Adventurous cuisines

Upon arrival that very morning , we were brought to a restaurant owned by Hong Kong businessman, for dimsum. Cantonese cuisines were quite similar to our cooking and we should enjoyed it . However, we were served with 2 buns each onboard at 2am, and a box of ' nasi lemak ' each at 4 am , breakfast at 8am was a bit too heavy .
With the tour leader's reminder in mind , we arrived at Datong for lunch at 2pm . That was really a different stream of cooking, our first taste of northern cuisines. That night, a szechuan styled steamboat dinner was arranged .

The sesame dipping sauce is quite tasty 

The individual steamboat set

The Szechuan spicy steamboat was not really spicy , but a small teaspoon of the chillies added to the soup was enough to make your tongue numb .
Our second lunch in Datong before we return to Beijing, was at another restaurant . Even though this was outskirt, the dishes were presented nicely .

The chinese cabbage in pumpkin sauce was tasty .

This bun's hollow is for the vegetable fillings.

This papaya custard was good and almost the only dessert we had throughout the week .

It was in this restaurant that we had a surprise . A waitress served us this dish by mistake ......

Can you believe this ? It 's DOG'S MEAT !

Beautifully presented on our dining table , was this dish . It was lucky that we asked the waitress before we moved our chopsticks. She coolly answered : DOG's MEAT . None of us touch it at all . No way !
In Beijing , of course we went for the famous Beijing duck at QuanJuDe . Look at how the chef sliced the duck .

Sliced duck meat were taken back to the kitchen to be cooked in other dishes before served.

A duck's meal means we had crispy duck's skin to be eaten with dumpling skin , duck's meat stir-fry with vegetables, duck's bones soup , etc.
Another dinner , we had the so-call official's dishes which includes mutton-papaya soup . Well , I was not fancied and forgot to snap a picture of it .
This trip to Beijing, tasted mostly good restaurant food . As for road side delicacies , we only managed to try the pancake .

A savoury crispy pancake in Beijing .

This 5 RMB piece of pancake was something different . Worth trying !