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Innovative dishes
At 8 Qinian Chinese Restaurant, one can try many dishes not available elsewhere. Chef Duan Yu applies both modern and traditional ways to present a unique cuisine. He uses fresh seasonal ingredients, prepared with classic cooking methods but a new presentation. Tasty appetizers include flavorful marinated bean curd and refreshing assorted Sichuan pickled vegetables. Following that, drink a bowl of nutritious Chinese soup of conpoy with mushroom. The chef makes a distinctive steamed version of Chinese drunken crab. T-bone beef steak, fresh scallop fried with chili, and litchi-flavored prawn ball are all worth trying. Average spending is 230 yuan per head.
8 Qinian, 2/F New World Beijing Hotel, 8 Qinian Dajie (Street), Dongcheng district, Beijing. 010-5960-8822.
All-you-can-eat feast
Coffee Garden, a restaurant offering an Asian and international buffet, has just introduced an all-you-can-eat set menu for dinner. The set meal, at 198 yuan ($32) per head, plus 15 percent surcharge, includes 20 to 30 choices of main and side dishes, plus salad, dessert and sushi. The chef recommends six of the main courses: fish "thread" noodles, Hong Kong-style fried prawn with garlic, braised beef cheek, fried lamb tenderloin and a combo of fish, shrimp and rib-eye steak, all prepared on view in open kitchens. The dessert station has about 20 choices of cakes, tarts and ice cream.
Coffee Garden, 1/F, Kerry Center Hotel Beijing, 1 Guanghua Lu (Road), Chaoyang district, Beijing. 010-8565-2088.
- Ye Jun
