From the absolute price, eat in Beijing is cheaper than Shanghai Guangzhou, perhaps because of the large number of low-income class - a month into the hundreds of laid-off workers of the family, housewives are not the same arrangement of three meals a day? From fragrant street baked white potatoes (2 yuan a catty), pancake fruits (1.5 yuan a piece), grilled lamb kebabs (1.5 yuan for big ones and 1 yuan for small ones), to hot baked cakes, scallion pancakes and fried chicken sold in every big supermarket and sub store, as well as fast-food-style dumplings and Lanzhou ramen in small stores, there are still plenty of choices to fill up on less than 10 yuan.
A lot of decent Chinese fast-food joints are only about $8 for a set meal, which you'll never be able to eat at Kentucky Fried Chicken or McDonald's. The nutritional mix is also more reasonable. Recommended are the 6 yuan rolls in SOGO Snack City, a layer of egg, a layer of pancake, rolled with a variety of fresh vegetables, and then smeared with sauce - the most healthy fast food. The dumplings on the street at the west gate of Xinhua News Agency are all delicious, ranging from 1.5 to 3 yuan a tael, with dozens of fillings - we suggest you try the ones filled with eggs and cucumbers at Qiu Xuan. Then there's the stone-pot bibimbap from the Korean bistro that sprang up overnight, at 10 yuan a piece, fragrant and hot.
50-100 yuan
Beijing doesn't have the concept of a dai pai dong, but it's full of them, some of which, in an effort to drum up business, simply post their menus -- or price lists -- outside their doors: 8 yuan for shredded pork with fish, 5 yuan for shredded potatoes with bell peppers, 12 yuan for lamb with scallions... ... can make you shocked, this still have to make money? Of course, cheap is not good, shredded meat is not shaped, mutton is not fresh, and more resting wine to cover.
Recently, the street is full of 28 yuan a duck, or eat 200 to send a duck - I hope tourists do not go to eat, too bad duck reputation. And Xiao Mingzhu, the most authentic Shanghainese food in Beijing on the ghost street of Xizhimen, claims to have the layout of a big chop shop, but not the price point of a big chop shop. In Beijing, 100 yuan can get four people to order a table of food, called "home cooking", but the likelihood of good food is very small, mostly salty, greasy, beef and mutton is not fresh. More than enough to spoil the flavor.
If you can eat spicy, it's a little better, Meizhou Dongpo, Yuxin, such as the Sichuan chain restaurant production is more guaranteed, the price is not so cheap as to cut corners to the extent that three people 100 yuan is also enough.
200 yuan or so
The best choice is Shanghai food, Ningbo food, like the old Ningbo next to the Sait, Dongdan's Xueyuan, good Jiangsu and Zhejiang dishes are delicate, light, even if only a few do well, every time you go to point, but also eat not tired. Bad can also be very bad, Beijing has a Shanghai cuisine, the facade is very good, very bluffing, but even the same glutinous rice sugar lotus root is not flavor.
The Hunan cuisine, originally a little more expensive than the Sichuan cuisine, three people, more than 100 yuan can eat well. Now there is also a trend of "home cooking", a salty and not spicy, chopped pepper fish head steamed old, bacon and not enough. However, in general, Hunan cuisine is not as widespread as Sichuan cuisine, the practice is also more regular. A little more distinctive is Guizhou cuisine, such as the Guizhou Bamboo Shoots Restaurant at the intersection of Zhao Dengyu Road and Ping'an Avenue, where dishes and utensils are distinctive and invigorating.
300-500 yuan
For Japanese food, pay 300 yuan or more and you'll get a raw fish scramble, or you'll be stuck with sushi eel rice. In both Guangzhou and Shanghai, Japanese food is trending toward mass appeal, and Dai is impressed with Shanghai's Japanese buffet. The standard of sushi restaurants in Guangzhou is catching up with that of Hong Kong, and on weekends they are crowded. In Beijing, sushi is rare, the store's biggest concession is the introduction of 70 to 80 yuan a set menu, even if not in the name of business lunches, who is willing to eat that at night? But Japanese food wins in the environment elegant, spaced out a little bit, vague background music, used to eating noisy Chinese food people really think it is a kind of enjoyment.
The Duck River in China World Trade Center, almost the earliest cooking in Beijing to cut white clouds, Dai Fang recommended.
Similarly priced Korean food, barbecue-based, free small dishes, the main dish is hot pot noodles. The main dish is hot pot noodle. There are just a few things that come and go, and if you're careful with the ingredients, you won't get tired of eating them.
A copy of roast beef 70 yuan, is really not cheap, the Korean boss often bow to you to show respect.
Korean food is polarizing in Beijing, and at the same time there is the rise of small restaurants, grilled squid, poutine, and soy sauce soup, which produce a completely different taste.
The Embassy District side, many small Western restaurants, the owner may be in France, Spain, mixed a few years, back to the foreigners are still familiar with. Prices are much more intimidating than the facade, and some of the dishes may be better than five-star hotels, but also more than five-star hotels with a touch of homemade flavor, so the business is not bad.
FRIDAY of course is more people think of the earliest American Western-style food, always hot and lively.
1,000 yuan
1,000 yuan for a meal in Beijing is, in Dai Fang's words, "probably the abalone and shark's fin class." When you eat at a high-star hotel, there's a gap between the menu and the checkout bill -- the difference is that 15 percent service charge. And it's not good. Some years ago, when Beijing's restaurant industry was not very developed, the flavors of some countries could only be eaten in hotels, and that could not be helped. Now you can't see the need for it. Unless it is a wedding, to be a decent, then forget about the food.
Donghuamen quadrangle, specializing in foreign lawyers business, the ground floor is a gallery, the first floor is a restaurant, the second floor is the old furniture, from the window can see the Forbidden City. A bottle of red wine is more than 600 and a cigar is more than 200. The first time Dai Fang went there, he asked for a dragon emblem, and the person said, "The dragon emblem is used for cooking here.
This is probably one of Beijing's best, a small, unassuming restaurant tucked away in a small hutong, but it's so big that it's not for the average diner.
3000-5000 RMB
Cantonese, and seafood, at Shunfeng, a Hong Kong food court. Don't ask what the "going rate" is, just order. According to eaters, Shun Fung is really good, so it's no wonder it's still standing.
10,000 yuan
Tanfu Tanjia Cuisine at the Beijing Hotel offers a 10-person table of shark's fin, starting at 3,000 yuan and going up to 10,000 yuan. 330 yuan a head for cassoulet shark's fin, which has a national patent. One abalone is a four-figure sum. There's no limit to the amount of shark's fin you can eat, it's a whole other level of "abundance and frugality".
Those who are really rich and don't want to be a part of it once in a while are probably willing to go to the trouble of joining hidden private clubs and clubs, rather than joining the masses.