A little over two years ago, I embarked on a journey to try all the provincial restaurants in Beijing. I’m still going strong but after such a long time, I was overdue for a pilgrimage to place where my infatuation with various Chinese cuisines started: Xinjiang Fanzhuang 新疆饭庄 inside the The Urumqi Representative Office Restaurant [...]
Tags: chuan'r, provincial restaurant, xinjiang food, xinjiang provincial
A little while back, I’ve finally managed to gather the troops and head over to the west side of town for the last of the Xinjiang Provincial restaurants in Beijing that had managed to evade me: The Xinjiang Islam Restaurant 新疆伊斯兰饭庄, attached to the provincial representative office, inside the Xinjiang Hotel. It is located inside [...]
Tags: chuan'r, provincial restaurant, Xinjiang Islam Restaurant, xinjiang provincial, 新疆伊斯兰饭庄
There have been many debates amongst Beijing’s twitterati earlier this year as to who has the best La Zi Ji 辣子鸡 with many names pushed forward including the ever reliable Chuan Ban but I think I’ve gotten acquainted with the crown jewel of la zi ji over two trips within a few weeks to Gui [...]
Tags: chuan'r, gui jie, kao yu, laziji, xiao yu shan
Between flying around continents, going to shows and just generally being too busy to get stuff done, I haven’t had time to spend time going around checking out restaurants, much less writing about them.. until last week that is when a few out-of-towners came around. A healthy craving for chuan’r and not enough time to [...]
Tags: chuan'r, Crescent Moon, xinjiang food
I finish work quite late usually which makes it a bit inconvenient to catch a proper meal before heading to shows. So, over the past year, I’ve made my little list of convenient, easy to get to and easy on the wallet eateries next to each of the major concert venues i frequent.. Jianghu Jiu [...]
Tags: chuan'r, jianghu jiu ba
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’ve been walking by this sign on Gulou Dong Da Jie, not too far away from the north entrance of Nan Luo Gu Xiang for a while now and never had the time to actually check it out until a recent trip to Mao Livehouse. I was hungry enough and short on time so took [...]
Tags: chuan'r, gulou, nanluoguxiang
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