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Best Halal Food Tianjin: Pizza, Charcoal BBQ, Western Dining, Haishiwan Seafood and Muslim Snacks
Articles • yusuf908 posted the article • 0 comments • 94 views • 2026-05-23 07:26
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Summary: This Tianjin halal food map part 5 covers Alishu Pizza and Pasta, Yanchunlou Restaurant, Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ, AINY Western Casual Dining, Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant, Haishiwan Restaurant, desserts, seafood, and family-style Western halal dining.
This is the fifth installment of my Tianjin halal food map. It covers six restaurants I visited while traveling back and forth to Tianjin five times recently.
The halal restaurants in Tianjin I visited this time are:
1. Alishu Pizza and Pasta
2. Yanchunlou Restaurant
3. Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ
4. AINY Western Casual Dining
5. Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant
6. Haishiwan Restaurant
1. Alishu Pizza and Pasta
Tianjin has many small, family-run Western restaurants like this. They are usually located near residential neighborhoods and offer great value. None of the small Western restaurants I visited sell alcohol. The owners are all locals from Tianjin. It is strange that Beijing does not have any similar restaurants.
When I am in Malaysia, I often take my children to Western restaurants for pasta. Kids seem to love pasta and french fries.
This shop serves baked beef rice with cheese and pizza, costing about 30 yuan per serving.
Two people can eat until they are full for about 100 yuan. People say this shop used to have several branches, but this is the only one left.
2. Yanchunlou Restaurant
Some internet users called this the best halal restaurant in Tianjin, so we made a special trip to try it while passing through the city.
The restaurant has a fancy atmosphere and displays many collectibles inside.
Many people come here because of its reputation, so you have to wait in line for a table.
We tried the traditional stir-stir-fried meat liver and kidney (bao liang yang), braised oxtail, and shrimp with gluten. The taste was just okay and quite ordinary. It was not as amazing as people said online and fell short compared to Hongbinlou. However, the price is reasonable at about 150 yuan per person.
3. Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ
This shop was a surprise. I came here because my classmate was having a baby at a nearby maternity center, and we just picked the closest place. I did not expect it to be so good.
This place is a great value. Two people can eat plenty of meat for less than 200 yuan.
I highly recommend the rice mixed in a basin. It costs just over ten yuan, and the rice grains are distinct, which is the texture I like.
4. AINY Western Casual Dining
This small shop is a lot like the first one. It is even smaller, but it has been open for nearly 10 years.
They even write their menu by hand.
Two people can share a seafood pizza, a black pepper pasta, and a large order of fries for about 100 yuan. It tastes pretty good.
5. Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant
Muyi and Nuobona Western Restaurant are two restaurants with different styles run by the same owner. They are both in the same building. Muyi is a Chinese restaurant, and Nuobona is a Western restaurant.
We tried the Nuobona Western Restaurant this time. The food and the atmosphere were great. People say their Chinese food is also very delicious.
The best thing about Nuobona is the fireplace they use to bake pizzas. The pizza that comes out of it smells amazing.
I tried the famous French dish of baked snails (escargot) for the first time. It tasted quite good, just like eating sea snails.
Even though the food and the environment are quite fancy, the prices are not high. You can eat for about 100 yuan per person. Prices in Tianjin are generally lower than in Beijing.
6. Haishiwan Restaurant
We found this Western restaurant based on online reviews.
We ordered a wide variety of dishes here and tried almost all their signature items. However, the taste does not compare to Nuobona. This is a budget-friendly Western restaurant. It is definitely much cheaper than other places, costing only about 50 yuan per person, so you cannot expect too much from the flavor.
Still, their dishes look great in photos.
This huge cup of dessert was so sugary and rich that everyone could only manage one small bite before they were full. view all
Summary: This Tianjin halal food map part 5 covers Alishu Pizza and Pasta, Yanchunlou Restaurant, Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ, AINY Western Casual Dining, Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant, Haishiwan Restaurant, desserts, seafood, and family-style Western halal dining.
This is the fifth installment of my Tianjin halal food map. It covers six restaurants I visited while traveling back and forth to Tianjin five times recently.
The halal restaurants in Tianjin I visited this time are:
1. Alishu Pizza and Pasta
2. Yanchunlou Restaurant
3. Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ
4. AINY Western Casual Dining
5. Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant
6. Haishiwan Restaurant
1. Alishu Pizza and Pasta
Tianjin has many small, family-run Western restaurants like this. They are usually located near residential neighborhoods and offer great value. None of the small Western restaurants I visited sell alcohol. The owners are all locals from Tianjin. It is strange that Beijing does not have any similar restaurants.
