Friday, June 7, 2013

鸭王 (Duck King / King Roast Duck) @ Minzuyuan Road, Beijing

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Here is its address in Chinese: 朝阳区民族园路1号 which translates to 1 Minzuyuan Road, Chaoyang District.

Apparently ranked #399 out of 3901 restaurants in Beijing by Tripadvisor, and it made into Top Ten (#4) Peking Duck restaurants in Beijing based on a 2011 article.

restaurant's facade
cute chopstick holder

As usual, our choice of drink would be sour plum juice (酸梅汤) but this time, we had beer as well. And why not? Local beer is very very wallet friendly in Beijing! Beer brand like Yanjing have very light taste but it's refreshing on a warm night.

local beer
beer in a wine glass?

Happy to say that all the dishes that were on our table, tasted good. Just remember to state, "少盐少油" (shao yan, shao you) which means less salt and less oil, before the service staff sends out the order to the kitchen.

pig trotters
beef hotplate
pork ribs with corn


My senior manager adores the pork dishes (plus lotus roots) while I'd go for the beef. Vegetables was good too. Just the corn that's not agreeable. Don't quite like Beijing corn, because I think its texture is all wrong.

But of course, the highlight would be the Peking Duck, which was served last and rightly so. The portion of it wasn't that big to be shared for our table of 8 pax. If I remember correctly, the price of the Peking Duck was around ¥198 per bird (about SGD40), and it was roasted upon order.

Peking Duck
盐酥骨架 (deep fried bones with pepper and salt)


The duck skin was crackling and has enough oil. But the finale was its bone carcass which we requested for deep fried with salt and pepper (extra charge). Just the right snack for the cold beer.

If not wrong, the entire meal that night (with a couple more dishes that I didn't photograph and included vege, and lotus roots) costs less than ¥800 which was about SGD22 per pax for our group.

Thursday, June 6, 2013

康师傅私房厨牛肉面 (Master Kong Chef's Table) @ Minzuyuan Road, Beijing

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Located at No. 2 Minzuyuan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing. According to wiki, 康師傅 (Kang shi-fu or Master Kong) is a brand owned by Tingyi Holding Corp, from Taiwan.

The place is pretty close to the hotel that we're staying at.

shopfront
menu

Specializing in beef noodles, it also has rice option.

original sauce beef rice
half beef half tendon
 
yums
flat noodles
gold medal beef noodles soup
tender beef slices

The small dish of preserved vege helped to give the soup a little lift.

preserved vege

The soup was flavourful but not quite strong. There's vinegar on the table for that added oomph.

black fungus - side dish
dessert
red bean cake

For desserts, we ordered the coconut red bean white cake. It's like a pudding but a little more solid than pudding. Not overly sweet.

The main dish price ranged from ¥26 to ¥36. This place also has set meals and has options to top up for dessert/side-dish and a drink.

There's also a discount card that entitles the user a 12% discount. This card can be bought for ¥10, and comes with two luggage tag.

discount card with luggage tags

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

CM-PB @ Dempsey Road

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CM-PB is actually an abbreviation of Contemporary Melting - Pot & Bar. Now, that's quite a mouthful. Located at Block 7 of Dempsey Road and there's a carpark nearby. How convenient is that.

menu

Beer is prominent here, so we started with that.

Corona @$8++ (HH)

After looking at the beer menu, the best value would be Corona as for the same Happy Hour price, you'll be getting 25ml more. Yeah, cheap thrill...I know. Hahaha!

loved the golden colour

For munchies, there's plenty of choice. The table near us ordered their mains and it looked quite substantial.

truffle fries with ketchup (@$15++)
fries, and more fries!

The fries tasted best when it landed on the table. Piping hot, lovely truffle-y scented and just so good with the ketchup. But after an hour or so, it became rather hard and one would be compelled not to eat it anymore.

Wagyu Cube (@$22++)
nice, juicy meaty cubes

A meatatarian must have her meats! The Wagyu Cubes here was served on a longish looking plate, with lots of greens and sauteed mushroom. Likey likey. The sauce was a tad too salty though but it's ok since we polished off the entire plate. The cubes were slightly chewy but yet tender enough to want to eat more.

Our Mojito (@13++ HH)

Happy Hour (HH) runs till 9pm, and one could save around $3++ thereabouts per drink, so do order early.
 
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