You can taste most palatable snacks and cuisine along this route. Come and enjoy the Peking flavor!

Route:

Start: Niujie

End: Beihai Park

Distance: about 8.1 km

Highlights:

• Niu Jie:

Niujie (牛街 in Chinese) is a neighborhood at Guang'anmen, Xicheng District in southwest Beijing that has two main attractions – the mosque and food. The restaurants alongside this street feature various palatable cuisines which are famous for exquisite appearance and delicious tastes.

Things to Do: Jubaoyuan Restaurant (聚宝源), Turpan Restaurant (吐鲁番餐厅), Deshunlou (德顺楼), Nai Lao Wei (奶酪魏)

• Dashilanr:

Dashilanr (大栅栏 in Chinese) is located to the south of Tian’anmen Square, west of Qianmen Street. The overall length of Dashilanr is 275m from east to west. With a long history, it was also the former entertainment center of Beijing where five grand Chinese opera theatersare located. The street also boasts many time-honored brands of Beijing, well-known both in China and abroad, including Tongrentang (同仁堂), Ruifuxiang (瑞蚨祥), Majuyuan (马聚源) etc. To learn more, click here http://www.dashilar.org/

• Beihai Park:

Beihai Park (北海公园) is a public park and former imperial garden located in the northwestern part of Beijing. First built in the 11th century, it is among the largest of all Chinese gardens and contains numerous historically important structures, palaces, and temples. Since 1925, the place has been open to the public as a park. It is also connected at its northern end to Shichahai.

Various flowers in the park bloom all-year-roundand spring flowers March through May, lotus flowers blossom in July and August while chrysanthemum bloom in October and November.