Guijie Spicy Crayfish
List of famous restaurants in "Guijie":
North Street:
Xiaoshancheng, Fuhuilong Restaurant, Huda Restaurant, Little Sheep, Sulitan Kebab Shop, Little Qingdao, Fisherman's BBQ House, Yunnan Cross-Bridge Rice Noodles, Baoheju, Border Town, Dumenchong, Xiangkou Fish Restaurant, Tongliyuan Restaurant, Legend of Shu, Fengshengzhai, Dongxing Tower, Huajia Yiyuan, Penpen Fresh, Xiaodongtian, Guizhou Sour Soup Fish
South Street:
Xiaolin Restaurant, Tongle Hotel, Zixia Restaurant, Alin Restaurant, Fuxuanju, Jinyanghong, Mingxuan Ju, Taoyuan Restaurant, Chongqing Roasted Chicken, Tianyi Pavilion, Miaoling Sour Fish Soup, Yuefu House, Rio Brazilian Barbeque, Yixiang Pavilion
The best place to eat spicy food - Jingui Restaurant Shancheng
One of the original restaurants on Guijie Street, this is a great place to eat "Ma Xiao" (another name for Guijie "Spicy Prawns"). At NT$6 per serving, people who love spicy food can eat until they are full. There are three attached courtyards and large private rooms here, making it a popular place with the atmosphere of old Beijing.
Price: less than 100 yuan/person
Address: No. 183 and No. 253
The best skewers - Xiaoyushan
One of the busiest beer gardens in summer, it recently built a new shed and added 4 gas grills to keep you warm while enjoying cold beer (8 yuan). In addition to delicious skewers, barbecue seafood is a specialty here. You can choose fish, shellfish (8 yuan), shrimp (48 yuan) and soft-shell turtle from the tank. Remember to reserve a seat on weekends.
Price: less than 100 yuan/2 people
Address: No. 195
The best place for night owls - Minghui Mansion
Literally "the house of light and fire", this is the place to be at 4am after a midnight party. Open 24 hours a day, Minghui Fu sells almost all the Guijie specialties: Peking duck (88 yuan), Sichuan boiled fish (42 yuan), spicy grilled fish, as well as skewers and the gold-medal dish "roast chicken with bamboo sticks" (48 yuan) Yuan).
Price: 100 yuan/2 people
Address: No. 199-201
The best hot pot - Little Sheep
" "Little Sheep" is the leader of Mongolian hot pot. It is very famous. Last year, it opened four branches in Canada and the United States. The lamb comes directly from Inner Mongolia and is cooked in a delicious clear soup, with the best flavors blended into the soup.
Price: 100 yuan/2 people
Address: No. 209
The best spicy hotpot - Xiaodongtian
"Spicy "Tang" (numbing, spicy and hot) is a Sichuan street snack that contains a variety of spices. The format is a lot like "hot pot," but you don't cook it yourself. Vegetables, tofu, meatballs, and even chicken livers are skewered and cooked in spicy soup. All you need to do is eat until your tongue tingles.
Price: less than 100 yuan/2 people
Address: No. 269
The best rice noodles - novel food
" "Rice noodles" is just one of the Yunnan specialties here, and the price is between 18 yuan and 128 yuan. "Crossing the Bridge Rice Noodles" has as many as 30 kinds of ingredients. Mutton rice noodles (18 yuan) are sprinkled with mint. Other Yunnan delicacies include "Mountain Chicken Hotpot" (42 yuan) and "Palm Leaf Steamed Fish" (42 yuan).
Price: 100 yuan or less/2 people
Address: No. 15-1
The best grilled fish - Du Men Chong
This store has transformed "grilled fish". The grilled fish they make is grilled on top of vegetables and other ingredients. Compared with other restaurants on Guijie Street, the catfish (38 yuan/catty) and grass carp (28 yuan/piece) here are very comparable. Dumenchong has two stores on Guijie Street, so if one is full, don’t wander around in despair.
Price: 100 yuan/2 people
Address: No. 5-3 and No. 208
The best date place - wedding banquet
This is a French restaurant and it certainly lives up to its name (wedding banquet) when it comes to character and luxury. It is famous for its foie gras and beef rolls.
Business set meals (lunch) range in price from 98 to 528 yuan, and the 228 yuan set meal containing foie gras is said to be the best. Wedding also has a reputation for its excellent service and beautiful gardens.
Price: 500-600 yuan/2 people
Address: No. 5-11
The most delicious boiled fish - Huang Ji Huang
In Mongolian, it means "cooked fish" and is the way emperors ate fish in the past. The fish tastes so good that its inventor (Mr. Huang, after whom the restaurant is named) won political power. The fish is cooked in three patented sauces (soy sauce, hoisin sauce or tomato sauce) until the water boils, and the vegetables are added. The price of fish is 28-48 yuan/catty, and the price of vegetables/tofu is 8-10 yuan/portion.
Price: 150 yuan/2 people
Address: No. 10-9
Now Guijie has become a representative of Beijing’s food culture and a symbol of fashionable dining and people. A yearning in the heart, a joy, even a conversation after dinner. Many people's experience of "spending the night" began here; and people almost unanimously chose to spend all the exciting days in this city here, such as the successful bid for the Olympic Games, Chinese football going global, the Asian Cup defeat of Japan, etc. People here stay up all night to vent their anger. Everyone sings, curses, drinks, shouts, hugs, and cries together. The whole street is restless every night. This is the current Guijie Street.
Beijing has many famous snacks, such as stewed stew, fried tripe, sheep scorpion, etc. In recent years, a food street featuring spicy crayfish has emerged in Beijing. This street is Guijie. Guijie welcomes diners from all over the world 24 hours a day with its civilian service. Next, let’s go to Guijie to have a look.
Feature 1: Spicy Crayfish
Gui refers to a food container with a round mouth and two ears in ancient China. A street is named after Gui, so it is naturally a place to eat. Spicy dishes such as spicy crayfish and spicy meat crab are the main dishes of Guijie. The spicy and spicy aroma attracts many repeat customers.
Feature 2: Civilian services
Popular prices and considerate services are the main reasons for this street’s booming business.
Feature 3: Open 24 hours
89 years ago, there were only a few restaurants on this street, because there would always be a group of customers coming for late-night snacks after 9 p.m. , several restaurants extended their business hours one after another, and later simply changed to open 24 hours a day. Since its development, there are more than a hundred all-day restaurants on the street less than 1 kilometer long. From six o'clock in the afternoon to four o'clock in the morning the next day, Guijie Street is the busiest time for business. Guijie has become a part of Beijing’s night culture. Its significance has gone beyond the scope of restaurants and wine shops, and more reflects an aspect of the daily life of ordinary people in Beijing.