Fengshui is very good. It is said that Prince Kung’s Mansion was designed by He Shen himself, and he spent a lot of thought in many places. It is recommended that friends who travel independently should visit the tour guide, and you can learn many wonderful stories!
He Shen’s Treasure Pavilion does not need other people to take care of it, but what treasures are stored in it, how does He Shen distinguish it? He distinguishes it through different window grids at the back of the house. Different window shapes represent different collections , there are as many as 18 rooms in the treasure pavilion on the upper and lower floors.
The house under the sunset is quiet and mysterious.
The only remaining Western Gate is said to be similar to the Western Gate in the Old Summer Palace before it was burned down.
Dragon King Temple
After visiting Prince Gong’s Mansion, I went to look for food on the ground. The courtyard of Prince Gong’s Mansion is large and has good feng shui, just like He Shen’s life. The Heshen family is still extinct. The Feng Shui in the yard is excellent, but why did the excellent Feng Shui fail in the end? This is worth reflecting on, not the best Feng Shui is the most suitable Feng Shui!
Fatty Wang Donkey Meat Roasted
Before coming to Beijing, I heard the restaurant highly recommended by my colleagues. His donkey meat fire must be eaten.
The appearance of this fire is much different from the previous fire. This is the appearance of a half cut. The donkey meat is marinated and a little salty. In fact, I think that if a little vegetable is added, the taste will be more layered.
The donkey meat pot is also a bit salty, but overall it is good. However, the taste in Beijing is quite salty, so you can remind the restaurant appropriately!
I made an appointment with my friends to eat authentic Peking duck, haha! Now let’s talk about Bianyifang and Quanjude. This is what I only knew when I was writing my travel notes. Let me share it with you.
In the early Ming Dynasty, common people loved to eat Nanjing salted duck, and the emperor also loved it. It is said that Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang had "a roast duck in a solar eclipse". The imperial chefs in the palace tried their best to develop new ways to eat duck dishes to please the Lord Long Live, so they developed two kinds of roasted duck with skewers and roasted duck with stewed oven. Fork-roasted duck is represented by "Quanjude", while braised oven-roasted duck is most famously known as "Bianyifang".
Quanjude adopts the method of roasting in a hanging oven and does not open the duck. Only a small hole is made on the duck, the internal organs are taken out, and boiling water is poured into the belly of the duck, and then the small hole is tied up and hung on the fire to roast. This method not only prevents the duck from dehydration due to roasting, but also prevents the skin of the duck from being roasted soft. The roasted duck skin is very thin and crisp, which becomes the most delicious part of the roast duck. The hanging furnace has a furnace hole but no furnace door. It uses fruit wood such as jujube wood and pear wood as fuel, and uses an open flame. When the fruit wood is fired, there is no smoke, the bottom fire is strong, and the burning time is long. The roasted duck is plump in appearance, maroon in color, crispy in skin, charred on the outside and tender in the inside, with a fragrance of fruit wood, which tastes even more wonderful when tasted carefully. Strictly speaking, only this roasting method is called Peking duck.
The method of "steaming furnace" in Bianyifang is actually a kind of ground furnace. The body of the furnace is made of bricks, and the size is about one meter square. Its production method was first introduced to Beijing from the south. It is characterized by "the duck does not see an open fire". Because of the need to use a dark fire, high technology is required. The person in charge of the furnace must control the temperature in the furnace. If the temperature is too high, the duck will be burnt, otherwise the duck will not be cooked. Braised oven-roasted duck has a bright and crispy skin, white, tender meat and delicious taste. Stewing oven roast duck is the signature of Bianyifang, but the stewing oven for burning sorghum stalks has long been changed to an electric stewing oven. Nowadays, there are very few roast duck restaurants that use stewing ovens, and most roast duck restaurants use the Quanjude hanging oven roasting method. The braised oven-roasted duck tastes more tender, and the juice of the duck skin is obviously fuller and fuller. The fragrance of fruit and wood in the hanging oven roast duck seems to make people appreciate the wisdom of the "roasting" cooking method first mastered by human beings.
Dadong Roast Duck Restaurant (a little less famous than the above two, but also very delicious), is diagonally opposite the Jingguang Center. The dishes are very particular. They are really roasted with apple wood, and the taste and texture are undeniable.
Let’s talk about the three ways to eat Peking duck:
The first way to eat: It is said that it was started by the ladies in the mansion gate. They don't eat shallots or garlic, but they like to eat the crispy duck skin dipped in fine sugar. From then on, whenever Quanjude's waiter saw a female guest, they would definitely follow the roast duck and serve a small plate of sugar.
The second way to eat: sweet noodle sauce with scallions, can be served with cucumber and radish sticks, use chopsticks to pick up a little sweet noodle sauce, spread it on the lotus leaf cake, put a few slices of roast duck on it, and then put a few scallions and cucumber sticks Or radish strips, the lotus leaf cake is rolled up, it is really delicious.
The third way to eat: mashed garlic with sweet noodle sauce, can also be served with radish strips, etc. Rolling duck meat with lotus leaf cake is also a popular condiment in the early years. Garlic can relieve greasy. Dip the sliced roast duck with garlic and sweet noodle sauce to add a touch of spiciness to the fresh aroma and make it more unique. Many customers especially prefer this condiment.
