Quanjude roast duck @ Beijing, China

Quanjude is a famous roast duck chain in Beijing, China. They are founded in 1864 and their restaurants are visited by government official and leaders. The duck were hung and roasted inside an open oven. Qunjude also provide roasted duck to the athletes during the Beijing olympic games in year 2008.

Taste:7/10(Moderate. The duck does not have the smoke or spices smell which roasted duck should have. The taste very dependent on the condiment provided which is the sweet sauce and the pancakes. The skins however is good with oil which melts in your mouth. Basically the tastiest part of the duck is the skins).
Price:4/10(Expensive. I ordered half duck for myself at RMB118. Do take note that you only eat the best part of the duck and not the half whole duck).


Come early to avoid the crowd. You need to queue up and get number to get in there.

The restaurant is quite busy.

My table settings.

Chef preparing and slice roasted duck.


The roasted duck is freshly prepared and sliced.

The chef carefully slice the meat.

Crepe for wrapping and eat with roast duck.

The best part of the roast duck is not the meat. But this 4 pieces of skins which is full of fat which melts in your mouth.


This is the roast duck that you should expect from here. You won't eat the whole duck with bones but the chef only slice the best part for serving. Fatty and moist meat.

Sweet sauce and celery for seasoning.

Put the duck meat, sweet sauce and celery. Wrap everything together and eat it. You will taste the good taste of the duck meat together with the sweet sauce and celery.

Duck head also given.

The remaining bone is not just thrown away. They will prepare soup for you.

Quanjude mascot.

Me at Quanjude roast duck outlet in Wangfujing.

GPS/Coordinate: 39.912131, 116.411810
Address: 13 Shuaifuyuan Lu, Wangfujing, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China.
Public transport: Wangfujing station on Beijing metro.

Wangfujing shopping street @ Beijing, China

Wangfujing is a famous shopping street in Beijing, China. There are many luxury shops located on this street. I enjoyed looking at some high-end shops together with some souvenir shops.


Beijing taxi at Wangfujing street.

Church on Wangfujing street.

Wangfujing is centre of tourist attraction in Beijing.

Beijing Apple Store.

Famous Wangfujing bookstore.

Long street with endless shops.

Selfie at Wangfujing street.

More visitors at night.

Hazy night at Wangfujing.

One of the high end department stores.

Dongan department store.

Wangfujing street market.


Walking into the night market. Beware of pick pocket here.

Baby scorpion sold as snack in Wangfujing street market.

Fried black scorpion.

Fried grasshopper.

Escargot.

Mussels.

However not all food sold here is exotic. Here you can have the tasty grilled squid as well.


Pig's stomach soup.


Goat's drumstick.

Preserved & sweetened small apples.

GPS/Coordinate: 39.908086, 116.411545
Public transport:Wangfujing station Beijing subway line 1.

Exotic food @ Donghuamen Night Market, Beijing

The food is on display at both markets and they are very popular for tourists and locals. The place seems made specially for attracting tourists. Most of it is raw food which is grilled, fried, or tossed in a wok upon order. With over a billion people to feed and a country that is not wealthy until recently, people had to learn to eat everything. Does it make sense? The food isn’t “weird”, but just different and unusual to a North American or Western culture.


Donghuamen night market.

Centipede.

Spider.

Not sure what is this. Starfish?

Squid tentacle.

Pig kidney.

Snake meat.

Clams with garlic.

Goat's drumstick.

Smelly bean curd.

Meat buns.

Beef stomach.

Durian cake.


Variety of exotic food on this on display here including silk worm.

Roasted fish.

Mantis prawn.

Crab meat rice.

Me in Donghuamen night market.

GPS/Coordinate: 39.915378, 116.410072
Address: Near by Wangfujing street.
Subway: Wangfujing station on Beijing metro.