Best Halal Food Beijing: Lamb Offal Flatbread, Fresh Fish Hot Pot, Xinjiang Grill and Lahore Restaurant
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Summary: This Beijing halal food map issue 47 covers ten newer or distinctive restaurants, including lamb offal flatbread, fresh fish hot pot, shisha bar food, Xinjiang milk egg laozao, whole lamb buffet, Xinjiang grill, barbecue, Lahore Restaurant, and dry-pot beef.
Eight of the 10 restaurants featured in this issue opened recently. It has been a tough year for the restaurant industry, yet Beijing has still seen many new, unique halal restaurants. I feel nervous for the owners, so I suggest you visit these spots while they are still open, or you might miss your chance.
1. Upper Water Flatbread with Lamb Offal (Shangshui Dabing Yangza)
2. Guan Fish House Fresh Fish Hot Pot (Guan Yuzhuang Xianyu Huoguo)
3. Adilais Shisha Bar (Aidilaisi Shuiyanba)
4. Yisiting
5. Silk Road Legend: Master Ma’s Milk, Egg, and Fermented Rice Soup (Silu Chuanqi Maye Jia Niunai Jidan Laozao)
6. Afanti Town Whole Lamb Buffet (Afanti Xiaozhen Quanyang Zizhu)
7. Mayila Xinjiang Grill House (Mayila Xinjiang Kaofang)
8. Era Hot Pot and Barbecue (Niandai Dabinglu Shaokao)
9. Lahore Restaurant
10. Xuan Niu Dry Pot Beef and Pickled Cabbage Beef Hot Pot (Xuan Niu Ganguo Niurou Suancai Niurou Huoguo)
1. Upper Water Flatbread Wrapped with Lamb Offal (Shangshui Dabing Juan Yangza)
This shop in Jiugong, Daxing, specializes in flatbread rolls with lamb offal (laobing juan yangza) and is run by the same owners as the Fat Boy Beef Noodle shop next door.
This is the first time I have seen a shop that makes flatbread rolls with meat its signature dish.
The menu is simple. Besides the flatbread rolls with lamb offal or beef, they serve spicy chicken (lazi ji). The beef is a bit salty, but the spicy chicken is good. The portion is large, it has plenty of ingredients, and it is cheap, costing about 60 yuan per person.
2. Guan Fish House Fresh Fish Hot Pot (Guan Yuzhuang Xianyu Huoguo)
This place used to be the Yi Dai Yi Lu Xinjiang Restaurant, but it has changed its style and is now a fish hot pot restaurant.
Their fish is fresh. They let you pick a live fish, clean it, and put it straight into the pot, so the ingredients are very fresh.
The price is not expensive, and you can get very full with a 138 yuan meal for two.
Since it used to be a Xinjiang restaurant, they added flatbread (nang) to the hot pot menu. The flatbread soaks up the flavor of the fish broth.
3. Adilais Shisha Bar (Aidilaisi Shuiyanba)
This is a Uyghur-themed hookah bar in Sanlitun SOHO with a really cool atmosphere.
You can smoke hookah, drink coffee, and try many Xinjiang snacks here.
There is a booth by the window, but you need to spend at least 1,500 yuan to sit there.
There is no minimum spend for other seating areas.
Their tea and desserts are quite good, and you can try the Yili ice cream and milk tea.
4. Yisiting
This Turkish and Xinjiang-themed halal restaurant in Wangjing opened recently and focuses on business dining.
This restaurant and Xiu'er are owned by the same people, but Xiu'er is not halal.
There are song and dance performances in the main hall in the evening.
Private dining rooms.
The bread served with the meal is in the Turkish style, and we ordered Turkish specialties this time.
The food here is average, but the atmosphere is nice, and the average cost per person is over 150 yuan.
5. Silk Road Legend: Master Ma’s Milk, Egg, and Fermented Rice Soup (Silu Chuanqi Maye Jia Niunai Jidan Laozao)
This massive noodle shop is truly legendary. The owner is from Zhangjiachuan, the shop is huge, and it is open 24 hours a day.