When I am in Malaysia, I often take my children to Western restaurants for pasta. Kids seem to love pasta and french fries.
This shop serves baked beef rice with cheese and pizza, costing about 30 yuan per serving.
Two people can eat until they are full for about 100 yuan. People say this shop used to have several branches, but this is the only one left.
2. Yanchunlou Restaurant
Some internet users called this the best halal restaurant in Tianjin, so we made a special trip to try it while passing through the city.
The restaurant has a fancy atmosphere and displays many collectibles inside.
Many people come here because of its reputation, so you have to wait in line for a table.
We tried the traditional stir-stir-fried meat liver and kidney (bao liang yang), braised oxtail, and shrimp with gluten. The taste was just okay and quite ordinary. It was not as amazing as people said online and fell short compared to Hongbinlou. However, the price is reasonable at about 150 yuan per person.
3. Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ
This shop was a surprise. I came here because my classmate was having a baby at a nearby maternity center, and we just picked the closest place. I did not expect it to be so good.
This place is a great value. Two people can eat plenty of meat for less than 200 yuan.
I highly recommend the rice mixed in a basin. It costs just over ten yuan, and the rice grains are distinct, which is the texture I like.
4. AINY Western Casual Dining
This small shop is a lot like the first one. It is even smaller, but it has been open for nearly 10 years.
They even write their menu by hand.
Two people can share a seafood pizza, a black pepper pasta, and a large order of fries for about 100 yuan. It tastes pretty good.
5. Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant
Muyi and Nuobona Western Restaurant are two restaurants with different styles run by the same owner. They are both in the same building. Muyi is a Chinese restaurant, and Nuobona is a Western restaurant.
We tried the Nuobona Western Restaurant this time. The food and the atmosphere were great. People say their Chinese food is also very delicious.
The best thing about Nuobona is the fireplace they use to bake pizzas. The pizza that comes out of it smells amazing.
I tried the famous French dish of baked snails (escargot) for the first time. It tasted quite good, just like eating sea snails.
Even though the food and the environment are quite fancy, the prices are not high. You can eat for about 100 yuan per person. Prices in Tianjin are generally lower than in Beijing.
6. Haishiwan Restaurant
We found this Western restaurant based on online reviews.
We ordered a wide variety of dishes here and tried almost all their signature items. However, the taste does not compare to Nuobona. This is a budget-friendly Western restaurant. It is definitely much cheaper than other places, costing only about 50 yuan per person, so you cannot expect too much from the flavor.
Still, their dishes look great in photos.
This huge cup of dessert was so sugary and rich that everyone could only manage one small bite before they were full. view all
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Summary: This Tianjin halal food map part 5 covers Alishu Pizza and Pasta, Yanchunlou Restaurant, Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ, AINY Western Casual Dining, Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant, Haishiwan Restaurant, desserts, seafood, and family-style Western halal dining.
This is the fifth installment of my Tianjin halal food map. It covers six restaurants I visited while traveling back and forth to Tianjin five times recently.
The halal restaurants in Tianjin I visited this time are:
1. Alishu Pizza and Pasta
2. Yanchunlou Restaurant
3. Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ
4. AINY Western Casual Dining
5. Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant
6. Haishiwan Restaurant
1. Alishu Pizza and Pasta
Tianjin has many small, family-run Western restaurants like this. They are usually located near residential neighborhoods and offer great value. None of the small Western restaurants I visited sell alcohol. The owners are all locals from Tianjin. It is strange that Beijing does not have any similar restaurants.
When I am in Malaysia, I often take my children to Western restaurants for pasta. Kids seem to love pasta and french fries.
This shop serves baked beef rice with cheese and pizza, costing about 30 yuan per serving.
Two people can eat until they are full for about 100 yuan. People say this shop used to have several branches, but this is the only one left.
2. Yanchunlou Restaurant
Some internet users called this the best halal restaurant in Tianjin, so we made a special trip to try it while passing through the city.
The restaurant has a fancy atmosphere and displays many collectibles inside.
Many people come here because of its reputation, so you have to wait in line for a table.
We tried the traditional stir-stir-fried meat liver and kidney (bao liang yang), braised oxtail, and shrimp with gluten. The taste was just okay and quite ordinary. It was not as amazing as people said online and fell short compared to Hongbinlou. However, the price is reasonable at about 150 yuan per person.
3. Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ
This shop was a surprise. I came here because my classmate was having a baby at a nearby maternity center, and we just picked the closest place. I did not expect it to be so good.
This place is a great value. Two people can eat plenty of meat for less than 200 yuan.
I highly recommend the rice mixed in a basin. It costs just over ten yuan, and the rice grains are distinct, which is the texture I like.