There are two types of Bianyifang Roast Duck, 1416 is the original flavor, and the other is the flower flavor, since you are here, you must eat the signature. The reason why it is called 1416 is because Bianyifang was founded in the 14th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 1416 AD. This is half a roast duck. It looks very small. Half a roast duck does not include side dishes such as pancakes, sauces, green onions, etc., and needs to be purchased additionally. If you buy a whole duck, you will get free side dishes and a duck stand.
Let’s talk about the taste. It’s different from Shanghai. Many restaurants in Shanghai only slice the duck skin to wrap the cake. The skin of Beijing roast duck comes with meat, so it won’t feel greasy. It’s good to eat alone. eat. The duck skin is crispy, not the thin crispness of potato chips. Please pay attention to the word "crispy". It feels a solid crispness like biting lard residue, but it is not greasy. You can clearly feel the duck in the mouth. The aroma brought by the skin, the meat is very tender, and the crust is very thin. You must eat it while it is hot. You can feel the crispy, tender and soft texture, plus the refreshingness of cucumber, the strong flavor of Beijing green onion, and the rich sauce. Happiness Feeling overwhelmed! Absolutely extraordinary ha!
Mustard duck feet, boneless duck feet mixed with mustard and other seasonings, are not the same as imagined, not mustard sauce, but mustard powder, the taste is not as strong as mustard sauce, it is softer, and the duck feet are processed very well , no weird "beriberi" taste. O(∩_∩)O~
The three people at the next table entered the store without looking at the menu. They ordered half a roast duck and three bowls of noodles, so I was curious about how delicious the noodles were. In fact, it is tomato spinach noodles. The taste is inexperienced, but for me who was shivering from the cold at that time, it was still very comfortable!
It is definitely enough for two little girls to order this dish. I also have a male friend who ate a whole roast duck alone. The duck rack is boiled in soup and duck feet with mustard are added. If you think you have a good appetite, you can try it Oh!
the next day
I originally wanted to go to the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall and the National Museum, but Xi Jinping went to the Monument to the People's Heroes early in the morning to lay flowers. Tiananmen Square was under martial law and was not allowed to enter, so I had to advance the rest of the itinerary!
Lama Temple
Lama Temple is a Buddhist temple with the highest standard in the country in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. Yongzheng passed away in the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, and the coffin was parked here. Therefore, the original green glazed tiles of the main hall of Lama Temple were changed to yellow glazed tiles. And because Emperor Qianlong was born here, two emperors came out of Lama Temple, which became the "Longqian blessed place". There are many beautiful Buddha statues and thangkas in Lama Temple, so you can take a closer look.
The most interesting thing is that when I got out of the subway, I met Marie, a Danish student who came to travel, but I couldn't find the Lama Temple. I happened to come to the map to figure out the route, so the two of them happily toured together. Marie likes China very much. She came to Beijing to study calligraphy and Chinese during her vacation. She said that she especially likes Chinese temples, which are colorful and beautiful. At the same time, she likes to experience the atmosphere and culture of China. The next stop is Nanjing and Hefei. We communicated in half English and half Chinese throughout the trip. She completely understood what I said. I was so touched. Besides, how can I explain all kinds of strange things in the temple clearly? I know what it means. When we parted, Marie gave me a Danish 5 yuan coin as a souvenir. I also wrote a postcard and sent it from Shanghai to Denmark. I hope she can receive it smoothly!
Wu Yutai Ice Cream Cone (Lama Temple Street Store)
Founded in 1887, Wu Yutai is a famous tea shop in Beijing. I learned about their ice cream in other travel notes, so I thought I must try it. There are two flavors of ice cream, one is matcha and the other is scented tea. The scented tea flavor I ate for the first time is jasmine flavor. It looks like it has finely crushed tea leaves on the outside. It really has a strong tea flavor and is full of fragrance. I tried matcha in the next few days. Maybe there are too many matcha flavors on the market, and I don’t think it’s particularly amazing. Compared with it, I still think scented tea is better. Other shops will also sell some drinks, if you are interested, you can try it.
Confucian Temple
Along the path opposite Lama Temple, you can walk to Guozijian, where the Confucian Temple is located. The Confucian Temple is the place where Confucius was worshiped in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in China. It is also known as the four major Confucian temples in China together with the Nanjing Confucian Temple, the Jilin Confucian Temple and the Qufu Confucian Temple. Inside the Confucian Temple, there are 198 steles inscribed by Jinshi from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and you can find the works of many celebrities.
Guozijian
Guozijian (jian fourth tone) is the central official school after the Sui Dynasty in ancient China. It is the highest institution in the ancient Chinese education system, also known as Guozixue or Guozi Temple. The Imperial College is large and quiet. You can imagine how countless students studied and took exams here. I think today’s college entrance examination and postgraduate entrance examination are the imperial examination system in a different direction. However, there are too many people who have obtained certificates, so it is no longer possible to allocate them to students. Where to work, let alone become an official.
It has been raining for two days, and the feeling of spring is getting stronger.
