I eat one piece of food and am determined to travel all over the famous mountains and rivers of the motherland and eat snacks all over the motherland in my spare time. So, I want to visit Beijing on the weekend.

Accommodation: Unknown Hotel Nanluogu Lane Branch

In the dazzling array of shops in Nanluo Ancient Lane, there is Starbucks next to it, which houses China's largest popcorn factory. The rooms are also spacious and bright, making it a very suitable hotel to live in.

Day 1: Near Nanluogu Lane

Nanluogu Lane and its surrounding area were once the city center of the Yuan Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they were a rich and noble place. Now they are alleys full of commercial atmosphere. There are various small shops on both sides, selling snacks, drinks, postcards, and various toys. It is so lively.

Tips: Nanluogu Lane is very close to Yandai Xie Street and Shichahai. You can play together.

If you are interested, you can stroll around the relatively quiet alleys, which is very interesting.

Ice cream is not cheap, ranging from 10 to 20 yuan each. The taste is okay, but it is not as amazing as Wu Yutai's ice cream!

Madiel has many branches in Beijing. Students who want to eat can pay attention to it!

Everyone must be looking forward to the "naked photos" of ice cream! Sorry, I won't let it go if I don't take it alone!

Wenyu Cheese Store (Nanluogu Lane Store)

A well-known restaurant tastes just like this, and it tastes similar to a dessert shop in Shanghai. Beijingers probably like dairy products very much. There are many cheese shops, such as Wenyu Cheese Shop, Sanyuan Meiyuan Cheese Shop, etc., and all taste similar.

The business is very good. I think they all came here because of their fame. The refrigerator is full of dairy products. Do the staff here also smell the fragrance of milk?

On the left is cheese, and on the right is mango double skin milk. Hehe, I still like fruits! It is recommended to buy products with added fruits!

Wenkao Chi Bar

I turned around in the alley and found a family of wings. I thought I wanted to eat roasted brain flowers, so I didn't order more. I ordered two portions of roasted wings and a portion of grilled fish tofu. In the end, I was told by the boss that I ordered too little and couldn't eat it in the hall. I had no choice but to settle it on the spot in the alley. There are many wing bars in Beijing, and there are many flavors of roasted wings. Unfortunately, the chicken wings are too small and I always feel that the taste is not full enough. It's really not satisfying to eat them all in one go.

Forgive me for not taking photos of the packed food, but I took the menu to leave some memories for everyone. In the store, I saw a big brother with a red face and drinking beer crazily. When I asked, I realized that my brother ordered spicy wings in big sauce. Although he looked so spicy, he even highly recommended me to eat them!

Brain Processing Factory

In order to make up for the regret that I didn't eat my brain yesterday, I came to this restaurant to eat roasted brain flowers. Since I had never tasted the authentic Sichuan roasted brain flowers, I thought it was still very delicious. A set meal has three brains + rice, which are the signature flavor, spicy flavor and fermented bean flavor. It is indeed the signature flavor. It is more fragrant than spicy flavor and has a dense taste. It's just that if you eat so many brains, you feel like your own liver is complaining. Is it a step further from fatty liver?

Eat brain flowers while they are hot, it will smell fishy when it is cold!

yandai xiejie

It is a very popular street near Shichahai. The street is full of shops selling goods, with a strong commercial atmosphere. I happened to meet a small comic book exhibition, which was a cartoonist's memories of his childhood life in Beijing hutongs, such as catching small goldfish, eating candied haws, singing children's songs, etc. I also met an enthusiastic old man who sang the children's song to me,"Buffalo, first out of its horns, then out of its head." This is a pure and strong Beijing flavor. Great!

Yandai Slope Street is obviously much hotter! You can walk to Shichahai through the small path.

Sugar blowers are rare in Shanghai, but I always feel that they are full of breath and saliva, and I dare not try.

gongwangfu

Gong's Mansion was the residence of Heshen in the Qing Dynasty. The ancients paid great attention to feng shui in building houses and gardens. It is said that there are two dragon veins in Beijing, one is the earth dragon, which is the dragon vein of the Forbidden City; the other is the dragon dragon vein, which points to the line between Houhai and Beihai. Gong's Mansion is right on the connecting line between Houhai and Beihai, that is, on the dragon vein, so the feng shui is very good. It is said that Gong's Mansion was designed by Heshen himself at the beginning, and he spent a lot of thought in many places. I suggest that friends who travel freely visit a tour guide so that they can learn many wonderful stories!

Heshen's treasure pavilion does not need to be taken care of by others, but what treasures are stored in it and how does Heshen distinguish them? He distinguishes them through different window grids at the back of the house. Different window shapes represent different collections. The treasure pavilion on the upper and lower floors actually has as many as 18 rooms.

The house under the sunset is peaceful and mysterious.

