Halal Street Food China: Beijing Qingcheng, Xinjiang Rice Noodles and Zam Zam
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Summary: This Beijing halal street food guide keeps the original part-fifteen map, including Qingcheng Hotel, Xinjiang rice noodles, Zam Zam, addresses, dishes, and photos. It helps readers find real halal food in China while preserving the original details.
1. Qingcheng Restaurant
I found a long-running Inner Mongolian restaurant in Changping. The owner is from Hohhot, which means 'blue city' in the Mongolian language.
The patterns on the restaurant's ceiling are beautiful.
Since eastern Inner Mongolia is part of Manchuria, the food styles are similar, so you can eat sweet and sour stir-fried meat (guobaorou) here.
Halal stir-fried meat (guobaorou) is not easy to find in Beijing anymore. The few Northeast-style restaurants I recommended before have all closed.
They also have potstickers (guotie) and steamed dumplings (shaomai), which are both traditional Inner Mongolian snacks.
This is called oat noodle nests (youmian wowo), a type of pasta that you dip into the lamb bone broth (yangtang) served on the side.
Address:
No. 14 Donghuan Road, Changping District
2. Crescent Moon (Wanwan Yueliang)
This is a Xinjiang restaurant with a strong Uyghur style. It has been open for many years and was recommended by my Uyghur friends.
All the staff are Uyghur.
The food is quite traditional and the prices are not expensive.
Address: No. 16, Liutiao Hutong, Dongsi North Street, Dongcheng District.
3. Lafengqin Xinjiang Rice Noodles.
It opened recently and serves stir-fried rice cakes and stir-fried fish fillets. There are more and more halal Xinjiang rice noodle shops in Beijing.
Stir-fried rice cakes with chicken.
Address:
First floor of Kaishi Building, Wudaokou.
4. ZAM ZAM Indo-Pak Cuisine.
This is a newly opened Pakistani restaurant in Wudaokou. The owner is a Hui Muslim from Beijing, while the kitchen staff and servers are from Pakistan and India. They do not sell alcohol and offer a 58 yuan buffet all day.
I only found this restaurant because I was making a phone call outside and saw women wearing headscarves going in and out.
The food is delicious. It is excellent for a buffet and offers great value.
You can choose the buffet or order a la carte. They have pizza and various Indo-Pak desserts.
Address:
Located on the first floor of Kaishi Building in Wudaokou, right next to La Feng Qin.
5. BRBR Arabic Restaurant
This shop used to be near the University of International Business and Economics. It just moved here recently, but it is already busy and the food tastes great.
Roasted lamb
Shawarma sandwich
Black tea
Address:
No. 3 East, Building 327, Zhongguancun South Second Alley, Haidian District
6. Ali Restaurant
We had our Eid al-Fitr dinner at Ali Restaurant on Jiaoda East Road. This Ningxia-style place has a great atmosphere. You can pre-order the Jingyuan steamed chicken. I ordered the spicy beef and the Yanchi salt lake hand-grabbed lamb, plus the layered steamed buns (bubu gaosheng momo). We finished every single dish.
Eight-treasure tea (babao cha)
Sour soup fish (suantang yu)
Steamed buns for success (bubugao sheng momo)
Hand-grabbed salt-lake lamb (tanyang shouzhuo)
Spicy stir-fried yellow beef
Address: Beijing
Courtyard 58, Jiaotong University East Road
6. Jinying Specialty Meatball Soup
This is a new branch of the Xinjiang-style meatball soup shop in Dongsi. It just opened, and the taste is the same as the original shop, but the twisted flower rolls (huajuan) are not as good as the ones at the old place.
Address:
Temporary No. 138, Chengfu Road, Haidian District
7. Yingfeng Yunnan Grilled Rice Cakes (shaierkuai)
Yingfeng is a chain brand from Yunnan, and this time they have opened a shop in Beijing.
The young man at the shop is a Hui Muslim from Yunnan.
Rice cake (erkua) is a Yunnan specialty, a snack made from rice.
The shop sells homemade drinks like rose sago dessert (meigui ximilu).
Address:
No. 9 Yanjingli Middle Street, Chaoyang North Road (next to Youli Youmian).
8. Maihemuti Restaurant in Kashgar, Xinjiang.
This Xinjiang restaurant has been open for many years and the staff are all Uyghurs. Restaurants run by Uyghurs like this are becoming rare in Beijing now.
