From Nanluoguxiang to Niujie, discover street-food delights beneath the walls of a six-hundred-year-old imperial capital.
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Places and neighborhoods worth exploring in Beijing.
Six hundred years of imperial life in the Forbidden City: the world’s largest and most complete surviving complex of ancient wooden buildings.
Mountain passes and ancient ramparts: with dense vegetation and fewer visitors, Mutianyu is presented as Beijing’s most walkable stretch of the Great Wall.
Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake form China’s largest and most complete surviving imperial garden, known as the “Museum of Imperial Gardens.”
Ming and Qing emperors prayed here for heaven’s favor and abundant harvests. The three-tiered conical roof of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests remains architecturally influential.
An east–west hutong full of Beijing character, with small shops, cafés and everyday old-city life tucked among gray walls and tiled roofs.
A post-industrial creative neighborhood where former factories house galleries, studios and design shops.
Beijing's signature street-food highlights.
Roasted over a fruitwood flame in a hanging oven, the duck has crisp skin and tender meat. It is carved into 108 willow-leaf-shaped slices and wrapped in thin pancakes with sweet wheat sauce, shredded scallions and cucumber.
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Yellow soybean paste and sweet wheat sauce are simmered slowly with diced pork belly fried until fragrant, then served with eight vegetable toppings including shredded cucumber, bean sprouts and watermelon radish.
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Fermented mung-bean douzhi is sour with a sweet finish. Served with crisp fried dough rings and spicy shredded pickles, it is a breakfast for committed Beijing food lovers.
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Pork intestines, pork lung, tofu and baked flatbread simmer together in a rich, deeply flavored broth, finished with mashed garlic and cilantro.
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Pitted hawthorn berries are threaded onto skewers and coated with a crisp shell of cooked rock sugar, balancing sweetness and tartness.
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Steamed yellow-rice dough is rolled thin, spread with red-bean paste, rolled up and coated in toasted soybean flour—the foremost of old Beijing’s three celebrated sticky treats.
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How to enjoy Beijing's street-food highlights.
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