The only remaining Xiyang Gate is said to be similar to the Xiyang Gate in Yuanmingyuan before it was burned down.

longwangmiao

After visiting Gong Wang's Mansion, we set out to find food. Gong Wang's Mansion is a large courtyard and has good feng shui. Just like He Shen's life, there was once one person above ten thousand people. However, when there were big ups and downs, there were always big ups and downs. In the end, He Shen's family was completely destroyed. The feng shui in the yard was excellent, but why did the excellent feng shui fail in the end? This is worth reflecting on, it is not that excellent feng shui is the most suitable feng shui!

Wang Pangzi Donkey Meat Huoshao

Before coming to Beijing, I heard a restaurant strongly recommended by my colleague. He must eat his donkey meat roast.

The appearance of this fire is much different from the previous fire. It is cut in half. The donkey meat is marinated and a little salty. In fact, I think if I add some vegetables, the taste will be more layered.

The donkey meat pot is also a little salty, but overall it is good. However, Beijing tastes are all salty, so you can remind the restaurant appropriately!

I made an appointment with a friend to eat authentic Beijing roast duck, haha! Now let's talk about Cheap Fang and Quanjude. This is what I only learned when I was writing travel notes. Let's share it with you.

During the early Ming Dynasty, ordinary people loved to eat Nanjing cured duck, and so did the emperor. It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty,"ate a roast duck in a solar eclipse." The royal chefs in the court tried every means to develop new ways to eat duck dishes to please the Lord, so they also developed two kinds of roasted pork roast duck and braised roast duck. The roast pork roast duck is represented by "Quanjude", while the braised roast duck is most famous for "Bianyifang".

Quanjude adopts the hanging stove roasting method and does not cut open ducks. Just make a small hole in the duck's body, take out the internal organs, then fill the duck's stomach with boiling water, then tie the small hole and hang it on the fire to roast it. This method not only prevents the duck from losing water due to being roasted, but also allows the duck skin to expand without being roasted soft. The roasted duck skin is very thin and crisp, making it the best part of the roast duck. The hanging stove has holes but no door. Fruit trees such as jujube wood and pear wood are used as fuel and open fire is used. When the fruit wood is fired, it is smoke-free, has a strong primer, and has a long burning time. The roasted ducks have a full appearance, a date red color, crispy skin, tender burnt outside and tender inside, and have a fragrance of fruit wood. When tasted carefully, the taste is even more wonderful. Strictly speaking, the only roasting method is called Beijing Roast Duck.

Bianyifang's "stewing furnace" method is actually a kind of underground furnace. The furnace body is made of bricks and is about one meter square in size. Its production method was first introduced to Beijing from the south. It is characterized by "ducks cannot see open flames". It is made by braising over charcoal fire in the stove and hot stove walls. Due to the need for dark fire, high technology is required. The stove owner must control the temperature in the stove. If the temperature is too high, the ducks will be burnt, and otherwise, they will not be cooked. The stewed roast duck has bright and crisp skin, white and tender meat, and delicious taste. The roast duck in the stewed stove is the signature of Yiyi Fang, but the stewed stove for burning straw has long been changed into an electric stewed stove. Nowadays, few roast duck restaurants use stewing stoves, and most roast duck restaurants use the Quanjude hanging stove roasting method. The stewed roast duck tastes more tender, and the juice of the duck skin is obviously more plump. The fruit and wood fragrance of the hanging roast duck seems to allow the human body to understand the wisdom of the "roasting" cooking method that humans first mastered.

Dadong Roast Duck Restaurant (slightly less famous than the above two, but it is also very delicious), diagonally opposite the Beijing-Guangzhou Center, the dishes are very particular. It is really baked with apple wood, and the taste and taste are beyond question.

Here are three ways to eat Beijing Roast Duck:

The first way to eat: It is said that it was developed by the ladies in the big house gate. They don't eat onions or garlic, but they like to dip the crisp and crispy duck skin in thin white sugar to eat it. After that, when Quanjude's waiter saw a female guest coming, he would follow the roast duck and serve a small plate of white sugar.

The second way to eat it: Sweet flour sauce with onion strips, which can be paired with cucumber strips and radish strips. Use chopsticks to pick up a little sweet flour sauce, spread it on the lotus leaf cake, put a few slices of roast duck on top, and then put a few onion strips, cucumber strips or radish strips, roll up the lotus leaf cake, it is really delicious.

The third way to eat it: mashed garlic with sweet flour sauce, or with radish strips, etc. Eating duck meat with lotus leaf cake was also a popular seasoning in the early years. Mashed garlic can relieve grease. Dip the slices of roast duck into mashed garlic and sweet flour sauce to add a hint of spiciness to the freshness and make the flavor more unique. Many customers particularly prefer this seasoning.

