Monthly Archives: June 2011

beijing: tan-family cuisine at guo yao xiao ju (国肴小居)

beijing: tan-family cuisine at guo yao xiao ju (国肴小居)

I wish I’d had my family here to share this experience with, because this is just the sort of place I can see my relatives booking a room at for special occasions. I’d never heard of Tan Family Cuisine before, but this is what’s served at Guo Yao Xiao Ju (The Little Place of Guo) — a tiny, unassuming restaurant tucked into a hutong. You wouldn’t really guess from the entrance that this place serves …

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beijing: noodle loft (面酷)

beijing: noodle loft (面酷)

This is one of the restaurants on my to-try list from my last trip to Beijing that I never got to, and so it was one of the first ones I made sure to visit this time. It turned out to be so much fun I had high hopes of returning to sample more dishes. But alas, the one location left (I think there used to be two) is so far away it doesn’t seem …

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