The best of Beijing

Recipes

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  Pan-Fried Shrimp and Green Onion Cakes

  For the sweetest flavour, use fresh water chestnuts available at Asian markets. Peel them, paring off any yellowish bits,...

• Beijing Wings

  These wings are prepared in the traditional Beijing manner of cooking young chicken. Marinating and steaming, then...

• Chinese Sesame Noodles with Chicken

  Everybody loves cold noodles with sesame sauce. Although they are a specialty of northern and central China, they are served...

• Vegetarian Cold Noodles with Sesame Sauce

  This vegetarian salad calls for seasoned firm tofu. You can buy it already made and packaged at Chinese grocery stores or...

• Chinese Cucumber Salad

  There are scores of cucumber salads served throughout the north of China; here is one that is lightly flavoured with the...

• Kohlrabi Slaw

  Kohlrabi is a northern Chinese vegetable in salads and stir-fries, as well as for salting and pickling. This is a typical...

• Sweet-and-Sour Broken Radishes

  Radishes – daikon, black and occasionally red – are another northern-Chinese salad favourite.

• Beijing Hamburger Dumplings

  In northern China, where wheat is the staple grain, myriad filled dumplings have been developed over the centuries. These...