Beijing specialties that are easy to take home as gifts include Beijing roast duck, Huairou chestnuts, donkey rolling, pea yellow, Daoxiangcun pastries, etc.
1. Peking Roast Duck Peking Roast Duck is a well-known delicacy of Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant in Beijing. It is famous both at home and abroad for its red color, tender meat, mellow taste, fat but not greasy.
Peking duck is roasted in two methods: oven and stew. Use a sharp knife to cut it into thin slices. Use the baked lotus leaf cake to coat it with sweet flour sauce, then add chives, minced garlic, roast duck slices, etc. to roll it up and eat it.
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2. Huairou chestnut Huairou chestnut is quite famous throughout the country. It is rich in nutrients. It is a healthy food with high calories, low fat, high protein and no cholesterol.
The most common way to eat Huairou chestnuts is to make them into candied roasted chestnuts, which taste sweet and fragrant and leave you with endless aftertaste.
3. Donkey Rolling is one of the traditional snacks of old Beijing. The finished product has three distinct colors: yellow, white and red.
Because the soybean noodles sprinkled in the final production process are like the loess thrown up when wild donkeys roll around in the suburbs of old Beijing, it is named "Donkey Rolling".
4. Pea yellow uses high-quality white peas as raw materials. The finished product is light yellow in color, delicate and pure, melts in the mouth, tastes sweet, cool and refreshing.
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5. Beijing Daoxiangcun Pastry Daoxiangcun Pastry is a traditional specialty in Beijing and a time-honored brand. It has various Chinese pastries, moon cakes and other traditional snacks. There are many varieties. The more popular ones include almond cake, scallion peach cake, thin crackers, and bean paste cakes.
, ear cakes, jade belt cakes, etc. are good choices for gifts to relatives and friends.