4. AINY Western Casual Dining
This small shop is a lot like the first one. It is even smaller, but it has been open for nearly 10 years.
They even write their menu by hand.
Two people can share a seafood pizza, a black pepper pasta, and a large order of fries for about 100 yuan. It tastes pretty good.
5. Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant
Muyi and Nuobona Western Restaurant are two restaurants with different styles run by the same owner. They are both in the same building. Muyi is a Chinese restaurant, and Nuobona is a Western restaurant.
We tried the Nuobona Western Restaurant this time. The food and the atmosphere were great. People say their Chinese food is also very delicious.
The best thing about Nuobona is the fireplace they use to bake pizzas. The pizza that comes out of it smells amazing.
I tried the famous French dish of baked snails (escargot) for the first time. It tasted quite good, just like eating sea snails.
Even though the food and the environment are quite fancy, the prices are not high. You can eat for about 100 yuan per person. Prices in Tianjin are generally lower than in Beijing.
6. Haishiwan Restaurant
We found this Western restaurant based on online reviews.
We ordered a wide variety of dishes here and tried almost all their signature items. However, the taste does not compare to Nuobona. This is a budget-friendly Western restaurant. It is definitely much cheaper than other places, costing only about 50 yuan per person, so you cannot expect too much from the flavor.
Still, their dishes look great in photos.
This huge cup of dessert was so sugary and rich that everyone could only manage one small bite before they were full.
Summary: This Tianjin halal food map part 5 covers Alishu Pizza and Pasta, Yanchunlou Restaurant, Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ, AINY Western Casual Dining, Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant, Haishiwan Restaurant, desserts, seafood, and family-style Western halal dining.
This is the fifth installment of my Tianjin halal food map. It covers six restaurants I visited while traveling back and forth to Tianjin five times recently.
The halal restaurants in Tianjin I visited this time are:
1. Alishu Pizza and Pasta
2. Yanchunlou Restaurant
3. Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ
4. AINY Western Casual Dining
5. Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant
6. Haishiwan Restaurant
1. Alishu Pizza and Pasta
Tianjin has many small, family-run Western restaurants like this. They are usually located near residential neighborhoods and offer great value. None of the small Western restaurants I visited sell alcohol. The owners are all locals from Tianjin. It is strange that Beijing does not have any similar restaurants.
When I am in Malaysia, I often take my children to Western restaurants for pasta. Kids seem to love pasta and french fries.
This shop serves baked beef rice with cheese and pizza, costing about 30 yuan per serving.
Two people can eat until they are full for about 100 yuan. People say this shop used to have several branches, but this is the only one left.
2. Yanchunlou Restaurant
Some internet users called this the best halal restaurant in Tianjin, so we made a special trip to try it while passing through the city.
The restaurant has a fancy atmosphere and displays many collectibles inside.
Many people come here because of its reputation, so you have to wait in line for a table.
We tried the traditional stir-stir-fried meat liver and kidney (bao liang yang), braised oxtail, and shrimp with gluten. The taste was just okay and quite ordinary. It was not as amazing as people said online and fell short compared to Hongbinlou. However, the price is reasonable at about 150 yuan per person.
3. Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ
This shop was a surprise. I came here because my classmate was having a baby at a nearby maternity center, and we just picked the closest place. I did not expect it to be so good.
This place is a great value. Two people can eat plenty of meat for less than 200 yuan.
I highly recommend the rice mixed in a basin. It costs just over ten yuan, and the rice grains are distinct, which is the texture I like.
4. AINY Western Casual Dining
This small shop is a lot like the first one. It is even smaller, but it has been open for nearly 10 years.
They even write their menu by hand.
Two people can share a seafood pizza, a black pepper pasta, and a large order of fries for about 100 yuan. It tastes pretty good.
5. Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant
Muyi and Nuobona Western Restaurant are two restaurants with different styles run by the same owner. They are both in the same building. Muyi is a Chinese restaurant, and Nuobona is a Western restaurant.
We tried the Nuobona Western Restaurant this time. The food and the atmosphere were great. People say their Chinese food is also very delicious.
The best thing about Nuobona is the fireplace they use to bake pizzas. The pizza that comes out of it smells amazing.
I tried the famous French dish of baked snails (escargot) for the first time. It tasted quite good, just like eating sea snails.
Even though the food and the environment are quite fancy, the prices are not high. You can eat for about 100 yuan per person. Prices in Tianjin are generally lower than in Beijing.
6. Haishiwan Restaurant
We found this Western restaurant based on online reviews.