The highlight is the milk and egg fermented rice (laozao) sold at the entrance. It is made by 80-year-old Mr. Ma from Lanzhou, who sits there every day to oversee it.
This shop is incredibly popular. Even at 8 p.m., every seat was taken. The decor is beautiful and breaks away from the usual style.
I had a bowl of thin noodles (erxi) and some barbecue. The noodles had the traditional Lanzhou beef noodle taste.
6. Afanti Town Whole Lamb Buffet (Afanti Xiaozhen Quanyang Zizhu)
There is a new all-lamb themed buffet restaurant at Liuliqiao. The dinner buffet costs 158 yuan per person.
They offer both barbecue and hot pot. If you want barbecue, you can scan a code to order. You can order as much as you want, and it is grilled fresh without any extra charge.
The whole roasted lamb is also available by request. The servers will let customers know when it is ready so everyone can help themselves.
The quality here is quite high. This ice cream tastes like pure milk. I tried everything, and it was all delicious.
The hand-cut lamb is good quality, which is a real treat for meat lovers.
The store manager gave me a Uyghur floral cap (doppa). The service is very thoughtful, and this shop is worth a visit.
7. Mayila Xinjiang Grill House (Mayila Xinjiang Kaofang)
Mayila used to be the manager at Rumi's Secret. She is the young woman on the wall to the right in the picture below.
I was surprised to find hand-shredded beef jerky (niuganba) at this shop.
The clear-stewed lamb chops (qingdun yangpai) use ingredients sourced from Xinjiang, and the quality of the lamb is excellent.
The liver wrapped in fat (youbao gan) is their signature dish, and their homemade yogurt is just like the one at Ziguangyuan, with a dense and creamy texture.
8. Era Hot Pot and Barbecue (Niandai Dabinglu Shaokao)
From the outside, this place looks like a copper-pot hot pot restaurant, but it is actually a halal Hong Kong-style hot pot (dabanlu) spot.
The hot pot uses a clay pot over charcoal, and they mainly serve seafood. You need to call ahead to book if you want a wider variety of fresh seafood. I arrived without notice, so there was no other seafood available, and I only had arctic shrimp.
I chose the pickled radish soup base, and it tasted great.
You are supposed to use seafood sauce for hot pot, but their hand-rolled noodles with sesame paste are quite delicious.
9. Lahore Restaurant
A new Lahore Pakistani restaurant has opened in Lanman Hutong, and this is their third branch.
The decor is very refined and colorful, adding a touch of exotic flair to the already romantic Lanman Hutong.
Pakistani food is slightly different from Indian food. Pakistani cuisine incorporates some characteristics of Arab cooking, and the flavors are generally heavier than Indian food.
The menu here is not very large, and there are few curry options, perhaps because they just opened and are still preparing.
10. Xuan Niu Dry Pot Beef and Pickled Cabbage Beef Hot Pot (Xuan Niu Ganguo Niurou Suancai Niurou Huoguo)
Hui Muslims from Qujing, Yunnan, opened this Yunnan-style pickled vegetable hot pot (suancai huoguo) in Wudaoying Hutong, and the taste is very authentic to Yunnan.
You can eat Shiping tofu (shiping doufu) at this hot pot place, and I really like the texture of this tofu.
This is ginger-handle squash (jiangbinggua), which tastes like pumpkin and is also a specialty dish from Yunnan.
This is mango served with spicy dipping powder (danshan zhanshui), which every Yunnan local knows.
They also have the Yunnan specialty flower cake (xianhuabing).
Put the Honghe rice noodles (honghe mixian) into the pickled vegetable pot, and you get a bowl of authentic pickled vegetable beef rice noodles.
The second floor of the shop is a cafe where you can go up to rest. It is decorated in an artistic style, and the books on the shelves are quite interesting.
I ordered a cup of Lijiang roasted milk tea (lijiang kaonai) on the second floor, which had rose petals sprinkled on top. I highly recommend this shop. The taste is authentic, and the average cost per person is around 100 yuan.
