On a cold winter day in Beijing, you may like to have something hot in a restaurant with your family. Then Hotpot is perhaps the best choice for you.
The pot is made of brass with a wide outer rim around a chimney in which the charcoal burns to heat the soup. When the soup is boiling, dinners dip thin slices of frozen raw meat in the soup where it gets quick boiled and then put them into a kind of sauce like sesame sauce, soy sauce, chili oil, and vinegar. The meat can be beef, mutton, chicken, fish, prawn, lots of things but not pork if you are in an Islamic restaurant. Vegetables such as mushrooms, bean curds can be quick boiled as well. Of course, you can also try whatever you like.
Dong Lai Shun in Wangfujing Dajie is a restaurant that is worth mentioning. It was opened in 1903 and is well-known for its Hot Pot with its ethnic characteristics at home and abroad. It has developed an Islamic dietetic system of over two hundred dishes, bearing the features of carefully selected materials, crisp sweet garlic, many kinds of seasonings and blazing Hot Pot.
Nowadays, Sichuan-style and Cantonese-style Hot Pots have spread all over the county. One is much spicy and the other is sweeter but delicious as well. Recently Hot Pot also appears on tables in other seasons. Some people especially like eating it in summer, sitting in front of a fire with an air-conditioner working behind and saying it couldn't have been better!
Top Hot Pot Restaurants in Beijing
Beijing Flavor Hot Pot Restaurants:Dong Lai Shun
Location: No. 198, Wangfujing Street
Average Cost per Person: CNY 70
Jing Fu Hua
Location: No. 74, Tiantan East Road
Average Cost per Person: CNY 60
Yi Tiao Long Restaurant
Location: Building 2, East Street, Qianmen
Average Cost per Person: CNY 55
Sichuan & Chongqing Flavor Hot Pot Restaurants:Hai Di Lao Hot Pot
Average Cost per Person: CNY50 - CNY60
Hai Di Lao (Da Hui Temple Branch)
Location: No.2, Da Hui Temple Lu, Haidian District
Hai Di Lao (Mudanyuan Branch)
Location: No.2, Huayuan Donglu, Haidian District
Hai Di Lao (Jinsong Branch)
Location: No.29, Nanmofang Lu, Chaoyang Disttict
Hai Di Lao (Baizhifang Branch)
Location: Bldg 1-2, No.42, Guanganmen Nanjie, Xicheng District
Hai Di Lao (Beiao Branch)
Location: 3/F, Beiao Mansion, No.2 A, Huixin Dongjie, Chaoyang District
Hai Di Lao (Xidan Branch)
Location: 7/F, Xi Youyi Emporium, No.109, Xidan Beidajie, Xicheng District
Li Lao Die Hot Pot
Location: No. 9, Outer Guangqu Gate Street
Average Cost per Person: CNY 60
Huang Cheng Lao Ma
Location: 9, Jiaochangkou Jie, Xicheng District
Average Cost per Person: CNY100
Inner Mongolian Flavor Hot Pot Restaurants:Little Sheep Hot Pot (Xiao Fei Yang)
Average Cost per Person: CNY 50
Little Sheep (Caishikou Branch)
Location: No.43, Guanganmennei Dajie, Xicheng District
Little Sheep (Tiantongyuan Branch)
Hours: 11:00 - 22:00
Location: No.21, Tiantongyuan, Changping District
Little Sheep (Xiaoxitian Branch)
Location: No.37, Wenhuiyuan Xijie, Haidian District
Little Sheep (Yayuncun Branch)
Location: Bldg1, Yayuncun Anhuibeili Yayuan, Huizhong Beilu, Chaoyang District
Little Sheep (Jinsong Branch)
Location: Bldg 811, Section 8, Jinsong, Chaoyang District
Little Sheep (Guozhan Branch)
Location: No.34, Xibahe Zhongli, Chaoyang District
Yang Du Du Hot Pot:
Location: No. 19, Xinxi Road, Shangdi
Average Cost per Person: CNY 40
Hot Pot Restaurants of Other Flavors:Four Season Hot Pot (Hong Kong Flavor)
Location: No. 8, Chaoyang Park South Road
Average Cost per Person: CNY 130
Macau ChaFing Dish Restaurant (Macau Flavor)
Location: No. 41 North Street, Xizhi Gate
Average Cost per Person: CNY 130
Zhou Jia Zhuang Restaurant (Porridge Hot Pot)
Location: No. 13 Jianwai SOHO, Chaoyang District
Average Cost per Person: CNY 60
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