¥30
Fami-Li-Hood Kitchen, Mutianyu Village CHINA
Mmm, this was delicious doused with soy sauce and chilies! I’ve always loved these greasy type omelets. I’ve only seen them served at Asian restaurants though. American restaurants don’t seem to served them this way. I grew up eating omelets like this at home. Noms!
Served over rice. ¥29
The Palace Museum Restaurant, Beijing CHINA
This sucked! It was cold and raining, and we really wanted some hot food to warm us up but this dish was barely lukewarm. Fail! The meatballs were really low quality and the rice was hard.
Leaf wrapped. ¥22
Shanghai Dim Sum, Shanghai CHINA
I thought that this tasted good, but I didn’t like the texture. I generally like sticky rice, but there was something extra watery in the filling that kinda grossed me out. The pork tasted good though.
Haidilao Hot Pot, Beijing CHINA
This was a really fun experience, especially as our first dinner in Beijing. We had a little difficulty ordering and trying to figure out how the process worked, but we managed. We had two different broths, one mild and the other spicy. Little did we know that the spicy broth would eventually reach lava spiciness, lol! I love spicy food, but even I couldn’t handle the spicy broth after all the oil for the chilies seeped into the broth. We ordered so many different kinds of meats and items to cook in the broth and I wish I could have taken pics of everything but I was really just trying to enjoy the dinner. We ordered a side of fresh noodles, and the guy came to our table and pulled the noodles tableside as he danced around. That was fun! Cheers to our successful maiden dinner in Beijing!
Marinated beef.
Assorted seafood and meatballs.
Greens.
Enoki mushrooms.
Noodles pulled tableside.
Jinhua pork and corn, shrimp jinhua pork and luffa, matsutake and assorted mushroom jinhua pork, black truffle and jinhua pork, house specialty jinjua pork, and pork with fresh water crab essence. ¥48
Shanghai Dim Sum, Shanghai CHINA
I thought these soup dumplings looked fun and colorful, but they didn’t taste all that great. The dumpling wrapper was too thick and starchy which took away from the individual flavors of the fillings and broth. Also, the service here was horrendous! They were super slow and they don’t much care for you if you’re ordering for take out. Lame!
2 orders with sauce ¥41
Jia Jia Tang Bao, Shanghai CHINA
I really liked this place and the soup dumplings were delicious! I loved the crab flavor and the broth was wonderful. The lady at the front didn’t speak any English but we were able to order food just by pointing, hehe. Definitely, a must try while in Shanghai!
Jia Jia Tang Bao.
With shrimp and bean curd. ¥99
Louwailou, Hangzhou CHINA
This dish was great! It was very different from anything I’ve had before and it was fun and delicious. It was flavorful and had a lot of different textures in it. It also had baby shrimp and regular shrimp in there but with lots of exoskeletons. I think the orage stuff was crab roe? I’d also never had a dish served in a paper dish over a sterno.
Honey Shanghai style dish. ¥45
Shanghai Dim Sum, Shanghai CHINA
This was good and similar tasting to what you can get back in San Francisco. The sauce was yummy, but the ribs themselves were on the tough side and probably over-fried.
2 orders with sauce ¥41
Jia Jia Tang Bao, Shanghai CHINA
Omg, these Shanghai soup dumpling were amazing! When is Shanghai eat some XLB, right?!?! The pork filling was delicious and the broth was tasty. The dumpling casing had a nice thin thickness, but wasn’t too fragile so it still withstood my clumsy chopstick skills. Noms!
The restaurant is tiny!
¥16
Louwailou, Hangzhou CHINA
I loved this dish! The thin layers of bean curd were super fun to eat and they seemed to pull apart and have a similar texture of meat. Noms!
¥32
Guyi Hunan, Shanghai CHINA
These ribs were super flavorful, but a bit dry and tough. You really had to scrape off the excessive amount of cumin seeds to get at the ribs, but the seeds were actually kinda fun to eat. Overall, this dish was a miss because the protein wasn’t cooked very well.
¥25
Louwailou, Hangzhou CHINA
This was amazing and just as good if not better than any pork belly that you’ll find in any fancy, expensive restaurant. The pork was tender, juicy and the sauce was rich and bold. Noms!
Vittle Monster 