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Beijing Cuisine is also called Mandarin Cuisine, which has been influenced by imperial cooking school and other cooking styles all over China. Foods originated in Beijing are often snacks rather than full courses so no trip to Beijing is complete without trying some Beijing snacks. Beijing Roast Duck is the most famous local dish popular among tourists. Imperial court food is another famous one which can be found in numerous traditional restaurants in Beijing.
The most typical snacks are Aiwowo (Sticky rice with sweet fillings), Douxian Shaobing (Pancakes with sweetened bean paste filling), Qiegao (Sticky rice cake with a layer of sweetened bean paste), Wandouhuang (Pea Flour Cake), and Lvdagun (Pastry Made of Soy Bean Flour). Douzhi (Mung bean Milk) and Chaoganer (Beijing Style Liver) are very popular food among the local Beijingers. Other famous local dishes are Instant-boiled mutton, Beggar's chicken, Peking Barbecue and Zhajiang Noodles.
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BeijingRoast duck is thought to be one of the most delicious dishes all over the world; most visitors coming to Beijing will never forget to have a try. Eating Peking duck is seen to be one of the two things you are absolutely supposed to do while in Beijing.
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Shuan yang rou, or Mongolian hot pot as it is often known in the West, is a very popular Chinese dish, especially in Beijing, and is primarily eaten in winter, when cold winds blow down from Mongolia. It particularly popular for Chinese New Year. Yang rou is Mandarin for lamb, the favored meat for this dish. Shuan can be roughly translated as "to swish."
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Noodles With Soybean Paste, also called Zha Jiang Mian, is very popular when it comes to traditional Beijing cuisine. As an added bonus, it is not expensive at all. Zha Jiang Mian is consists of three main materials. They are wide hand-tossed noodles, vegetable pieces as well as pork.
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Fried Filled Sausage is a dish made with intestine filled with starch, minced meat and some spices. It is first steamed and then cut into cubes and fried. When it is done, it looks inviting with salty water and garlic juice. It is said that Empress Dowager Ci Xi sang high praise of it, so you can imagine how delicious it is.
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Jiao Quan is a household snack in Beijing. It is beloved by all the people, male or female, old or young. When people in Beijing have clay oven rolls or mungbean milk, they generally like to enjoy them with the fried bread circle.It is a snack commonly haven with baked cake or Mung Bean Milk.
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Mung Bean Milk, which was first drunk about one thousand years ago, is the Number one snack when people are talking about Beijing Snacks. It is actually remnant of mung bean when it is used to make starch. It looks grey-green and tastes sour and a little sweet.
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Lv Da Gun, also known as bean flour cake, is one of the oldest snacks in Beijing. When making it, firstly, make little dough with soybean flour and roll the dough up with sweetened bean paste inside. Then trundle it in soybean dust at last. That is the reason why it gets a strange name 'rolling the donkey' in Chinese. The cake is yellow with dense soybean flavor and is featured by fragrant, sweet and glutinous.
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Nai You Zha Gao is a fried cream cake. Mixing cream, sugar and vanilla into flour pasta, you can make several cakes. After frying in the oil, cover them with sugar. Cream Fried Cakes are yellow round like little golden balls. The surface is crispy with a soft and sticky inside.
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Dou Fu Nao is also called Bean Curd Stew. It is made of Dou Fu and a sauce made from beans, soy sauce and vegetables. It feels nice how the Dou Fu mells in your mouth together with delicious sauce.
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Tang Huo Shao is one of the favorable local snacks in Beijing. Its origin is traced back as far as 300 years ago. The most famous Tang Huo Shao are those from Da Shun Zhai Restaurant in Tongzhou in eastern Beijing, which are the most favorable foods for Muslims in their pilgrim to Mecca.
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