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Gu Zhenhuang

  • Address: 3 Qianhai Xijie, Xicheng District, Beijing
  • Phone: 010/6613-9641
  • Price range: 550-3500
  • Cuisine: Chinese
  • Location: Xicheng District

A Cantonese eatery located in hutong-enclosed courtyard house, Gu Zhenhuang is just a short walk from Houhai. You can dine in one of the four rooms that look out on the courtyard. Several set menus are available with prices running from Y150 to Y1,400 per person. Specialties include Cantonese dishes like turtle shell, fish maw, and braised ox tongue. Owner Albert Wong, a Hong Kong gourmet and food writer whose pen name is Gu Zhenhuang, has selected a good wine list—with some wines breaking the bank at over $1,000 per bottle.

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Civil

Anping Gujie

  • Address: Tower A, 106 Jianwai Soho, 39 Dong Sanhuan Zhonglu, Chaoyang District, Beijing
  • Phone: 010/5869-2083
  • Price range: $
  • Cuisine: Chinese
  • Location: Chaoyang District

The two-story Anping, with a bar on the first floor and dining upstairs, is located in the sprawling Jianwai Soho complex. Dine amidst dark wood, marble tables, velour armchairs, gauzy burgundy drapes, and traditional lamps hung from the ceiling. Hakka and Taiwanese dishes dominate the menu; our top picks are caipudan, a Hakka turnip omelet, and o a jian, a popular Taiwanese oyster omelet. Zha xia juan, or deep-fried shrimp, and suzha kezai, deep-fried oysters, are other toothsome specialties. Conclude your meal with a refreshing dessert of shaved ice with red bean, pineapple, or taro drizzled with sweet condensed milk.

 

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