There are two types of Bianyifang Roast Duck, 1416 is the original flavor, and the other has the flavor of flowers. Since you are here, you should eat the signature. The reason why it is called 1416 is because Bianyifang started its business in the 14th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 1416 AD. This is half a roast duck. It looks rare. Half a roast duck does not contain side dishes such as cakes, sauce, and onions. It needs to be purchased extra. If you buy the whole one, you will have side dishes and a duck rack.

Let's talk about the taste. Unlike Shanghai, many restaurants in Shanghai only put duck skin slices on them to make cakes. The skin slices of Beijing roast duck come with meat on them, so they won't feel too greasy. They will be very delicious when eaten alone. The duck skin is crispy, not as thin as potato chips. Please pay attention to the word "crisp". It feels like a solid crispy feeling when biting on the lard residue, but it is not greasy. You can obviously feel the aroma brought by the duck skin in your mouth. The meat is very tender and the cake skin is very thin. You must eat it while it is hot. You can feel the crispy, tender, soft and waxy taste, coupled with the refreshing of cucumber, the rushing taste of Beijing onions, the rich sauce, and the happiness. Bursting! Absolutely extraordinary!

Mustard duck's feet, made from boneless duck's feet and mustard and other seasonings. It's not mustard sauce, but mustard powder. The taste is not as strong as mustard sauce, but relatively soft. The duck's feet are handled very well. There is no weird "athlete's foot" taste. O(∩_∩)O~

The three people at the next table entered the restaurant without looking at the menu. They ordered half a roast duck and three bowls of noodles, so I was very curious about how delicious the noodles were. In fact, it was tomato and spinach noodles. It tasted inexperienced, but it was still very comfortable for me, who was shivering from the cold at the time!

It was definitely enough for two little girls to order this order. I also have a male friend who ate a whole roast duck, duck rack soup, and mustard duck feet alone. If you think the appetite is good, you can try it!

the next day

I originally wanted to go to the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall and the National Museum, but I had no choice but to go to the Monument to the People's Heroes early in the morning to lay flowers. Tiananmen Square was under martial law and was not allowed to enter, so I had to move forward the later itinerary!

Lama Temple

Yonghegong was the highest standard Buddhist temple in the country in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. When Yongzheng died in the 13th year of Yongzheng, the coffin was parked here. Therefore, the original green glazed tiles of the main hall of Yonghe Palace were changed to yellow glazed tiles. Because Emperor Qianlong was born here, Yonghe Palace had two emperors and became a "dragon hidden land". There are many and beautiful Buddha statues and Thangkas in Lama Temple, so you can pay attention to them.

The most interesting thing was that when I was getting out of the subway, I met Marie, a Danish student, who was traveling and couldn't find the Lama Temple. It happened that I also came to the map to figure out the route, so the two of them had a pleasant tour together. Marie likes China very much and came to Beijing during the holidays to study calligraphy and Chinese. She said that she especially likes Chinese temples, which are colorful and beautiful. She also likes to experience the atmosphere and culture of China firsthand. Her next stop is to Nanjing and Hefei. We communicated in half English and half Chinese throughout the trip. She completely understood what I said. It was so touching. Moreover, how can I explain clearly the various strange things in the temple? I don't even know what they mean. When we parted, Marie gave me a Danish 5-yuan coin as a souvenir, and I also wrote a postcard from Shanghai and sent it to Denmark. I hope she can receive it smoothly!

Wu Yutai Ice Cream Cone (Yonghegong Street Store)

Wu Yutai was founded in 1887 and is a famous tea shop in Beijing. When he learned about their ice cream in other travel notes, he felt he had to try it. There are two flavors of ice cream, one is matcha and the other is scented tea. The scented tea flavor I tasted for the first time was Jasmine. Judging from the appearance, there were finely divided tea leaves. Sure enough, the tea flavor was strong and the mouth was fragrant. I tried matcha in the next few days. Maybe there are too many matcha flavors on the market, so I didn't find it particularly amazing. In comparison, I still think the scented tea is better. Other shops will also sell some drinks, so if you are interested, you can try it.

Confucius Temple

You can walk to the Imperial College along the path opposite the Yonghegong Temple, where the Confucian Temple is located. The Confucian Temple was a place where Confucius was sacrificed in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties in China. It is also known as the Four Great Confucian Temples in China, together with Nanjing Confucius Temple, Jilin Confucius Temple and Qufu Confucian Temple. There are 198 steles titled by Jinshi from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in the Confucius Temple. You can find works by many celebrities.

the Imperial College

Guozijian (Jian Fourth Sound) was the central official school in ancient China after the Sui Dynasty. It was the highest institution of learning in the ancient Chinese education system. It was also known as Guozi School or Guozi Temple. The Imperial College is large and peaceful. You can imagine countless students studying and taking exams here. I think today's college entrance examination and postgraduate entrance examination are a changed imperial examination system. However, there are too many people who have obtained certificates nowadays, so it is no longer possible to assign students to work, let alone become officials.

It has been raining for two days, and the feeling of spring has become more and more intense.