Line 1 is not only the first subway line, but also the busiest and the most essential artery of rail transit in Beijing. The historical subway line strings full of Beijingers' memories. Today, let's take a look at the delicacies along the line.
Sihui Station ---- Jinniuhaiji Chaoshan Beef Hotpot
Although it is a Chaoshan hotpot restaurant, it also provides spicy-hot-flavored seasonings, which are not inferior to Sichuan hotpot seasonings at all. The handmade beef balls are chewy and fresh; the sliced snowflake beef is especially delicious, so tender that it just melt in your mouth, but not greasy; beef tendons here are pliable and tasty; the sliced rib eye is particularly fresh and tender, and the texture would be extremely nice when served with satay sauce. The time and duration of boiling each dish of meat is marked on its plate. So, you can see how conscientious and considerate the restaurant is.
Address: 02b, Building 3, A, Legend Town, No.1 Balizhuang Dongli 八里庄东里一号莱锦产业园a区3号楼02b
Price Per Person: 119 yuan
Tel.: 010-57101989
Dawanglu Station ---- Sajiao Chilli Restaurant
Sajiao fried chicken with chilli, a signature dish of Sajiao Chilli Restaurant, is attractive. The fried chicken chunks are crispy and savoury, and the fried chillies are so appetizing that diners would rather eat them despite their hot flavor than throw them away. Fried sliced fish with chilli and tofu is very fresh and tender. Without any fishbone in it, the spicy fish meat can be gorged at ease after slightly shaking the chillies off.
Address: L4-15A, Hopson One, No. 21 West Dawang Road西大望路21号合生汇L4-15A
Price Per Person: 98 yuan
Guomao Station ---- Taoyuan Village
Taoyuan Village is a snack restaurant praised a lot. The youtiao (a long golden-brown deep-fried strip of dough) here is a must must-try. It is not only tasty but also of abundant amount. Crispy and fried golden, it tastes terrific after dipped into oyster sauce. Moreover, the soy milk here is very thick, among which the date-flavored one with moderate sweetness tastes particularly nice. The rice ball with minced meat and salty tofu pudding here are also recommended.
Address: 3B101B&C, Basement 1, North Area of China World Mall, No. 1 Jianguomen Outer Street建国门外大街1号国贸商城北区地下一层3B101B&C
Price Per Person: 30 yuan
Jianguomen Station ---- Paranoid Rice Noodle
Although the rice noodles here are "paranoid", their tastes are "sane" and "credible". The prices here are so friendly that you will be fed to the point of bursting with merely 30 yuan. In addition to the authentic tastes, the environment here is hygienic. The rice noodles with tomato-flavored beef cubes are sour and hot. You will be fully satisfied without leaving one sip of soup.
Address: No. 3, Basement 2, SK Building, No. 6A Jianguomen Outer Street建国门外甲6号SK大厦B2层3号
Price Per Person: 34 yuan
Dongdan Station ---- Teochew Porridge
The Teochew Porridge sells palatable Cantonese cuisine. The ganbeixiaxie porridge (porridge with dried shellfish, shrimp and crab) is of a strong seafood flavor, and the white porridge is pretty thick, appetizing and tasty when served with salty pickles. Jinsha red rice sausage looks bright and tastes crispy, with stuffs similar to crisp thin fritter twists rolled in it. The red sausages are fit for all sorts of porridges in the restaurant.
Address: Floor 5, Beijing APM, Wangfujing Street 王府井大街APM商场5层
Price Per Person: 80 yuan
Wangfujing Station ---- Longtangli
Niangao (rice cake) stirStir-fried Niangao (rice cake) with crabs in Longtangli restaurant is irresistible, abundant and inexpensive ---- the niangao is tasty and crab yolk is salty, oily but not greasy. Xiedibing (a kind of sesame cake) is fried crispy and thin; with a little sweet flavor, it tastes like biscuits. You will feel like having experienced a feast after eating the dishes up.
