Beijing Noms

A combination of Beijing's zha jiang mian(mixed bean paste noodles w meat) and sichuan's spices in this Spicy Mixed Noodles. Yum!
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During the reign of kang xi(a manchurian), he travels to his summer palace in cheng de(承德）every year. The men that got tired of the journey, eventually stayed in cheng de and started their own families. Because cheng de has bad climate for vegetables growing, most of their diet consist of beef, mutton, venison and gourds. 🍴
This is a manchurian crepe set where you can wrap noodles, egg and chilli in your crepe. 😋 In general the food here is saltier as the weather is colder.
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Just as good as it looks! Fresh juicy crab meat in a super flavourful bisque and steamed egg so smooth it's almost like tau huay! 🍴
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Served at the end of the meal before your carbs. A nourishing chicken soup with Mushroom and barley. Mild in taste, which was a nice way to wash your palette from the oily food!

A slightly more refined and modern setup than traditional Peking duck places 🍴
The skin is slightly crisp & fatty, which goes well w the osmanthus sugar. They served both the normal crepe skin and the crispy sesame ones (looks like a pao but is hollow inside)
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We had wasabi duck webb and liver as well. Very fancy presentation but I think the duck is still the star here. Though the Alaskan crab was splendid too!
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Has a shade of milk tea colour but definitely no taste of tea. Just tasted like milk. Interesting but prob not my thing 😂

Mongolians sure love their milk. Fermented milk bars, frozen milk, milk crispies.. when we mentioned that some of the people at the table are lactose intolerant, I think the Mongolian server was slightly offended (or rather just sad). And reminded us that we should try it for the all Mongolian experience! I especially like their yoghurt! Very good w a little drizzle of honey!

On a side note, I don't need VPN to access burpple in China! But a bad thing is, neither can I geotag accurately. So I forgot what's the name of this Shan Dong restaurant located in a hotel near the exit of Forbidden city.

We ordered a mixture of cold dishes- jelly fish, black fungus, pickled lotus root, stir fried bean curd skin. And a range of interesting food, chilled roasted chicken, fish, fried mushrooms, meatball stew, steamed meat dumplings.

So Shan Dong food is a bit on the salty side. But pretty delicious in general and not overly oily! 😋

(In photo- half a rack of roasted lamb, cold stir noodles, stir fried vege)
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First you are led to your yurt, a traditional Mongolian house(view it in my insta stories). We ordered a set meal since we weren't familiar w Mongolian food. We started off w a mix of sweets and savouries, like pickled cucumbers, cold stir noodles,bean curd skin, pot set yoghurt, frozen milk, red bean fried mochi like thing. Which was confusing (since we usu eat dinner last) but tasted good. 🍴
The roasted lamb was truly the star. Unlike the lamb we get in Singapore which has a strong game smell because it's they are mostly goats, lambs over here are grass fed young lamb that doesn't have much game smell and super tender meat. They get you to eat the crispy lamb skin first (almost like when you're eating suckling pig) before peeling off the meat for you. 🍴
Halfway through the meal, the Mongolian server actually fried up an omelette for us. After that, they serve a chicken soup with super fresh mushrooms and barley bits. While ending off w a main dish, "You main yu". We all thought yu (鱼）, fish, and was dreading it since we were all already super full. Then we probe more and realised it was more like noodles. End up, it was a delicious bowl of mushroom, black fungus soup w noodles like mee tai mak. 🍴
All in all, it was ard S$60 person but definitely worth it for the experience and delicious food!! 🍴
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No snaking queue and the service is one level higher than in Singapore. 🍴
Nothing beats a hot pot with lots of shabu slices! Ingredients here are super fresh and the service staff is super attentive! 5 degrees night and eating hot pot makes you feel as hot as eating a hot pot in Singapore 😂
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Didn't quite get the Chinese name of this place and geotag isn't helping. It was __ 福港. A simple breakfast place that locals go for breakfast. You self serve for soy milk/porridge and side dishes. Tell them how many pao you want, which is usually celery pork or chives. And how many dumplings you want. The paos could be a bit salty for the Singaporean palette but definitely strong in flavour. The dumplings were amazing, with the skin at the perfect thickness and just enough meat. Breakfast for 9 ppl at 44RMB(~10SGD)!! Chip chip. Cheap & good!!

At this store called M!an-that's all
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Freshly fried shallots really made the difference in the mala beef noodles. The beef brisket was super tender as well!
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