To savor the excellent farm feasts in the suburbs of Beijing may be the best choice for an outing and you can share pleasant time with your friends and relatives meanwhile!
Boli Feast of Bolitai Village in Pinggu District
The Bolitai Village is known for its abundant silver dollar plants (crassula arborescens) whose pronunciation is “Bo Li Shu” in Chinese. The leaves of the trees can be used in Chinese cuisine, and it is said that their rich nutrition including amino acids is good for people’s hearts, lungs and eyes. Now the village offers new four pot dishes and eight plate dishes meaning that “to bless someone is well organized in his work” in Chinese. You will enjoy the green and unpolluted cuisine here.
Zhengde Spring Pancake Feast of Kangling Village in Changping District
Spring pancake (Chunbing) is as thin as cicada’s wing. There are more than twenty dishes in spring pancake feast including pork with salted vegetable, braised pork shoulder with soy sauce, lettuce salad. The dishes are various and distinctive in their flavors. Besides, the spring pancake also conveys profound culture. Most villagers of the Kangling village, located in the tourist zone of the Ming tombs, are the descendants of tomb watchers. Perhaps you can hear some interesting stories of the Ming dynasty from those villagers.
Address: Kangling Village, Changling Town, Changping District
Walnuts Feast of Lingshui Village in Mentougou District
Surrounded by picturesque hills, the Lingshui Village is located in the Zhaitang Town, Mentougou District. As walnuts are nutritive, they are utilized by the villagers to satisfy people who keep healthy by diet. Recommended dishes are oiled flapjack with walnuts, pork joint stewed with rock sugar and Jingxi steamed pork.
Imperial Chicken of Yufa Town in Daxing District
The Beijing fatty chicken, also known as the Chinese imperial chicken, used to be a designated dish in the feast of founding ceremony in 1949. It is praised as the best chicken in the world and is used to being exported to Japan. It is found that the Beijing fatty chicken contains a higher nutritional value and rich fine meat fiber. The abundant palatable elements in it such as free-amino acid (FAA) stearic aldehyde and myristic aldehyde make it more luscious.
Fish Head Feast in Miyun District
The main ingredient of the authentic fish head feast is the head of fresh big head carp, which is simmered with soy sauce. Fat but not greasy, the dish tastes much better with dipping-sauce tortilla. The fish head is the main course of the feast but the rest parts of the fish are delicious as well. The soy-sauce-braised middle part and the dry-braised fish tail, along with fried shrimp, a delicious fish head feast will truly surprise you.
Address: Thirteen Kilometers from the North of Miyun District (Miyun Reservoir)
Toufu Feast of Liugou Village in Yanqing District
Located in the Jingzhuang Town in Yanqing District, the Liugou Village is famed for tofu feast, also called hot pot tofu feast, which serves up three kinds of tofu in different colors with different effects. Mung bean tofu can help people reduce internal heat; black bean tofu is benefit kidney; the white tofu is made from soybean. Three-color tofu hotpot is the main course of tofu feast, with Chinese cabbage at the bottom and streaky pork at the top. The soup of the hotpot is simmered with various ingredients. And then you can start to feed yourself with delicacies.
Address: Liugou Village, Jingzhuang Town, Yanqing District
Rainbow Trout Feast of Yanqi Town in Huairou District
“The Buyegu Valley” in the Yanqi Town is famous for rainbow trout feast in the suburbs of Beijing. Divided into eastern and western zone, “the Buyegu Valley” gathers several holiday resorts and tourist attractions such as the Laomo Villa and the Shentangyu Natural Scenic Spot. You can take your first stop at the Hongluo Temple and enjoy the scenery of Shentangyu. And then you can savor rainbow trout feast and local-style dishes with wine and relax in a cool and moon-lit night.
Venison Feast of Jinlu Jiayuan in Tongzhou District
According to the records of Compendium of Materia Medica written by Li Shizhen, a herbalist and acupuncturist of the Ming dynasty, the venison is helpful for people’s health. It has been used both in Western style food and Chinese cuisine for a long time. The venison can be cooked in various ways such as salt baked venison, roast venison, deerhorn blood wine.
Address: One Kilometer from the South of Beijing International Book Mall, Taihu Town, Tongzhou District.