We ordered a wide variety of dishes here and tried almost all their signature items. However, the taste does not compare to Nuobona. This is a budget-friendly Western restaurant. It is definitely much cheaper than other places, costing only about 50 yuan per person, so you cannot expect too much from the flavor.
Still, their dishes look great in photos.
This huge cup of dessert was so sugary and rich that everyone could only manage one small bite before they were full.
Best Halal Food Beijing: Iranian Food, African Cuisine, Hot Pot, Peking Duck and Shabu-Shabu
Articles • yusuf908 posted the article • 0 comments • 92 views • 2026-05-23 06:09
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Summary: This Beijing halal food guide covers the middle part of the 2024 must-eat list, including Azerbaijani dumplings, Iranian food, Ghanaian and West African cuisine, halal Peking duck, shabu-shabu, Yunnan flavors, hot pot, and halal Chaoshan beef hot pot.
Caucasian soup dumplings (gaojiaosuotangbao)
These are Azerbaijani soup dumplings. The owner is from Azerbaijan, so most of the servers are too. Their Chinese isn't great, but it has improved over the last few years.
15. Iranian Cuisine
It used to be called Persepolis, but now it is named Iranian Cuisine. The cooking style hasn't changed, but I think it tastes better now than before. This is the only Iranian restaurant in Beijing, excluding the one inside the Iranian embassy.
I like this spot in their courtyard; it is a typical Iranian residential style.
Saffron pilaf (zanghonghuazhuafan)
I have been here many times. They have a buffet at lunch, and for dinner, they serve Western food like grilled meat and burgers, plus coffee and afternoon tea.
16. TRIBE GARDEN African Tribe Garden Restaurant
A new halal restaurant featuring West African specialties recently opened on the first basement level of the Sanlitun SOHO mall, focusing on Ghanaian cuisine. The staff are all Black Muslims who speak fluent Chinese, and one young lady from Kenya is especially lovely.
Ghana is a country in West Africa where about 15% of the population is Muslim, yet their national banknote features a picture of a mosque with a unique style.
Larabanga Mosque
The Larabanga Mosque (Larabanga Mosque) on the banknote was built between the 14th and 15th centuries. It is the oldest mosque in Ghana. Its architectural style is unique to West Africa, built with yellow mud and wood, making it very iconic.
The restaurant decor also has a strong African feel, including the wall hangings.
African goat meat mixed rice
African goat meat is a bit tough, but it has no gamey smell. The mixed rice tastes salty and spicy.
Non-alcoholic mojito and fruit punch
African specialty egusi (egusi)
This dish is meant to be eaten mixed with the cassava flour paste shown in the picture below. Eating the cassava flour paste is just like eating rice cake.
Fufu (fufu)
The white one is called fufu, which translates to rice flour paste in Chinese. It is the staple food for Ghanaians.
Friday special dish
They have a special dish every day. This Friday special is made with beans and rice, served with some noodles and dipping sauce. It tastes sour, salty, and spicy all at once.
Grilled tilapia
This is African-style grilled fish. It tastes great. Don't let the charred skin fool you; the meat inside is white.
A young lady from Kenya recommended this milkshake to us. It is very creamy and delicious. The total for this meal was 530 yuan for four people, which comes to 130 yuan per person.
17. Rongqing Laoman Guizhou Sour Soup Fish Hot Pot
This Guizhou sour soup hot pot restaurant changed its style and is the only halal Guizhou restaurant in Beijing. Their signature dishes are beef hot pot and fish hot pot. When we visited, the business was already starting to take off, and I hear there are long lines now, with an average wait time of over an hour.
The owner originally planned to serve Guizhou-style stir-fried dishes, but the hot pot business became so popular that they stopped making stir-fries. Now, they only serve hot pot.
We had three glasses of homemade prickly pear juice (cili zhi). It was sweet, sour, and icy cold. They only had three of these glasses, so we took them all, and other customers had to order different drinks.
The dipping sauce (zhanshui) is the soul of the meal. I suggest following the guide posted by the shop to mix your sauce. You must try the litsea cubeba oil (mujiangzi you), mint leaves, chili powder (hu lajiao mian), and fish mint (zhe'ergen).
The full beef feast set includes beef and various beef offal. The ingredients are very fresh. If you like fish, choose the river catfish (jiangtuan). One fish weighs about 1.15 kilograms, and the meat is firm with no small bones.
If you save the shop on your map and check in, you get free iced jelly (bingfen). The jelly is just okay, but the signature beef and fish hot pot are worth a try.