Address: No.606 Beijing Mall, No.301 Wangfujing Street王府井大街301号新燕莎金街购物广场606号
Price Per Person: 65 yuan
Xidan Station ---- Freakshake
You can get a super big cup of Like a Velvet Freakshake at merely 45 yuan, which is totally an incredible price here in Xidan. The cream is luscious, and you won’t feel greasy no matter how much you've eaten. There's also a strawberry-flavored ice sucker Popsicle inserted on the top, which is fresh and cool, and you will clearly sense the strawberry sarcocarp in your mouth. And the shack is so abundant that you can hardly finish it by your own.
Address: No.12-13 Shops, Floor 9, Joy City Xidan, Xidan North Street西单北大街西单大悦城9层12-13号商铺
Price Per Person: 45 yuan
Nanlishilu Station ---- BBQ Wrangler
The barbeque restaurant BBQ Wrangler abruptly became popular recently. Though it is hidden at an unnoticeable place, it appeals to masses of people. You will be pleased to finish a small bunch of roasted kebab lamb or tendons for only one bite, or enjoy tender and juicy big bunches of barbeques. And the tossed wheat gluten in the restaurant is tasty and refreshing, which is the best choice to relive the hot flavor lingered in your mouth after gorging spicy barbeques.
Address: Southwest corner of the intersection of Nanlishilu Santiao and Erqijuchang Dongli南礼士路三条与二七剧场东里交叉口西南角
Price Per Person: 85 yuan
Gongzhufen Station ---- Feng Cha
As the name suggests, the store provides all kinds of creative tea drinks. The Oreo cheese milk tea in the restaurant, blended with chocolate powders and sweet cheese, is of a lovely texture despite its high calorie. The rose oolong tea with mousse has moderate sweetness, together with fragrance of rose and slight bitterness of oolong.
Address: Floor 4, Beijing Urban-rural Trade Center, No. 23A Fuxing Road 复兴路甲23号北京城乡贸易中心4层
Price Per Person: 19 yuan
Wukesong Station ---- Kuan Fan
The restaurant mainly serves Cantonese cuisine, a pure and clean flavor. You cannot reject the taste of fresh and salty Chaoshan crab porridge, and the appetizing crab meat is so abundant that you can feel it whenever you take a sip. The classical rice with Chinese sausage and preserved meat here is particularly luscious after sprinkled with sauce.
Address: No. 89, North area of LIVE•hi-up, No. 69 Fuxing Road复兴路69号华熙LIVE•hi-up南区89号
Price Per Person: 70 yuan
Babaoshan Station ---- Jinbaiwan Roast Duck Restaurant
The restaurant has retain the fragrance of Beijing duck commendably. Close your eyes and imagine the picture that a piece of crispy duck skin, a chunk of lean duck meat, a green little cucumber and two shredded scallion rolled by a piece of popiah with sweet bean sauce smeared on its inner side is slowly sent into your mouth; you take a bite of it, and are immersed in the juicy and fragrant flavor. In addition, the hot dishes here also go well with rice, with bright colors and delicious tastes.
Address: CRI Media Center, 16-2 Yanzheng Street (near Babaoshan Subway Station)严正街16-2号国广公寓(近八宝山地铁)
Price Per Person: 80 yuan
Bajiaoyouleyuan Station ---- The Frypan
Fried chicken platter with an awesome taste is particularly recommended ---- the tender and juicy fried chicken served with golden sauce is fragrant but not greasy at all. The forces pot here should be more aptly called forces cheese pot, for a full layer of cheese is sprinkled on the top. You would feel in the paradise if you are a cheese complex. Served with niangao (glutinous rice cake), the pot can be eaten “all day long”.
Address: B1060, Basement 1, Rongke Creative Center, Bajiao East Street八角东街融科创意中心地下一层B1060号
Price Per Person: 69 yuan
Pingguoyuan Station ---- Beiping Fanzhuang
As the name suggests, it is a standard old Peking restaurant offering authentic Beijing dishes. The Baylor's roasted meat is recommendation, for When having Baylor's roasted meat in the restaurant, customers can personally control the duration and degree of heating and concoct the meat flavor according to their own preferences when eating it. The texture of the roasted streaky pork is fresh and tender. In addition, it also provides classical Beijing snacks like the platter of lvdagun (fried chop rice cake) and kidney bean roll. Don’t miss any one of them!
Address: Floor 5, Guanhui Business Building, No. 5 Shixing Street实兴大街5号冠辉商务大厦5层
Price Per Person: 83 yuan
