Owing to its terrain, Beijing food is a collection of food from Hebei, Shandong, lower Yangtze River and Inner Mogolia. Cooking methods include barbecuing, deep-boiling, roasting, smoking and braising. Here we will introduce several typical Beijing foods.
Beijing (Peking) Roast Duck
The Beijing Roast Duck is named as “the No.1 delicious food in the world”. Thus you may see that how essential to taste the Beijing Roast Duck in a Beijing tour.
The right manner to enjoy the duck is like this; take a piece of pancake in one hand, then put three to four slices of the duck onto the pancake with each of the above mentioned vegetable and seasoning. Don't forget the soybean paste. At last, wrap up the pancake into a roll and eat it.
Official Dishes of Family Tan
“The Dishes of Family Tan” are the common dishes in Beijing, which are neither too salty nor too sweet and agreeable to diners.
Cooks use high quality ware and pay much attention to the level of heat. The cooking style stresses maintaining the freshness and inherent taste of the material, avoiding using heavy seasoning in case that the taste be changed.
Mutton Hot Pot
The traditional food Mutton Hot Pot, inherited from the hearty Mongolian, is important on a Chinese table. Mutton Hot Pot is famous for its large variety of materials and seasonings, such as paper-thin mutton slices, sesame jam, leek sprout, bitter shrimp oil, frozen bean curd, dried rice noodles and fresh vegetables like cabbage and radish slices.
Though being popular throughout the year, the hot pot banquet is the best for the harsh and cold winter in Northern China, bring warmth to people, and it contributes to a wonderful occasion where people get together.