The restaurant has a takeout window where you can buy lamb leg, lamb trotters, and baked flatbread (nang).
Address:
No. 5 Baiyunguan Street, Xicheng District.
9. Alijiang Xinjiang Flavors.
Alijiang is a new brand under the Western Mahua group, focusing on Xinjiang flavors.
You can watch Uyghur dancing while you eat dinner.
The food at Western Ma Hua is always good, so Alijiang is pretty decent too.
The server highly recommended the spicy peppercorn chicken (jiaomaji).
The pilaf (zhuafan) was standard and well-made.
Address:
Alijiang Spicy Peppercorn Chicken, 5th Floor, Souxiu City, 40 Chongwenmen Outer Street, Dongcheng District.
10. Hongyunlou Hong Kong-style Tea Restaurant.
Hongyunlou started as a halal Beijing-style restaurant in Tuanjiehu. Recently, they opened a new halal spot in Nanlouzizhuang that serves both Beijing dishes and Hong Kong-style tea snacks.
The environment is quite nice, and there is a private room that seats 10 people.
I looked at their menu and wanted to try many of the Cantonese-style dim sum dishes, so I invited 10 friends to come for a meal.
Fresh shrimp wonton noodles.
Steamed beef ribs with preserved mustard greens.
Stir-fried green beans with minced meat and olive vegetables (ganlan cai roumo sijidou)
Eggplant from that autumn
Curry radish with two types of meatballs (gali luobo shuangwan)
Brine-poached sea bass (yanshui gongfu luyu)
Steamed beef dumplings (ganzheng niurou shaomai)
Three-cup chicken baked with Thai basil (jinbuhuan ju sanbei ji)
Hong Kong-style shrimp dumplings (gangshi xiajiao huang)
Mango pancake (mangguo banji)
Cute bear-shaped buns (ke'ai xiaoxiong bao)
Steamed rice rolls with yellow chives and fresh shrimp (jiuhuang xianxia changfen)
Mango pomelo sago dessert (yangzhi ganlu)
We ordered almost all the signature Cantonese tea dishes on the menu. None of them were disappointing. The cooking methods were very refined, and everyone praised them highly.
Address: Take Subway Line 7 to Nanlouzizhuang Station, exit at C, walk 100 meters, and find it inside the Cool Car Town (Kuche Xiaozhen).
11. Roubing Wan
Roubing Wan first had a small shop next to the Hui Muslim Middle School. After that place closed, they moved to Majiapu, and now they are back on Niujie Street.
Niujie Street really needed a small shop like this where you can eat Beijing-style skewers.
They also serve traditional Hui Muslim Eight Great Bowls (badawan), a meal you used to have to travel all the way to Tongxian to find.
The southern-style small beef tendon (xiaoban jin) and meat pie (roubing) are their signature dishes.
Address: Next to the halal beef and mutton market on Shuru Hutong, Niujie Street.
12. Huaxi Dingxin Style Halal Hot Pot
The Yilaobaiwei dipping sauce hot pot in Changying changed its name, but the owner and staff are the same. They now serve a new style of hot pot with a slightly different menu than before.
The shop has a nice environment with two floors and private rooms. The servers are polite and greet guests when they arrive.
The dipping sauces are self-service with a wide variety to suit everyone's taste. There is also unlimited fruit and snacks available.
You can choose a small individual hot pot, which is more hygienic. I tried the mushroom hot pot and the vitamin C tomato nutrition hot pot.
You can also order beef brisket stew and some snacks.
I saw the famous Baoding beef cover pancake (niurou zhaobing) on the menu, and when I asked the owner, it turned out they are from Hebei.
Yellow peaches, watermelon, and pickled vegetables (pao cai) are all free to take, and the pickled vegetables taste great.
Address: No. 13B, Changying Minzu Jiayuan.
Previous links:
[Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Including the most complete list of foreign restaurants)] (Part 1) (Note: Baodu Wai is closed, Yang's Beef Pancake is closed, Halal Spicy Hot Pot is closed, Yuanxie Shuanrou Restaurant is closed, Dafengshou Fish Restaurant is closed, Hongliushu Roasted Lamb Scorpion is closed, Weidao Xinjiang Restaurant is closed, Shashi Castle Restaurant is closed, Badang Restaurant is closed, Barkley Caspian Western Restaurant is closed, Istanbul Restaurant is closed, Sukhothai Thai-Malaysian Restaurant is closed, and Cheese Molecule Pizza has removed its halal sign).
[Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Including the most complete list of foreign restaurants)] (Part 2) (Note: 1001 Nights Restaurant Solana branch is closed, Haitian Yise Chinese Restaurant is closed, and Changying Seafood BBQ is closed).
[Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Including the most complete list of foreign restaurants)] (Part 3) (Note: Changji Zhizi BBQ is closed and Yiding Shandouji Private Kitchen is closed).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 4) (Note: Features Ningxia cuisine, Korean BBQ, soybean paste noodles (zhajiangmian), and Yunnan cuisine; Xuezhan Dapanji is closed, Islam Lan Hot Pot is closed, and Xingyuege Muslim Restaurant is closed).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 5) (Note: Features Yunnan cuisine and Shan County lamb soup (Shanxian yangtang)).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 6) (Note: Highlights include Chongqing hot pot, Moroccan restaurants; Yijinglan Restaurant, Weidao Seafood Restaurant are closed; Laoma Lamb Spine Potstickers has been renamed Little Conch Seafood BBQ).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 7) (Note: Highlights include Turkish kebabs, Chinese tea houses; Yijinyuan, Laoduiyuan are closed).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 8) (Highlights include Korean BBQ, soup-filled dumplings (guantangbao); Fangchengshun Hot Pot, Father's New-Style Western Region Cuisine are closed).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 9) (Note: Highlights include ox head feast, Qinghai hot pot; Halimei Kitchen is closed, Meisi Coffee has removed its halal sign, Yilaobaiwei Dipping Sauce Hot Pot has been renamed Huaxiding New-Style Halal Hot Pot).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 10) (Note: Highlights include Huainan beef soup, Western fast food, pita bread in soup (paomo), octopus balls, Yunnan cuisine).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 11) (Note: Highlights include French cuisine, Sichuan-style hot pot, spicy dry pot (mala xiangguo), seafood buffet, Henan pan-fried buns (shuijianbao)).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 12) (Note: Highlights include Henan braised noodles (huimian), spicy soup (hulatang); Erjie Diguo Stew, HI HELLO Western-style grilled rice are closed).
Beijing Halal Food Map (Part 13) (Note: Highlights include beef tendon hot pot, Palestinian restaurant, Jewish restaurant, American burgers; Japanese restaurant Caicai Shidang is closed).
Summary: This Beijing halal street food guide keeps the original part-fifteen map, including Qingcheng Hotel, Xinjiang rice noodles, Zam Zam, addresses, dishes, and photos. It helps readers find real halal food in China while preserving the original details.
1. Qingcheng Restaurant
I found a long-running Inner Mongolian restaurant in Changping. The owner is from Hohhot, which means 'blue city' in the Mongolian language.
The patterns on the restaurant's ceiling are beautiful.
Since eastern Inner Mongolia is part of Manchuria, the food styles are similar, so you can eat sweet and sour stir-fried meat (guobaorou) here.
Halal stir-fried meat (guobaorou) is not easy to find in Beijing anymore. The few Northeast-style restaurants I recommended before have all closed.
They also have potstickers (guotie) and steamed dumplings (shaomai), which are both traditional Inner Mongolian snacks.
This is called oat noodle nests (youmian wowo), a type of pasta that you dip into the lamb bone broth (yangtang) served on the side.
Address:
No. 14 Donghuan Road, Changping District
2. Crescent Moon (Wanwan Yueliang)
This is a Xinjiang restaurant with a strong Uyghur style. It has been open for many years and was recommended by my Uyghur friends.
All the staff are Uyghur.
The food is quite traditional and the prices are not expensive.
Address: No. 16, Liutiao Hutong, Dongsi North Street, Dongcheng District.
3. Lafengqin Xinjiang Rice Noodles.
It opened recently and serves stir-fried rice cakes and stir-fried fish fillets. There are more and more halal Xinjiang rice noodle shops in Beijing.
Stir-fried rice cakes with chicken.
Address:
First floor of Kaishi Building, Wudaokou.
4. ZAM ZAM Indo-Pak Cuisine.
This is a newly opened Pakistani restaurant in Wudaokou. The owner is a Hui Muslim from Beijing, while the kitchen staff and servers are from Pakistan and India. They do not sell alcohol and offer a 58 yuan buffet all day.
I only found this restaurant because I was making a phone call outside and saw women wearing headscarves going in and out.
The food is delicious. It is excellent for a buffet and offers great value.
You can choose the buffet or order a la carte. They have pizza and various Indo-Pak desserts.
