In Beijing you can find a lot of the same food they serve you in restaurants in NYC (save for General Tso's), but what's the point of eating the same old stuff? During our trip, we tried to taste as many local specialties as we could. However, we left without trying the live scorpions and seahorses on a stick that were for sale at the stalls in Wangfujing Avenue...
Chinese pancake with onions is a popular alternative to rice in the countryside.
Mongolian stew. Doesn't look like much, but it's delicious.
Rice porridge with corn makes a nice side dish.
Chrysanthemum tea. We also tried Oolong, jasmine, rose, lychee, Puerr and green tea.
Mr. Sha (the cricket man) and his family offered us some cherry sweets.
One cannot go to Beijing and pass on Peking Duck.
This is duck feet. Yes, we actually ate them (not a whole lot though.) They taste very fatty and have a weird consistency, sort of rubbery. Not something on my list to try again.
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