Beijing Halal Diary in the Spring of 2021 (Part 2A)
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Summary: Beijing Halal Diary in the Spring of 2021 (Part 2A) is retranslated with Gemini, keeping the original paragraph order and all matching image links.
April 26, Iftar at Nandouya Mosque.
Today's Iftar was at Nandouya, with various fruits and snacks. Then we went to the nearby Xinyuezhai to eat stir-fried lamb head meat, small bowls of beef, and tofu in a clay pot. After eating, we took a stroll through the hutong to digest.
April 27, Iftar at Dongzhimenwai Mosque.
April 28, Iftar at Tongjuyuan, a stone-pot barbecue restaurant in Ciqikou.
For Iftar, we went to Tongjuyuan, a newly opened stone-pot barbecue restaurant in Ciqikou. I really enjoyed the black pepper beef stone-pot rice. Their lamb is quite tender. The owner said he has run a beef and lamb shop in Niujie for twenty years and has his own cold storage.
May 6, Ramadan set menu at the Turkish restaurant Xitingxiuse.
For Iftar, we had the Ramadan set menu at the Turkish restaurant Xitingxiuse in Xinyuanli. There are two types, chicken and lamb, and the offerings change daily. The lamb we had yesterday was Karabakh Pilaf, and the chicken was grilled chicken wings.
Karabakh is a region on the border of Azerbaijan and Armenia. The name comes from the Turkic word 'Kara' (black) and the Persian word 'Bagh' (garden). Currently, it is mostly inhabited by Azerbaijanis. The Karabakh Pilaf we ate was stewed lamb with apricots. The yellow rice was colored with saffron water. When I was traveling in Baku before, I ate this kind of apricot and saffron pilaf while listening to Azerbaijani mugham, so it felt very familiar to eat it this time.
Besides the main course, the set menu included classic red lentil soup. The side dishes were hummus, yogurt with eggplant sauce, carrot and cheese dip, and a nut and bell pepper salad. The staple food was spinach Pide; the spinach and cheese were quite delicious. The drinks were Ayran and black tea. Their Ayran is not particularly sour. Finally, there was rice pudding and semolina for dessert.
Overall, this set menu is quite good value for the embassy district!
May 9, Iftar at home.
For Iftar today, I made lamb soup and braised hairtail, and Zainab roasted sweet potatoes. The lamb front leg was brought back from Urumqi.
May 10, Ziguangyuan at the North Gate of Ritan.
Iftar at Nanxiapo; their place is truly the most abundant! Then we went to Ziguangyuan at the North Gate of Ritan to eat roast duck, ma doufu (fermented bean curd), stir-fried wild mushrooms, and mustard duck webs. Their environment is better than the Dongdaqiao branch I usually go to. I eat Ziguangyuan's roast duck about once a month. If I don't eat it for a while, I miss it. This is the first time since Ramadan started. The ma doufu is darker than usual, perhaps because they used more pickled mustard greens. The wild mushrooms were stir-fried with sauce, which is especially suitable for Beijingers to eat with rice. Zainab thought it was too sweet, so I packed it up to eat for Suhoor today.
Summary: Beijing Halal Diary in the Spring of 2021 (Part 2A) is retranslated with Gemini, keeping the original paragraph order and all matching image links.
April 26, Iftar at Nandouya Mosque.
Today's Iftar was at Nandouya, with various fruits and snacks. Then we went to the nearby Xinyuezhai to eat stir-fried lamb head meat, small bowls of beef, and tofu in a clay pot. After eating, we took a stroll through the hutong to digest.
April 27, Iftar at Dongzhimenwai Mosque.
April 28, Iftar at Tongjuyuan, a stone-pot barbecue restaurant in Ciqikou.
For Iftar, we went to Tongjuyuan, a newly opened stone-pot barbecue restaurant in Ciqikou. I really enjoyed the black pepper beef stone-pot rice. Their lamb is quite tender. The owner said he has run a beef and lamb shop in Niujie for twenty years and has his own cold storage.
May 6, Ramadan set menu at the Turkish restaurant Xitingxiuse.
For Iftar, we had the Ramadan set menu at the Turkish restaurant Xitingxiuse in Xinyuanli. There are two types, chicken and lamb, and the offerings change daily. The lamb we had yesterday was Karabakh Pilaf, and the chicken was grilled chicken wings.
Karabakh is a region on the border of Azerbaijan and Armenia. The name comes from the Turkic word 'Kara' (black) and the Persian word 'Bagh' (garden). Currently, it is mostly inhabited by Azerbaijanis. The Karabakh Pilaf we ate was stewed lamb with apricots. The yellow rice was colored with saffron water. When I was traveling in Baku before, I ate this kind of apricot and saffron pilaf while listening to Azerbaijani mugham, so it felt very familiar to eat it this time.
Besides the main course, the set menu included classic red lentil soup. The side dishes were hummus, yogurt with eggplant sauce, carrot and cheese dip, and a nut and bell pepper salad. The staple food was spinach Pide; the spinach and cheese were quite delicious. The drinks were Ayran and black tea. Their Ayran is not particularly sour. Finally, there was rice pudding and semolina for dessert.
Overall, this set menu is quite good value for the embassy district!
May 9, Iftar at home.
For Iftar today, I made lamb soup and braised hairtail, and Zainab roasted sweet potatoes. The lamb front leg was brought back from Urumqi.
May 10, Ziguangyuan at the North Gate of Ritan.
Iftar at Nanxiapo; their place is truly the most abundant! Then we went to Ziguangyuan at the North Gate of Ritan to eat roast duck, ma doufu (fermented bean curd), stir-fried wild mushrooms, and mustard duck webs. Their environment is better than the Dongdaqiao branch I usually go to. I eat Ziguangyuan's roast duck about once a month. If I don't eat it for a while, I miss it. This is the first time since Ramadan started. The ma doufu is darker than usual, perhaps because they used more pickled mustard greens. The wild mushrooms were stir-fried with sauce, which is especially suitable for Beijingers to eat with rice. Zainab thought it was too sweet, so I packed it up to eat for Suhoor today.