18. Xunji Tan Sheep Hot Pot
Xunji is a chain restaurant. There is one in Gulou and another one in Qingnian Road. The two shops have very different decor, but both are high-end and elegant. The Qingnian Road location has a particularly fresh and unique atmosphere. It is much larger than the Gulou shop and has plenty of free parking.
When you enter the courtyard, you first walk through a bamboo grove. Mist floats along both sides of the path, making it feel like a fairyland.
The courtyard is filled with flowers and green plants, including many brightly colored hydrangeas.
The courtyard has open-air seating and tented private rooms. Each tent is equipped with air conditioning, lights, and a sound system.
There is an indoor dining hall, but in the summer, everyone prefers to sit in the courtyard to enjoy the flowers and food.
The dining tables in the tented rooms have microphones. If you speak near the table, you can hear an echo, which makes chatting easier.
This restaurant is a top-tier halal establishment in Beijing. The average cost per person is between 400 and 500 yuan. The restaurant charges per head and currently only serves hot pot. They can host wedding banquets for about 150 people. Wedding banquets are also charged per head, so a wedding for 100 people costs only 50,000 to 60,000 yuan, which is very affordable for Beijing.
Xunji Gulou Courtyard has a different, classical style. You can sit on the terrace and eat hot pot with the Drum Tower behind you.
At sunset, the scene of eating hot pot with the Drum Tower in the background is stunning. Oriental Selection even came here to host a live stream.
All ingredients are fresh and high-quality. You just wait for the servers to bring the dishes in order. Each private room has a dedicated server to provide attentive service. The dishes are served in this order: drinks, cold appetizers, hot pot ingredients, staples, and dessert. You can order extra portions of anything you like without extra charges. It is like paying 300 to 500 yuan for a high-end buffet, so it is not expensive.
19. Baoding beef covered pancake (niurou zhaobing)
I once drove all the way to Miyun just to eat halal covered pancake (zhaobing). When I heard a halal zhaobing shop opened in Baiziwan, I came to try it. The taste is even better than the one in Miyun. Now, this shop has also opened a branch in Daxing.
One cover two means one liang of meat and two liang of flatbread. I chose the single set meal of one cover three, which is two liang of beef and three liang of flatbread. The shop just opened and they are still hiring staff. They only serve covered flatbread (zhaobing) and braised chicken (luzhuji), which is also a specialty of Baoding.
I have eaten covered flatbread in Baoding, and the taste is basically the same as this place.
20. Azerbaijan National Pavilion Maiden Tower Restaurant
A new restaurant opened on the third floor of the Azerbaijan National Pavilion. It is named after the Maiden Tower, which is a tourist attraction in Azerbaijan. This is the only halal Azerbaijani restaurant in Beijing, so it is worth noting.
The restaurant is inside the pavilion, so you can enjoy Azerbaijani folk handicrafts while you eat.
Many Azerbaijani chefs work abroad. Many of the Turkish restaurants we often eat at are actually run by Azerbaijanis.
The dishes here suit our tastes well, including these snacks, which are also good for babies to eat.
Creamy eggplant rolls (xiangnai qiezijuan)
Jeliteme roast chicken (jeliteme kaoji)
Beef rice with chestnut and pomegranate sauce (lizi shiliujiang niuroufan)
Nut cake
The restaurant is near Sanyuanqiao. It costs about 150 yuan per person. It is good for business dinners and dates.
21. Alkhaleej Mandi Kitchen
This is a newly opened Dubai halal restaurant in Sanlitun. The owner is an Arab from Dubai and has another shop there. The staff said the ingredients are imported from the Middle East. After eating here, I can say that is true. It reminds me of the mandi I ate in Makkah last year. It is a perfect recreation of Middle Eastern flavors.
This is a non-alcoholic restaurant. I worry about whether it can stay open for a long time because the owner is spending a lot of money, but the Beijing restaurant market is slow this year. Even in Sanlitun on the weekend, there are not many people.
You can smell the familiar scent of agarwood in the shop.
The small cup of Arabic milk tea the waiter brought tastes exactly like the one I had in Abu Dhabi.
The handmade Yemeni flatbread (khubz) comes with various dips and is delicious. The chefs are all Arabs from the Middle East.
Desert colorful chicken mandi
The special handmade Yemeni flatbread is very tasty, has a strong wheat aroma, and is very large.
Royal pastry, it has a texture like sticky rice and contains banana. This dessert is not sweet at all.
Lamb mandi
Grilled fish served with rice. The fish itself has no flavor, so you need to eat it with three different dipping sauces.
The mandi is amazing. The chicken inside is stewed until it is extremely soft and tender, and the rice gets its color from added spices.
