Recommended Pasties: Peking-style steamed bun, Aiwowo, Five-color Wotou, Suede mooncakeBasing on Beijing’s traditional snacks and Manchu court pastries, Hua’s restaurant innovates some high-quality pasties of local feature. The signature pastries here include haw jelly, pea flour cake, French bean rolls, Aiwowo, Peking-style steamed bun, Lvdagun, and five-color wotou.

The Peking-style steamed bun, a local dairy snack in Beijing, tastes tender and creamy. Wandouhuang, or the pea flour cake, has a light yellow color. It tastes so tender that it melts in your mouth and so cool and fresh that it relieve the summer heat. Aiwowo is a traditional local snack in Beijing  made with sticky rice. As a snack of Muslim flavor, it boasts the following characteristics, specifically, white, ball-shaped, sticky, soft, sweet and delicious. Aiwowo enjoys a long history. As recorded in The Plum in the Golden Vase, a book composed in the Ming Dynasty, Aiwowo was one of the contemporary popular delicacies. Lv Da Gun, also known as bean flour cake, is one of the oldest snacks in Beijing. When making it, firstly, make little dough with soybean flour and roll the dough up with sweetened bean paste inside. Then trundle it in soybean dust at last. That is the reason why it gets a strange name 'rolling the donkey' in Chinese. The cake is yellow with dense soybean flavor and is featured by fragrant, sweet and glutinous.

The suede mooncake was a court dessert that has failed to be handed down from past generations. It is said that when Empress Dowager Cixi was very unhappy when she first saw the giant suede mooncakes, she patted the table which shook the white hair off the cake. The scene was so amazing that it calmed down her anger, and a bite of the cake won her heart - the suede mooncakes present a melt-in-the-mouth texture.

Hua's Restaurant at Tianxingjian Building

Add: 1/F-3/F, Tianxingjian Building, No. 47 Fuxing Road (30 meters to the west of Cuiwei Mansion), Haidian District, Beijing

Tel: 86 10 5128 3379