Top 8 Snack Shop You Should Try in Beijing
Beijing's local snacks are unique in their mixture of the Han, the Hui, the Mongolian, and the Manchurian flavors and the Ming and Qing courts flavors. It features carefully selected materials and abundant in varieties, which emphasize a perfect combination of color, aroma, taste, and appearance. More than 200 local snakes such as clysters and stir-fried livers are available in Beijing, and hundreds of local snack shops are opened to meet the demand of visitors from all over the world in Beijing.
For those who are very fussy about the quality of food, you’re recommended to have dinner in high-end restaurants during your Beijing travel; for those who just want to taste the authentic Beijing local snacks, you’re highly advised to visit the following top local snack shops during your Beijing travel.
1. Bai Kui Lao Hao Restaurant
As one of the most famous Moslem restaurants of Beijing, Bai Kui Lao Hao Restaurant attracts visitors from far and near for its unique roasted mutton. The mutton is well-selected and carefully cooked, featuring tender, meaty and juicy. Many visitors from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan make a special trip to the restaurant to taste the mutton during their mainland travel. In addition, the Lamian (the hand-pulled noodles with mutton or beef) is also favored by visitors in the restaurant.
Location: No. 83, Fulong Square, Fulongsi Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing
Average Consumption per One: 40 RMB
Opening Hours: 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Transport: bus 210,103, 104 and 211 and subway line 1.
2. Qingfeng Steamed Stuffed Bun Shop
As the most famous steamed stuffed bun shop of Beijing and even in China, Qingfeng Steamed Stuffed Bun Shop has a history of over 60 years, which specializes in making the traditional Sanxian steamed buns (with ground pork, shrimps and vegetables inside a dough skin) and stir-fried livers. Wontons in Chicken Soup and congee with green grams are also provided in Qingfeng Steamed Stuffed Bun Shop.
Location: No. 85, Xianmen Avenue, Xicheng District, Beijing
Average Consumption per One: 14 RMB
Opening Hours: 6:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Transport: bus 101, 103, 109, 124, 14, 202, 211, 38, 55, 685 and 68
3. Duyichu Steamed Dumpling Restaurant (at Qianmen)
Duyichu Steamed Dumpling Restaurant has a history of over 250 years, whose horizontal inscribed board (Duyichu) was bestowed by the Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1616 -1911), and it specializes in making the steamed dumplings. The cook of the restaurant is also very good at making Japanese muffins, which are favored by Japanese visitors.
Location: No. 36, Qianmen Avenue, Chongwen District, Beijing
Average Consumption per One: 44 RMB
Opening Hours: 6:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Transport: bus 120, 126, 17, 20, 22, 301, 48, 5, 59, 646, 66, 690, 692, 69 and 803
4. Jinfang Snack Shop
Built during the Republic of China (1911 -1949), Jinfang Snack Shop has a very wide selection of snacks, highlighted by Yuanxiao (round dumplings made of glutinous rice flour). The Yuanxiao in the shop has tens of stuffing, including hawthorns, greengages, osmanthus blossoms, sweetened bean pastes and desiccated coconuts. Jinfang Snack Shop also offers the fried glutinous rice balls with sesames, fried sesame cakes and almond tea during the Lantern Festival each year.
Location: Waidajie Avenue, Guangqumen, Chongwen District, Beijing
Average Consumption per One: 16 RMB
Opening Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Transport: bus 23, 57, 637 and 715
5. Longfusi Snack Shop
Longfusi Snack Shop highlights sweet twists of dough, pea cakes, baked donuts, coconut cakes and pulse-flour cakes, where you can taste delicious Lianggao (a kind of cake made of glutinous rice served cold) and agar-agar jellies in summer, and is clysters are tasty as well.
Location: No. 1, Fulong Square, Qianjie Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing
Average Consumption per One: 17 RMB
Opening Hours: 6:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Transport: bus 101, 109, 112, 420, 609, 685, 104, 108, 201, 106, 116, 104 and 684
6. Huguosi Snack Shop
Huguosi Snack Shop is noted for its profound historical and cultural deposits in Beijing, whose famous snacks include Aiwowo (steamed rice cakes with sweet stuffing), Lvdagunr (glutinous rice rolls with sweet bean flour), Matuan (fried glutinous rice balls with sesames), seasoned millet mush and fermented bean drinks.
It’s not rare for you to find visitors queuing up in the front of the shop in the morning, and the business is booming owing to its authentic local flav
Location: opposite to Renmin Theater, No. 93, Huguosi Avenue, Xicheng District, Beijing
Average Consumption per One: 22 RMB
Opening Hours: 5:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Transport: bus 107, 118, 90, 701, 47, 70 and 50
7. Xiaochangchen Snack Shop
Xiaochangchen Snack Shop has a history of over 100 years, whose specialty is the wheaten cake boiled in a meat broth. The new-launched assorted chafing dish in a meat broth by the shop has been considered one of the famous Chinese dishes, and you’re highly recommended to taste it.
Location: 11# Building, the 3rd Unit, HuandaoNanfangqun Garden, Fangzhuang Village, Fengtai District, Beijing
Average Consumption per One: 45 RMB
Opening Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Transport: bus 12, 17, 213, 39, 434, 51, 650, 654, 723, 741, 107, 202, 685, 39, 599, 7, 827, 829 and 957
8. Nanlaishun Restaurant
With a history of over 70 years, Beijing Nanlaishun Restaurant is famous for its delicate local snacks, whose cook style is characterized by stir-frying, sautéing and instant-boiling, and the popular snacks include seasoned millet mush, rolled meat, Aiwowo (steamed rice cakes with sweet stuffing) and instant-boiled mutton.
Location: No. 12, Nancaiyuan Street, Xuanwu District, Beijing
Average Consumption per One: 56 RMB
Opening Hours: 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Transport: bus 423, 56, 717, 122, 47, 351, 53, 12, 395, 102, 59, 985, 63, 458, 604 and 423