This past saturday, after failing to locate the no-longer-there Dunhuang Shifu, I rerouted the troops towards the Kashgar Representative Office Restaurant 喀什饭庄 (map) as they had never been there. That was all the excuse I needed to get my hands on some Chuan’r, dapanji and other mouth watering goodies. The restaurant was busier than last [...]
Tags: chuan'r, Kashgar, provincial restaurant
I love my provincial restaurants and keep trying to get out and discover them as much as possible and with the cold that is hitting Beijing this winter, I figured some steaming hot Lanzhou noodles would be exactly what the doctor ordered. I rallied the troops and plans were made to hit the less-traveled roads [...]
Tags: dunhuang, gansu, Kashgar, provincial restaurant
Sometime ago, I learned that every province in China had a representative office and restaurant in Beijing where one could go and sample authentic cuisine from the region. The most famous of these was Chuan Ban, the Sichuan Provincial restaurant(map). Having had my share of Sichuan food in various establishments, I was more curious about [...]
Tags: chinese restaurant, chuan ban, provincial restaurant, sichuan restaurant
I have been having many conversation lately about the better places to eat this kind of food or the better places to eat that kind of food in Beijing and Yunnan cuisine gets brought up quite a bit. That said, almost inevitably, people are surprised when they hear that Middle 8, Silk Road and Dali [...]
My appreciation for all things Xinjiang and especially the cuisine is quite well documented on this blog as well as other places in the wild wild web and I never turn down an opportunity to stuff my face with sizzling roasted chuan’r or hand pulled noodles. And there are plenty of places to do that [...]
Tags: chuan'r, Kashgar, lamb, provincial restaurant, xinjiang food
now Ladies and Gentlemen, after a few musical interruptions, we go back to our regular food programming…. in other words, I’m still eating food and loving it!! I love provincial restaurants as they bring an air of authenticity to Beijing’s culinary scene! That said, I wish they was an easier way to keep track of [...]
When I think of provincial restaurants in Beijing, it conjures images of the opulent xinjiang-nese, hugely popular Sichuanese or the amazingly tropical Yunnanese (that I wrote about a while back). These restaurants stand out one way or another in terms of decoration, staff and atmosphere. The Guangxi Provincial restaurant in Beijing (广西省驻京办餐厅) kinda took a [...]
Tags: guangxi, provincial restaurant, shuanjing, 广西省驻京办餐厅
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