Summary: This Beijing halal food map issue 47 covers ten newer or distinctive restaurants, including lamb offal flatbread, fresh fish hot pot, shisha bar food, Xinjiang milk egg laozao, whole lamb buffet, Xinjiang grill, barbecue, Lahore Restaurant, and dry-pot beef.
Eight of the 10 restaurants featured in this issue opened recently. It has been a tough year for the restaurant industry, yet Beijing has still seen many new, unique halal restaurants. I feel nervous for the owners, so I suggest you visit these spots while they are still open, or you might miss your chance.
1. Upper Water Flatbread with Lamb Offal (Shangshui Dabing Yangza)
2. Guan Fish House Fresh Fish Hot Pot (Guan Yuzhuang Xianyu Huoguo)
3. Adilais Shisha Bar (Aidilaisi Shuiyanba)
4. Yisiting
5. Silk Road Legend: Master Ma’s Milk, Egg, and Fermented Rice Soup (Silu Chuanqi Maye Jia Niunai Jidan Laozao)
6. Afanti Town Whole Lamb Buffet (Afanti Xiaozhen Quanyang Zizhu)
7. Mayila Xinjiang Grill House (Mayila Xinjiang Kaofang)
8. Era Hot Pot and Barbecue (Niandai Dabinglu Shaokao)
9. Lahore Restaurant
10. Xuan Niu Dry Pot Beef and Pickled Cabbage Beef Hot Pot (Xuan Niu Ganguo Niurou Suancai Niurou Huoguo)
1. Upper Water Flatbread Wrapped with Lamb Offal (Shangshui Dabing Juan Yangza)
This shop in Jiugong, Daxing, specializes in flatbread rolls with lamb offal (laobing juan yangza) and is run by the same owners as the Fat Boy Beef Noodle shop next door.
This is the first time I have seen a shop that makes flatbread rolls with meat its signature dish.
The menu is simple. Besides the flatbread rolls with lamb offal or beef, they serve spicy chicken (lazi ji). The beef is a bit salty, but the spicy chicken is good. The portion is large, it has plenty of ingredients, and it is cheap, costing about 60 yuan per person.
2. Guan Fish House Fresh Fish Hot Pot (Guan Yuzhuang Xianyu Huoguo)
This place used to be the Yi Dai Yi Lu Xinjiang Restaurant, but it has changed its style and is now a fish hot pot restaurant.
Their fish is fresh. They let you pick a live fish, clean it, and put it straight into the pot, so the ingredients are very fresh.
The price is not expensive, and you can get very full with a 138 yuan meal for two.
Since it used to be a Xinjiang restaurant, they added flatbread (nang) to the hot pot menu. The flatbread soaks up the flavor of the fish broth.
3. Adilais Shisha Bar (Aidilaisi Shuiyanba)
This is a Uyghur-themed hookah bar in Sanlitun SOHO with a really cool atmosphere.
You can smoke hookah, drink coffee, and try many Xinjiang snacks here.
There is a booth by the window, but you need to spend at least 1,500 yuan to sit there.
There is no minimum spend for other seating areas.
Their tea and desserts are quite good, and you can try the Yili ice cream and milk tea.
4. Yisiting
This Turkish and Xinjiang-themed halal restaurant in Wangjing opened recently and focuses on business dining.
This restaurant and Xiu'er are owned by the same people, but Xiu'er is not halal.
There are song and dance performances in the main hall in the evening.
Private dining rooms.
The bread served with the meal is in the Turkish style, and we ordered Turkish specialties this time.
The food here is average, but the atmosphere is nice, and the average cost per person is over 150 yuan.
5. Silk Road Legend: Master Ma’s Milk, Egg, and Fermented Rice Soup (Silu Chuanqi Maye Jia Niunai Jidan Laozao)
This massive noodle shop is truly legendary. The owner is from Zhangjiachuan, the shop is huge, and it is open 24 hours a day.
