Best Halal Restaurants in Beijing: 10 Local Muslim Food Spots Worth Trying (Segment 2 of 3)
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Summary: This guide to the best halal restaurants in Beijing keeps the original list of local Muslim food spots, Hui Muslim food, and practical halal dining details.
In the past, spring and summer were the growing seasons for sheep, so they were usually only slaughtered after autumn. Because of this, some mutton shops would switch to selling cold food during the summer. In the 1940s, Man Leting bought Japanese refrigeration equipment to sell homemade popsicles, soda, and other cold drinks, and business was booming. In 1949, mutton shipments from Inner Mongolia to Beijing were blocked, and the sheep trade hit rock bottom. Just then, Man Leiting's fellow townsman Man Kaiqi came to join him. Man Kaiqi had a background in a pastry shop, so Man Liu stopped selling lamb and switched to snacks and cold dishes, making Rongxiangcheng a famous Hui Muslim snack shop outside Chongwenmen. After the public-private partnership in 1956, Man Leiting's son Man Kaitong became the manager, and in 1958, they stopped making popsicles to focus on snacks like almond tofu (xingren doufu) and sweet rice balls (yuanxiao). In 1966, Rongxiangcheng was officially renamed Jinfang Hui Muslim Snack Shop, and in 1971, it began to focus on sweet rice balls (yuanxiao), which have drawn long lines every year around the Lantern Festival since the 1990s.
A new shawarma rotisserie shop just opened at the north entrance of Sanlitun SOHO. We went there for dinner; one of the guys working there is from Turkmenistan and the other is from Russia, and almost all the customers were foreigners. The wraps and burgers tasted okay, though the garlic sauce was quite strong. But when we went, they were just starting to roast a new batch of beef, so the pre-sliced beef wasn't very hot. Also, the flatbread wraps they used weren't warm. Still, the vibe is just like a rotisserie shop on a Middle Eastern street; there are no seats, so you grab one to eat on the go and pretend you are in Damascus.
Summary: This guide to the best halal restaurants in Beijing keeps the original list of local Muslim food spots, Hui Muslim food, and practical halal dining details.
In the past, spring and summer were the growing seasons for sheep, so they were usually only slaughtered after autumn. Because of this, some mutton shops would switch to selling cold food during the summer. In the 1940s, Man Leting bought Japanese refrigeration equipment to sell homemade popsicles, soda, and other cold drinks, and business was booming. In 1949, mutton shipments from Inner Mongolia to Beijing were blocked, and the sheep trade hit rock bottom. Just then, Man Leiting's fellow townsman Man Kaiqi came to join him. Man Kaiqi had a background in a pastry shop, so Man Liu stopped selling lamb and switched to snacks and cold dishes, making Rongxiangcheng a famous Hui Muslim snack shop outside Chongwenmen. After the public-private partnership in 1956, Man Leiting's son Man Kaitong became the manager, and in 1958, they stopped making popsicles to focus on snacks like almond tofu (xingren doufu) and sweet rice balls (yuanxiao). In 1966, Rongxiangcheng was officially renamed Jinfang Hui Muslim Snack Shop, and in 1971, it began to focus on sweet rice balls (yuanxiao), which have drawn long lines every year around the Lantern Festival since the 1990s.
A new shawarma rotisserie shop just opened at the north entrance of Sanlitun SOHO. We went there for dinner; one of the guys working there is from Turkmenistan and the other is from Russia, and almost all the customers were foreigners. The wraps and burgers tasted okay, though the garlic sauce was quite strong. But when we went, they were just starting to roast a new batch of beef, so the pre-sliced beef wasn't very hot. Also, the flatbread wraps they used weren't warm. Still, the vibe is just like a rotisserie shop on a Middle Eastern street; there are no seats, so you grab one to eat on the go and pretend you are in Damascus.
