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A fashionable, superior chain owned by a Beijing-based artist serving authentic Yunnanese food. Diners can sample all manner of flowers, insects, and mysterious animal parts, as well as more conventional dishes (see South Silk Road).
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Lending library, bar, and a great place for healthy light lunches.
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Popular Sanlitun pub that does excellent wood-fired pizzas (see The Tree).
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Test your taste buds on the likes of sour fish soup and a startling take on ribs and mashed potato (see Three Guizhou Men).
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Authentic Guizhou food, uncompromisingly spicy and sour, is generally too coarse for foreign tastes, but here it is blended with more conventional Chinese flavors. The atmosphere is stylish, in keeping with the local hipster fondness for minority cuisines (see Three Guizhou Men).
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Tea ceremonies with food and bite-sized cultural morsels at the upstairs theater.
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One of the best known teahouses in town. Teas and snacks, plus duck dinners, and nightly Beijing Opera and acrobats.
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A line up of 40 or 50 stalls entice and repulse in equal measure with meat kabobs but also flame-grilled snake and scorpions.
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Kabob, noodle, and soup stalls fill a narrow alley off the bottom end of Wangfujing Dajie.
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Decorated with ornate Qing-style furniture. Just over the road from the Purple Vine.
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Restaurant price categories
For the equivalent of a meal for two made up of a range of dishes, served with tea, and including service.
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