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Stir-fried Kidney
7 TOP 10 BEIJING STREET FOODS
Flowers
These are pork kidneys cut in a 1 Lu da gun’r
criss-cross fashion and stir-fried, Literally “donkeys rolling in dirt”:
during which they open out like sweet red-bean paste in a rice
“flowers.” The kidneys are typically dough dusted with peanut powder.
prepared with bamboo shoots, water 2 Jian bing
chestnuts, and edible black fungus. A Chinese crêpe often sold off the
back of tricycles. It is a typical Beijing
Drunken Empress
8 breakfast dish.
Chicken
3 Shao bing
This dish is supposedly named for Hot bread roll sometimes filled with
Yang Guifei, an imperial concubine a fried egg and often sprinkled with
who was overly fond of her alcohol. aniseed for flavoring.
The dish is prepared using Chinese 4 Tang chao lizi
wine and is served cold. Chestnuts, roasted in sugar and hot
sand and served in a paper bag. A
seasonal snack appearing in autumn.
5 Tang hu lu
A kebab of candied hawthorn berries.
6 Chuan’r
In any area with lots of bars and clubs
you’ll find street vendors selling
chuan’r (kebabs). They cost just a
few yuan per skewer.
7 Baozi
These delicious steamed dumplings
are cooked in bamboo baskets. Typical
fillings include pork, chicken, beef, or
vegetables and tofu.
8 Rou bing
Cooked bread filled with finely
chopped and spiced pork. A variant
is rou jiamo, which is a bun packed
with finely diced lamb.
9 You tiao
Deep-fried dough sticks, often dipped
in warm congee (a rice porridge).
10 Hong shu
Steamer stacked with various dumplings A winter specialty, these are baked
sweet potatoes, often heated in
Jiaozi
9 ovens made from oil drums.
Traditional Beijing dumplings
are filled with pork, bai cai (Chinese
leaf), and ginger but, in fact, fillings are
endless. You can find jiaozi at snack
shops all over the city. They are also
sold on the street, either steamed or
fried on a giant hot plate over a brazier.
Lamb and Scallions
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Scallions (spring onions) are
a common Beijing ingredient and in
this dish they are rapidly stir-fried
along with sliced lamb, garlic, and Skewered berries in a tang hu lu
a sweet-bean paste.

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