22. Stinky Star Snail Rice Noodle (luosifen) Hot Pot
This halal snail rice noodle shop is on the ground floor of the Golden Street in the West District of Tongzhou Wanda Plaza. The owner is a Hui Muslim from Changchun who used to work at iQIYI before opening this physical shop. The small shop has two floors and mainly serves halal snail rice noodles and clam (huajia) noodle hot pots.
The snail rice noodle hot pot comes with a wide variety of ingredients that you can add to the pot to cook together.
Halal snail rice noodles are rare, but you can find them at the halal canteen of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. However, you need a student or teacher from inside to guide you in. If you don't have any connections, just come to Tongzhou Wanda.
This hot pot set for two costs 78 yuan and is enough for two or three people to eat.
The set comes with Guangxi cassava sweet soup.
Add all the side dishes to the pot and cook for 1 minute to start eating. The taste is quite authentic.
23. Fanshen Lobster Restaurant
A newly opened crayfish restaurant in Baiziwan. The owner is from Langfang, and it is currently only open for dinner until the early morning.
You can eat aquatic products like crayfish. For details, you can check my previous article, How does the Hanafi school view shrimp? They also serve local specialties from Cangzhou, Hebei, like hot pot chicken (huoguo ji) and spicy crab (xiangla xie).
The restaurant has a great atmosphere with plenty of space and wide gaps between tables. There is a large private courtyard at the entrance that serves as a free parking lot.
Write a review, save the shop, and check in to get a free glass of fresh-squeezed juice.
The most popular dish is the garlic crawfish. You can really taste how fresh the shrimp is. The golden sauce from the crawfish is great for dipping the hand-torn flatbread (shoushibing), which is freshly griddled and tastes excellent.
The grilled squid is also delicious. Their ingredients are definitely fresh.
The spicy beef tripe (chanzui niudu) has a numbing and spicy flavor that is very good. Overall, this place has the potential to become a viral restaurant thanks to its service, environment, and taste. It is a bit pricey, with an average cost of over 200 yuan per person.
24. Maimaihong Beef Sliced Noodles
Don't underestimate this noodle shop. I will drive 40 minutes from Niujie to Haidian just for a bowl of these noodles. Maimaihong's beef sliced noodles (daoxiao mian) are definitely worth a visit. If you like this style, you won't be disappointed.
The shop is run by Hui Muslims from Jiaozuo, Henan. Their cold dishes are a specialty, and if you come for breakfast, you can have spicy soup (hulatang) in the Xiaoyao Town style, but with less spice to suit Beijing tastes.
Another specialty is their beef steamed buns (niurou baozi). These aren't pan-fried, but the large steamed kind, which you can also get in the morning.
I had a bowl of the deluxe beef sliced noodles. They give you plenty of meat, the broth is rich, the beef is tender, and the noodles are chewy.
For the cold dishes, you pick what you want, and they take it to the kitchen to add seasoning and mix it, which keeps everything fresh and tasty.
25. Hulun Aile Halal Hand-held Meat (shouba rou)
This shop used to be a hot pot place, but it recently changed into a Mongolian restaurant. The change was very successful.
They get their beef and lamb from Hulunbuir. The meat quality from the Inner Mongolian grasslands is excellent.
What drew us here was their afternoon tea with Inner Mongolian flair.
The milk tea comes with a plate of dairy products. This combination is truly tempting.
The Mongolian-style milk tea contains roasted millet (chaomi) and is served in a thermos to keep it warm.
For the hand-held beef steak (shouba niupai), you cut a piece with a small knife and spread chive flower sauce (jiucaihua) on it. It is delicious, and their three types of dipping sauces are all very authentic.
Buryat steamed buns (Buliya baozi) look like the thin-skinned buns from Xinjiang, but the dough is slightly thicker. They are filled with large chunks of lamb, full of broth, and taste great.
This is the most popular afternoon tea dairy platter of the day. The white part on top is cream, which you eat with the dairy products. The four cups contain concentrated milk; it tastes like ice bock (bingboke), which is milk concentrated by evaporating most of the water.
The Inner Mongolian milk ice cream is simple and bold. It is made of large chunks of milk ice, just like a popsicle, but no extra water is added. The texture is smooth and the milky flavor is rich. It is highly recommended. With the Mongolian food being so good, their hot pot seems plain, so I suggest you stick to the Mongolian dishes here.
26. Sanliujiu Wan Halal Beef Brisket Pot
This shop offers Cantonese-style Qingyuan chicken pot, beef brisket and offal pot, and Tianhu chicken pot, along with Cantonese dim sum. It is currently the only halal Cantonese restaurant in Beijing.