Address:
Located on the first floor of Kaishi Building in Wudaokou, right next to La Feng Qin.
5. BRBR Arabic Restaurant
This shop used to be near the University of International Business and Economics. It just moved here recently, but it is already busy and the food tastes great.
Roasted lamb
Shawarma sandwich
Black tea
Address:
No. 3 East, Building 327, Zhongguancun South Second Alley, Haidian District
6. Ali Restaurant
We had our Eid al-Fitr dinner at Ali Restaurant on Jiaoda East Road. This Ningxia-style place has a great atmosphere. You can pre-order the Jingyuan steamed chicken. I ordered the spicy beef and the Yanchi salt lake hand-grabbed lamb, plus the layered steamed buns (bubu gaosheng momo). We finished every single dish.
Eight-treasure tea (babao cha)
Sour soup fish (suantang yu)
Steamed buns for success (bubugao sheng momo)
Hand-grabbed salt-lake lamb (tanyang shouzhuo)
Spicy stir-fried yellow beef
Address: Beijing
Courtyard 58, Jiaotong University East Road
6. Jinying Specialty Meatball Soup
This is a new branch of the Xinjiang-style meatball soup shop in Dongsi. It just opened, and the taste is the same as the original shop, but the twisted flower rolls (huajuan) are not as good as the ones at the old place.
Address:
Temporary No. 138, Chengfu Road, Haidian District
7. Yingfeng Yunnan Grilled Rice Cakes (shaierkuai)
Yingfeng is a chain brand from Yunnan, and this time they have opened a shop in Beijing.
The young man at the shop is a Hui Muslim from Yunnan.
Rice cake (erkua) is a Yunnan specialty, a snack made from rice.
The shop sells homemade drinks like rose sago dessert (meigui ximilu).
Address:
No. 9 Yanjingli Middle Street, Chaoyang North Road (next to Youli Youmian).
8. Maihemuti Restaurant in Kashgar, Xinjiang.
This Xinjiang restaurant has been open for many years and the staff are all Uyghurs. Restaurants run by Uyghurs like this are becoming rare in Beijing now.
The restaurant has a takeout window where you can buy lamb leg, lamb trotters, and baked flatbread (nang).
Address:
No. 5 Baiyunguan Street, Xicheng District.
9. Alijiang Xinjiang Flavors.
Alijiang is a new brand under the Western Mahua group, focusing on Xinjiang flavors.
You can watch Uyghur dancing while you eat dinner.
The food at Western Ma Hua is always good, so Alijiang is pretty decent too.
The server highly recommended the spicy peppercorn chicken (jiaomaji).
The pilaf (zhuafan) was standard and well-made.
Address:
Alijiang Spicy Peppercorn Chicken, 5th Floor, Souxiu City, 40 Chongwenmen Outer Street, Dongcheng District.
10. Hongyunlou Hong Kong-style Tea Restaurant.
Hongyunlou started as a halal Beijing-style restaurant in Tuanjiehu. Recently, they opened a new halal spot in Nanlouzizhuang that serves both Beijing dishes and Hong Kong-style tea snacks.
The environment is quite nice, and there is a private room that seats 10 people.
I looked at their menu and wanted to try many of the Cantonese-style dim sum dishes, so I invited 10 friends to come for a meal.
Fresh shrimp wonton noodles.
Steamed beef ribs with preserved mustard greens.
Stir-fried green beans with minced meat and olive vegetables (ganlan cai roumo sijidou)
Eggplant from that autumn
Curry radish with two types of meatballs (gali luobo shuangwan)
Brine-poached sea bass (yanshui gongfu luyu)
Steamed beef dumplings (ganzheng niurou shaomai)
Three-cup chicken baked with Thai basil (jinbuhuan ju sanbei ji)
Hong Kong-style shrimp dumplings (gangshi xiajiao huang)
Mango pancake (mangguo banji)
Cute bear-shaped buns (ke'ai xiaoxiong bao)
Steamed rice rolls with yellow chives and fresh shrimp (jiuhuang xianxia changfen)
Mango pomelo sago dessert (yangzhi ganlu)
We ordered almost all the signature Cantonese tea dishes on the menu. None of them were disappointing. The cooking methods were very refined, and everyone praised them highly.
Address: Take Subway Line 7 to Nanlouzizhuang Station, exit at C, walk 100 meters, and find it inside the Cool Car Town (Kuche Xiaozhen).
