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

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.

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

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

CM-PB @ Dempsey Road

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.

粥面故事 @ Minzuyuan Road, Beijing

Located at No. 2 Minzuyuan Road, Chaoyang District of Beijing. This outlet was still open for snacks when we reached the hotel at about 230am in the morning. The other option would be McDonalds but we wanted to try our first local food.

order here

shop interior

waiting for food

It's like an oriental fast food joint that serves porridge, noodles, rice and side dishes. Individual order of rice or noodles costs around ¥10 - ¥20 but top it up a little more to somewhere around ¥25 to get a set that consist of either a drink or a 肉夹馍 (rou jia mo, a kind of chinese burger), and a salad.

梅菜扣肉

delivery is available

肉夹馍 (rou jia mo)

Also tried side dishes like pancakes and vegetable guo tie.

vegetable guo tie (锅贴)

白菜牛肉饼

flat piece of dough with thin spread of beef (oily)

Its rice dishes and century egg porridge with lean meat was quite nice. Average spend per pax would be around SGD5+ for a set meal.

Crystal Jade @ Causeway Point Woodlands

Everywhere seemed rather packed on this public holiday and it was difficult to find a restaurant that can accommodate 7 pax with no reservations. Was told of a 30 minutes wait for the first restaurant that we enquired. Fortunately, Crystal Jade managed to get us seated within 2 minutes.

Ordered a pot of pu-er tea while we contemplated on the dishes.

pu-er tea

table for bigger groups

wet towel

Dad wanted to try fried rice, so we got a medium plate to share on top of dishes like tofu, vegetable, pork, chicken and steam rice.

braised pork with preserved vege (梅菜扣肉)

The steel burner not only gleames and shines but it did a great job in heating up the food. So much so that the waitress had to turn off the fire after less than a minute.

don't underestimate the fire

fatty portion was nice

The 梅菜扣肉 dish was not too salty and the ratio of fat to meat was just 1:4. Surprisingly, there wasn't alot of preserved vege in this dish.

Vegetables is a must, so we had spinach stir fried with garlic.

spinach (菠菜)

Loved the greens. Nicely tender and none of that 'old' fibrious texture.

spicy chilies

beancurd dish

chicken with black snow fungus

The fried rice was a tad dry, so the bubbling sauce from the chicken dish made a good companion. The chicken dish tasted quite homely.

Service in general was good. The staff who took our orders would come by repeatedly and ask if we needed to add anymore dishes as she strongly feels that our order was insufficient.