Front Gate Street has now been planned as a pedestrian street, which is Beijing's largest ancient city reserve and the only planned commercial area around Tiananmen Square. The buildings here mainly reflect the style of the ancient capital, and people can look for the memories of old Beijing. The long history of Qianmen Street has also created many old Chinese brands here. The world-famous old firms such as Quanjude, Ruifuxiang, Zhang Yiyuan, etc., have all weathered the storms of a hundred years in this area! Although this is not a specialized food street, it represents the food culture of the capital and is a must-visit place for foreigners to Beijing. The century-old stores here are Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant, all one place of siu mai, the old Zhengxing Restaurant, One Dragon Restaurant, Kaifeng first floor dunking soup buns, etc., all of them are more than a hundred years old, and the taste is also quite authentic.

2, Ping'an Avenue

From the Dongsishitiao Bridge to the west, or in the Di'anmen neighborhood to wander, the street side of the various restaurants can be said to be one after another. Eating is only half the enjoyment here, the other half is the architecture and history. Because many of the restaurants are built on the former sites of some of the original royal residences and mansions, such as the famous Gege Mansion, whose predecessor was the mansion given by Empress Dowager Cixi, and which specializes in all kinds of palace stews, which are very distinctive. The Beipinglou near Ping'anli is a restaurant that deals with old Beijing flavors, so if you want to eat tripe, bean juice and fried noodles, you can eat them all here. Beipinglou inside the belly, bean juice, fried noodles is also particularly authentic.

3, Shichahai

Shichahai here, "nine snacks" gathered 11 due to the front door remodeling and once bid farewell to the long-established snack bar, bustling. "Nine Gate Snacks" is an imitation of the old courtyard style courtyard. Around the corridor, through a narrow aisle, the aisle as the door outside the hutong, neatly arranged a row of tables, Zhang Zhang people seated. Further inside, the space was suddenly larger, a proper restaurant hall, with only a few orange lights on, dimly lit. Another aisle on the right, parallel to the aisle just now, a long line, which is a collection of moon Shengzhai, BaoDou Feng, tea soup Li, rice cake money, cheese Wei, sheep's head horse, bean curd brain white and other dozen kinds of old snack street. Especially interesting is that many rooms are named after "Qianmen", "Chongwenmen" and other Beijing place names, showing the flavor of old Beijing. When you go to "Nine Gate Snack", you should have a sense of time. The business hours here are 10:00 am - 13:30 pm; 17:00 pm - 21:00 pm, out of date, "closed". It is said that this place can accommodate 400 people dining at the same time, the peak time appears to be a little short, often see the hand tray in a hurry to find a seat people, and finally had to stand and eat, eat while looking for.

4, smoke bag diagonal street

Smoke bag diagonal street is Gulou snack street, it is the oldest diagonal street in Beijing. Smoke bag diagonal street is located in Di'anmenwai Street in front of the Drum Tower, Shichahai, northeast of the sea, in fact, most of the inside of a variety of handicrafts stores, some of the old Beijing flavor snacks or hit the smoke bag diagonal street food reputation. Here, "Wang fat donkey fire meat barbecue" authentic, worth a taste. "yellow" roast "leisurely lying in the wicker basket", "look at the fragrance"; a bite down, "soft "Donkey meat with" crispy "burnt", plus green peppers that "a touch of freshness", and then with "a side of waiting for a long time of millet porridge". Donkey meat (miscellaneous) soup "even drink with fishing" is also "quite enjoyable". In short, it is "flavorful and inexpensive". There is also the most authentic Meiyuan dairy products. Meiyuan General Store is a window enterprise of Beijing Sanyuan Foods Co. The Xibianmen Store, Taiji Factory Store, Jinsong Store, Xisi Store, Sanyili Store, Tuanjiehu Store, Honglian Store, Qianmen Store, Hepingli Store, and Yufa Store belonging to the head office not only display and sell Sanyuan dairy products to the public every day, but also provide homemade palace dairy products and western-style fast food to the public with its unique method of front store and back factory. Plum Garden cheese is particularly tasty, sweet, cold with a strong milky flavor; almond tofu soaked in sugar water, light almond flavor to be savored to fully enjoy.

5, Ox Street

Beijing has a saying: "Beijing's snacks in Xuanwu, Xuanwu snacks in Ox Street." Niujie is a Beijing Islamist settlement, Niujie and the nearby hutongs are full of halal and old Beijing-style snack stores and restaurants, bean juice, tripe, sticky goods, these fast forgotten and disdain for the traditional snacks here occupies a fairly important position; Niujie north of the mouth of the "Turpan restaurant" due to the unique architectural style and business The "Turpan Restaurant" at the north exit of Ox Street is very famous for its unique architectural style and Xinjiang flavor. With the north exit of the Ox Street perpendicular to the input hutong, filled with small stores selling beef and mutton, it is said that the beef and mutton here is the best quality beef and mutton in the whole city of Beijing, many Beijingers come from afar to buy. The Hui people's favorite old shops such as Qingzhen Xingde Tea House, Juboyuan Hot Pot City, Hongshunxuan and Niancao Qian are gathered here.

6, Guijie

Dongzhimen Guijie is not Beijing's traditional snack street, but the earliest food street in Beijing. The heyday is: "everyone eats crayfish, night and day singing into the early hours of the morning". To Guijie diners, most of them are rushing to "hemp small" to come. Nowadays, although Guijie is no longer as busy as it was back then, it is still popular. Just like Xi'an's whistling noodles, Northeast China's dumplings, and Shanxi's noodles, Guijie's "Ma Xiao" has become a famous business card. Come to Beijing to play may want to eat a meal of the famous capital of spicy crayfish.