First, Beijing is not a desert of food, it is a desert of affordable food. You want to eat a good meal for tens of dollars per capita like in other cities, it's just a dream.

The so-called characteristics of the food is a small folk music, especially now to rectify the so-called hole in the wall, neighborhood stores on the ground floor of the almost total collapse. In addition to some chain stores can still exist, the previous kind of three or two people opened up the characteristics of the small store are closed.

So you say there is good food in Beijing? The large number of offices and embassy districts in Beijing means that you can get a wide variety of food from all over the world, and it's all relatively authentic. But multiple factors have led to a serious shortage of such common restaurants in Beijing.

Second, the average person in Beijing to eat a meal, access to more than 70% of the Lanzhou Ramen, Shaxian snacks, KFC chain stores. Some of them may not be chains, but they also carry the same kind of signage.

Some people have asked what is an inside-out diet. Instead of growing outward and expanding categories, Beijing's dining patterns are engaged in constant competition, consolidation, and scaling of existing categories, ultimately making the matter of eating an assembly line product.

People from other countries traveling to Beijing go to those places, which have long been filled with "scaled-up halibut, scaled-up fried noodles, scaled-up copper pot shabu-shabu. These are the fastest way to make money, and you can rub off on the old Beijing name.

Outside the second ring road, "industrial food", and inside the second ring road, "tourist food", this is the overall picture of Beijing's civilian food scene, and the reason Beijing is called a food desert.

Third, some of the Beijing snacks listed

1, this a few big pieces of children around the pastries I really love! The kidney bean rolls, pea yellow, donkey rolls, small bean cold cake and hawthorn cake! Yes, other cities do Beijing food restaurant basically have these, but I really think that many of those big restaurants in the exquisite and neat small exquisite dim sum is not as good as the Beijing everywhere in these traditional snack bar rough and bold big pieces of delicious ah! Even in the tourists piled up in the Guiguo Temple snacks!

With a history of more than 80 years, Nanlaishun is famous for its shabu-shabu and tripe. But nowadays, the most popular dish in the capital is its "feast of snacks", which is a "gathering of heroes". Nan Lai Shun Snacks is the foundation of the famous snack masters "Sheep's Head Horse", "Cake Cutting Rice", "King of Burnt Circle" and "Pie Zhou". Whether it's doughnuts, biscuits, pea butter, noodle tea, burnt rings, donkey rolls, open-mouthed smiles, or thin crisps, jujube flowers, sweet and salty biscuits, screws to turn the child, rolled crispy biscuits, Ai Wo Wo, tofu brain, ginger pork chop, loose Dan twist ...... which will allow you to feel and taste the flavor of the old Beijing. Nan Lai Shun's honey twist is the most famous, was named Beijing's famous snacks in 1997.

1. Juboyuan Shabu Shabu

Niujie is Beijing's Hui settlement, and proper Hui slaughter is performed by a full-time imam, which is very elaborate. Beijingers also generally believe that beef and mutton bought at Niujie are cleaner and more authentic. According to a review of Juboyuan on Dianping.com, Niujie is "the oldest halal shabu-shabu restaurant". The hand-cut mutton is "authentic" and "doesn't get old after a long time of cooking".

Authentic shabu-shabu is served in a charcoal-fired copper pot. The broth, sesame sauce (cilantro, chopped scallions, chives, soy sauce, tofu, marinated shrimp oil, sesame seeds), mutton, baiye, bok choy, frozen tofu, broad noodles, roasted cake, sugar and garlic (to relieve fatigue), none of them can be missing. The meat should be tender, hand-cut as thin as a snowflake, cooked by walking chopsticks, and melt in your mouth. Jubao source of lamb and sesame baklava is really amazing, can be expensive price is also flat.

2, Beijing Roast Duck

Shop recommended: Four Seasons Roast Duck

Average cost: 140 yuan

Do not go to hit the net red store, to eat the most authentic Beijing Roast Duck, of course, is to go to the local people recommended by the Four Seasons Roast Duck store 啦 ~ diners 90% of the Beijing people, as long as the average per capita of 100 +, the taste of the super tasty! Duck skin dipped in sugar melt in the mouth, eat while hot wrapped cake, stuffed mouth big satisfaction, really super satisfaction ah ah!

3, Bao master pastry

In 2004, the Bao couple founded the first "Bao master pastry" in Beijing. Because the husband's last name is Bao, the name of the store is straightforward. The store was founded because Mrs. Bao likes to eat dim sum, but she felt that the dim sum bought from several stores had food safety problems, and she didn't dare to eat it casually. So, Master Bao slapped his thigh, I'll open one, do it for you to eat!

Ten years in the past, Bao master has been quietly doing cakes. Until 2014, suddenly, Bao master fire. Later, the couple realized, "Bao master pastry" was reported by a Beijing TV food column, the customer flow instantly rushed to come, every day to do the cake was quickly sold out.

4, Beixinqiao brine old store

In the subway line 5 between Zhang Zizhong Road and Beixinqiao two stations, next to Guijie. Unlike other restaurants, this one adds two slices of white meat for a more flavorful meal. And the bottom is relatively more, but the price is also constantly long ......

Basic business hours will be queuing, but the master of the knife is very good, wait a little while a bowl of marinated boiled out of the pick-up table under the chives and flowers curd chili sauce and garlic and so on, according to their own tastes! The first step is to make sure that you have a good idea of what you're looking for.

5, the old Beijing fried noodles

If you want to feel the old Beijing culture, you can go to the kind of specialty stores, a bald fat man at the door, meet to say "yo, master to come." After entering the door and ordering food, all kinds of small ingredients into the bowl, mixing noodles, eating with garlic, sometimes there are comedians on the stage, quite an interesting experience.

Finally, when you go out, if you have to pay for the change, you can generously come to the sentence to forget, and then listen to the sentence "thank you within". Followed by a few old Beijing friends dinner is this rhythm, let me feel for the first time the original China is also the habit of tipping.