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10 September 2008By Zhu 24 Comments

Eating 包子 (Baozi)

Oh, Chinese food!

These are my personal favorite: Bāozi (包子） and Beijing Duck (北京烤鸭). These two dishes are relatively unknown overseas, where “Chinese food” is often a synomym of “Fried Rice”, “Chow Mien” and “Egg Foo Yung”… and other dishes that cater to Western taste and are everything but Chinese!

Bāozi (steamed filled buns) can be found in pretty much any restaurant or food stall. It can be filled with vegetable, meat, broth etc. We ate the best bāozi at a restaurant called Goubuli (狗不理包子): the name literally means, “Baozi that dogs ignore“! This is where I took the pictures.

The Baozi Kitchen

Making Baozi

Eating Out At Goubuli

Two Baskets of Baozi, the Sauce and An Egg Soup

Duck Kitchen

This is of course Beijing’s most famous dish: Beijing Duck （北京烤鸭）. We ate ours at Quanjude (全聚德）, a famous local restaurant.

The duck was sliced in front of us. We ate the meat with steamed pancakes, onions and plum sauce.

Tea, Plum Sauce, Ginger and Onion

Cutting The Duck

Duck Skin and Sugar

Some Duck, Sauce, Onion on a Pancake

24 Comments »

Zhu (author) said:

@Khengsiong – Chinese has a Muslim minority too (the Hui) and I believe it’s quite easy to find ‘halal’ baozi. I really have to taste Malaysian food!

@Bluefish – Lucky you! I can’t find a proper Beijing Duck restaurant in Ottawa…

@Seraphine – To be fair, not all kitchens are that clean. In big and famous places yes, anywhere else… you just eat on the street, and they cook on the street too! Thanks for the photo praise I sure hope the ducks don’t come alive though.

@durano lawayan – Thank you so much for the award! I’m going to check this out right now.

@beaverboosh – I believe it’s the same thing… just a different name.

@RennyBA – I found some great Chinese food around the world but I must say that Beijing duck always tastes better in Beijing for me!

@Linguist-in-Waiting – It’s really really hard to find some “real” Chinese food. Even in Chinatown…

@Celine – From the comments, I gather every culture seems to have an equivalent to baozi. Funny! Now I wanna taste them all of course

# 14 September 2008 at 10:53 pm

Celine said:

Pancakes, duck meat, onions, plum sauce..interesting!

Baozi so fit the description of momos. Momos are like steamed dumplings with different kinds of fillings in them and I had eaten it first in the State of Sikkim. Loved it.

Celines last great read…Monsoon Magic

# 13 September 2008 at 4:15 am