Beijing Gongdelin Vegetable Dish Restaurant (Buddhist Vegetable Food)

  As a designated restaurant by Beijing Tourism Administration, Beijing Gongdelin Vegetable Dish Restaurant is the only one offering Buddhist Vegetable Dishes in Beijing. Gongdelin Restaurant was set up in Shanghai in 1922 by Zhao Yunshao, student of Master Monk Weijun of Changji Temple in Chenghuang Mountain in Hangzhou. Beijing Gongdelin Restaurant started its business in 1984, built and operates in accordance with Shanghai Gongdelin Restaurant. As a designated restaurant for tourist in Beijing, it has the plaque inscribed by Zhao Puchu, Director of China Association of Buddhism.

  Gongdelin Restaurant majors in Yangzhou food and meets the north flavor. With well-chosen cooking material, fine cutting skill and rich cooking methods, it is distinguished in making vegetable dishes with original taste. Vegetable foods made by Gongdelin taste and look like meat, meanwhile, they are artworks. The dishes are not only pleasant-looking but also nutrient and good for health. Gongdelin is featured with its golden-colored Moon Cakes which are made of materials from unpolluted mountain areas in traditional handwork.

Featured dishes: Sautéed Crab-Powder Noodle, Plain Sautéed Crab-Powder Noodle, Sautéed Shrimp and Longan, Gongde Bean Curt, Eighteen Arhats