Claypot rice (baozai fan)
Claypot rice (baozai fan) is also a new dish. It must be made to order and takes 25 minutes to prepare. It uses Thai jasmine rice topped with beef sausage, and you can choose how many grams of sausage to add based on your preference.
The curry fish balls are very bouncy. The owner says he developed the recipe himself. He is a Hui Muslim from Shandong and the son of an imam.
Our group of 12 people ate through the new dim sum menu twice, and the cost was about 120 yuan per person.
After eating this Hong Kong-style dim sum, you could say there are no gaps left in Beijing's halal food scene. You can find a halal version of every major cuisine in Beijing now.
27. Zaizai Niu Chaoshan Beef Hot Pot
This newly opened Chaoshan beef hot pot place in Xiguanshi, Changping, is even better than the one in Pingle Yuan. The Yushanfang restaurant in Pingle Yuan has closed, so this is currently the only halal Chaoshan beef hot pot in Beijing.
We came at noon and it wasn't crowded. There was only one waitress, a kind lady who could help us cook the meat.
Every dish in the three-person set meal we bought was delicious. The shrimp paste gets a thumbs up, and the beef was especially fragrant. view all
Summary: This Beijing halal food guide covers the middle part of the 2024 must-eat list, including Azerbaijani dumplings, Iranian food, Ghanaian and West African cuisine, halal Peking duck, shabu-shabu, Yunnan flavors, hot pot, and halal Chaoshan beef hot pot.
Caucasian soup dumplings (gaojiaosuotangbao)
These are Azerbaijani soup dumplings. The owner is from Azerbaijan, so most of the servers are too. Their Chinese isn't great, but it has improved over the last few years.
15. Iranian Cuisine
It used to be called Persepolis, but now it is named Iranian Cuisine. The cooking style hasn't changed, but I think it tastes better now than before. This is the only Iranian restaurant in Beijing, excluding the one inside the Iranian embassy.
I like this spot in their courtyard; it is a typical Iranian residential style.
Saffron pilaf (zanghonghuazhuafan)
I have been here many times. They have a buffet at lunch, and for dinner, they serve Western food like grilled meat and burgers, plus coffee and afternoon tea.
16. TRIBE GARDEN African Tribe Garden Restaurant
A new halal restaurant featuring West African specialties recently opened on the first basement level of the Sanlitun SOHO mall, focusing on Ghanaian cuisine. The staff are all Black Muslims who speak fluent Chinese, and one young lady from Kenya is especially lovely.
Ghana is a country in West Africa where about 15% of the population is Muslim, yet their national banknote features a picture of a mosque with a unique style.
Larabanga Mosque
The Larabanga Mosque (Larabanga Mosque) on the banknote was built between the 14th and 15th centuries. It is the oldest mosque in Ghana. Its architectural style is unique to West Africa, built with yellow mud and wood, making it very iconic.
The restaurant decor also has a strong African feel, including the wall hangings.
African goat meat mixed rice
African goat meat is a bit tough, but it has no gamey smell. The mixed rice tastes salty and spicy.
Non-alcoholic mojito and fruit punch
African specialty egusi (egusi)
This dish is meant to be eaten mixed with the cassava flour paste shown in the picture below. Eating the cassava flour paste is just like eating rice cake.
Fufu (fufu)
The white one is called fufu, which translates to rice flour paste in Chinese. It is the staple food for Ghanaians.
Friday special dish
They have a special dish every day. This Friday special is made with beans and rice, served with some noodles and dipping sauce. It tastes sour, salty, and spicy all at once.
Grilled tilapia
This is African-style grilled fish. It tastes great. Don't let the charred skin fool you; the meat inside is white.
A young lady from Kenya recommended this milkshake to us. It is very creamy and delicious. The total for this meal was 530 yuan for four people, which comes to 130 yuan per person.
17. Rongqing Laoman Guizhou Sour Soup Fish Hot Pot
This Guizhou sour soup hot pot restaurant changed its style and is the only halal Guizhou restaurant in Beijing. Their signature dishes are beef hot pot and fish hot pot. When we visited, the business was already starting to take off, and I hear there are long lines now, with an average wait time of over an hour.
The owner originally planned to serve Guizhou-style stir-fried dishes, but the hot pot business became so popular that they stopped making stir-fries. Now, they only serve hot pot.
We had three glasses of homemade prickly pear juice (cili zhi). It was sweet, sour, and icy cold. They only had three of these glasses, so we took them all, and other customers had to order different drinks.
The dipping sauce (zhanshui) is the soul of the meal. I suggest following the guide posted by the shop to mix your sauce. You must try the litsea cubeba oil (mujiangzi you), mint leaves, chili powder (hu lajiao mian), and fish mint (zhe'ergen).