11. Roubing Wan
Roubing Wan first had a small shop next to the Hui Muslim Middle School. After that place closed, they moved to Majiapu, and now they are back on Niujie Street.
Niujie Street really needed a small shop like this where you can eat Beijing-style skewers.
They also serve traditional Hui Muslim Eight Great Bowls (badawan), a meal you used to have to travel all the way to Tongxian to find.
The southern-style small beef tendon (xiaoban jin) and meat pie (roubing) are their signature dishes.
Address: Next to the halal beef and mutton market on Shuru Hutong, Niujie Street.
12. Huaxi Dingxin Style Halal Hot Pot
The Yilaobaiwei dipping sauce hot pot in Changying changed its name, but the owner and staff are the same. They now serve a new style of hot pot with a slightly different menu than before.
The shop has a nice environment with two floors and private rooms. The servers are polite and greet guests when they arrive.
The dipping sauces are self-service with a wide variety to suit everyone's taste. There is also unlimited fruit and snacks available.
You can choose a small individual hot pot, which is more hygienic. I tried the mushroom hot pot and the vitamin C tomato nutrition hot pot.
You can also order beef brisket stew and some snacks.
I saw the famous Baoding beef cover pancake (niurou zhaobing) on the menu, and when I asked the owner, it turned out they are from Hebei.
Yellow peaches, watermelon, and pickled vegetables (pao cai) are all free to take, and the pickled vegetables taste great.
Address: No. 13B, Changying Minzu Jiayuan.
Previous links:
[Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Including the most complete list of foreign restaurants)] (Part 1) (Note: Baodu Wai is closed, Yang's Beef Pancake is closed, Halal Spicy Hot Pot is closed, Yuanxie Shuanrou Restaurant is closed, Dafengshou Fish Restaurant is closed, Hongliushu Roasted Lamb Scorpion is closed, Weidao Xinjiang Restaurant is closed, Shashi Castle Restaurant is closed, Badang Restaurant is closed, Barkley Caspian Western Restaurant is closed, Istanbul Restaurant is closed, Sukhothai Thai-Malaysian Restaurant is closed, and Cheese Molecule Pizza has removed its halal sign).
[Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Including the most complete list of foreign restaurants)] (Part 2) (Note: 1001 Nights Restaurant Solana branch is closed, Haitian Yise Chinese Restaurant is closed, and Changying Seafood BBQ is closed).
[Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Including the most complete list of foreign restaurants)] (Part 3) (Note: Changji Zhizi BBQ is closed and Yiding Shandouji Private Kitchen is closed).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 4) (Note: Features Ningxia cuisine, Korean BBQ, soybean paste noodles (zhajiangmian), and Yunnan cuisine; Xuezhan Dapanji is closed, Islam Lan Hot Pot is closed, and Xingyuege Muslim Restaurant is closed).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 5) (Note: Features Yunnan cuisine and Shan County lamb soup (Shanxian yangtang)).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 6) (Note: Highlights include Chongqing hot pot, Moroccan restaurants; Yijinglan Restaurant, Weidao Seafood Restaurant are closed; Laoma Lamb Spine Potstickers has been renamed Little Conch Seafood BBQ).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 7) (Note: Highlights include Turkish kebabs, Chinese tea houses; Yijinyuan, Laoduiyuan are closed).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 8) (Highlights include Korean BBQ, soup-filled dumplings (guantangbao); Fangchengshun Hot Pot, Father's New-Style Western Region Cuisine are closed).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 9) (Note: Highlights include ox head feast, Qinghai hot pot; Halimei Kitchen is closed, Meisi Coffee has removed its halal sign, Yilaobaiwei Dipping Sauce Hot Pot has been renamed Huaxiding New-Style Halal Hot Pot).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 10) (Note: Highlights include Huainan beef soup, Western fast food, pita bread in soup (paomo), octopus balls, Yunnan cuisine).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 11) (Note: Highlights include French cuisine, Sichuan-style hot pot, spicy dry pot (mala xiangguo), seafood buffet, Henan pan-fried buns (shuijianbao)).
Beijing Halal Dining Guide (Part 12) (Note: Highlights include Henan braised noodles (huimian), spicy soup (hulatang); Erjie Diguo Stew, HI HELLO Western-style grilled rice are closed).
Beijing Halal Food Map (Part 13) (Note: Highlights include beef tendon hot pot, Palestinian restaurant, Jewish restaurant, American burgers; Japanese restaurant Caicai Shidang is closed).