The highlight is the milk and egg fermented rice (laozao) sold at the entrance. It is made by 80-year-old Mr. Ma from Lanzhou, who sits there every day to oversee it.
This shop is incredibly popular. Even at 8 p.m., every seat was taken. The decor is beautiful and breaks away from the usual style.
I had a bowl of thin noodles (erxi) and some barbecue. The noodles had the traditional Lanzhou beef noodle taste.
6. Afanti Town Whole Lamb Buffet (Afanti Xiaozhen Quanyang Zizhu)
There is a new all-lamb themed buffet restaurant at Liuliqiao. The dinner buffet costs 158 yuan per person.
They offer both barbecue and hot pot. If you want barbecue, you can scan a code to order. You can order as much as you want, and it is grilled fresh without any extra charge.
The whole roasted lamb is also available by request. The servers will let customers know when it is ready so everyone can help themselves.
The quality here is quite high. This ice cream tastes like pure milk. I tried everything, and it was all delicious.
The hand-cut lamb is good quality, which is a real treat for meat lovers.
The store manager gave me a Uyghur floral cap (doppa). The service is very thoughtful, and this shop is worth a visit.
7. Mayila Xinjiang Grill House (Mayila Xinjiang Kaofang)
Mayila used to be the manager at Rumi's Secret. She is the young woman on the wall to the right in the picture below.
I was surprised to find hand-shredded beef jerky (niuganba) at this shop.
The clear-stewed lamb chops (qingdun yangpai) use ingredients sourced from Xinjiang, and the quality of the lamb is excellent.
The liver wrapped in fat (youbao gan) is their signature dish, and their homemade yogurt is just like the one at Ziguangyuan, with a dense and creamy texture.
8. Era Hot Pot and Barbecue (Niandai Dabinglu Shaokao)
From the outside, this place looks like a copper-pot hot pot restaurant, but it is actually a halal Hong Kong-style hot pot (dabanlu) spot.
The hot pot uses a clay pot over charcoal, and they mainly serve seafood. You need to call ahead to book if you want a wider variety of fresh seafood. I arrived without notice, so there was no other seafood available, and I only had arctic shrimp.
I chose the pickled radish soup base, and it tasted great.
You are supposed to use seafood sauce for hot pot, but their hand-rolled noodles with sesame paste are quite delicious.
9. Lahore Restaurant
A new Lahore Pakistani restaurant has opened in Lanman Hutong, and this is their third branch.
The decor is very refined and colorful, adding a touch of exotic flair to the already romantic Lanman Hutong.
Pakistani food is slightly different from Indian food. Pakistani cuisine incorporates some characteristics of Arab cooking, and the flavors are generally heavier than Indian food.
The menu here is not very large, and there are few curry options, perhaps because they just opened and are still preparing.
10. Xuan Niu Dry Pot Beef and Pickled Cabbage Beef Hot Pot (Xuan Niu Ganguo Niurou Suancai Niurou Huoguo)
Hui Muslims from Qujing, Yunnan, opened this Yunnan-style pickled vegetable hot pot (suancai huoguo) in Wudaoying Hutong, and the taste is very authentic to Yunnan.
You can eat Shiping tofu (shiping doufu) at this hot pot place, and I really like the texture of this tofu.
This is ginger-handle squash (jiangbinggua), which tastes like pumpkin and is also a specialty dish from Yunnan.
This is mango served with spicy dipping powder (danshan zhanshui), which every Yunnan local knows.
They also have the Yunnan specialty flower cake (xianhuabing).
Put the Honghe rice noodles (honghe mixian) into the pickled vegetable pot, and you get a bowl of authentic pickled vegetable beef rice noodles.
The second floor of the shop is a cafe where you can go up to rest. It is decorated in an artistic style, and the books on the shelves are quite interesting.
I ordered a cup of Lijiang roasted milk tea (lijiang kaonai) on the second floor, which had rose petals sprinkled on top. I highly recommend this shop. The taste is authentic, and the average cost per person is around 100 yuan.