The full beef feast set includes beef and various beef offal. The ingredients are very fresh. If you like fish, choose the river catfish (jiangtuan). One fish weighs about 1.15 kilograms, and the meat is firm with no small bones.
If you save the shop on your map and check in, you get free iced jelly (bingfen). The jelly is just okay, but the signature beef and fish hot pot are worth a try.
18. Xunji Tan Sheep Hot Pot
Xunji is a chain restaurant. There is one in Gulou and another one in Qingnian Road. The two shops have very different decor, but both are high-end and elegant. The Qingnian Road location has a particularly fresh and unique atmosphere. It is much larger than the Gulou shop and has plenty of free parking.
When you enter the courtyard, you first walk through a bamboo grove. Mist floats along both sides of the path, making it feel like a fairyland.
The courtyard is filled with flowers and green plants, including many brightly colored hydrangeas.
The courtyard has open-air seating and tented private rooms. Each tent is equipped with air conditioning, lights, and a sound system.
There is an indoor dining hall, but in the summer, everyone prefers to sit in the courtyard to enjoy the flowers and food.
The dining tables in the tented rooms have microphones. If you speak near the table, you can hear an echo, which makes chatting easier.
This restaurant is a top-tier halal establishment in Beijing. The average cost per person is between 400 and 500 yuan. The restaurant charges per head and currently only serves hot pot. They can host wedding banquets for about 150 people. Wedding banquets are also charged per head, so a wedding for 100 people costs only 50,000 to 60,000 yuan, which is very affordable for Beijing.
Xunji Gulou Courtyard has a different, classical style. You can sit on the terrace and eat hot pot with the Drum Tower behind you.
At sunset, the scene of eating hot pot with the Drum Tower in the background is stunning. Oriental Selection even came here to host a live stream.
All ingredients are fresh and high-quality. You just wait for the servers to bring the dishes in order. Each private room has a dedicated server to provide attentive service. The dishes are served in this order: drinks, cold appetizers, hot pot ingredients, staples, and dessert. You can order extra portions of anything you like without extra charges. It is like paying 300 to 500 yuan for a high-end buffet, so it is not expensive.
19. Baoding beef covered pancake (niurou zhaobing)
I once drove all the way to Miyun just to eat halal covered pancake (zhaobing). When I heard a halal zhaobing shop opened in Baiziwan, I came to try it. The taste is even better than the one in Miyun. Now, this shop has also opened a branch in Daxing.
One cover two means one liang of meat and two liang of flatbread. I chose the single set meal of one cover three, which is two liang of beef and three liang of flatbread. The shop just opened and they are still hiring staff. They only serve covered flatbread (zhaobing) and braised chicken (luzhuji), which is also a specialty of Baoding.
I have eaten covered flatbread in Baoding, and the taste is basically the same as this place.
20. Azerbaijan National Pavilion Maiden Tower Restaurant
A new restaurant opened on the third floor of the Azerbaijan National Pavilion. It is named after the Maiden Tower, which is a tourist attraction in Azerbaijan. This is the only halal Azerbaijani restaurant in Beijing, so it is worth noting.
The restaurant is inside the pavilion, so you can enjoy Azerbaijani folk handicrafts while you eat.
Many Azerbaijani chefs work abroad. Many of the Turkish restaurants we often eat at are actually run by Azerbaijanis.
The dishes here suit our tastes well, including these snacks, which are also good for babies to eat.
Creamy eggplant rolls (xiangnai qiezijuan)
Jeliteme roast chicken (jeliteme kaoji)
Beef rice with chestnut and pomegranate sauce (lizi shiliujiang niuroufan)
Nut cake
The restaurant is near Sanyuanqiao. It costs about 150 yuan per person. It is good for business dinners and dates.
21. Alkhaleej Mandi Kitchen
This is a newly opened Dubai halal restaurant in Sanlitun. The owner is an Arab from Dubai and has another shop there. The staff said the ingredients are imported from the Middle East. After eating here, I can say that is true. It reminds me of the mandi I ate in Makkah last year. It is a perfect recreation of Middle Eastern flavors.
This is a non-alcoholic restaurant. I worry about whether it can stay open for a long time because the owner is spending a lot of money, but the Beijing restaurant market is slow this year. Even in Sanlitun on the weekend, there are not many people.
You can smell the familiar scent of agarwood in the shop.
The small cup of Arabic milk tea the waiter brought tastes exactly like the one I had in Abu Dhabi.
The handmade Yemeni flatbread (khubz) comes with various dips and is delicious. The chefs are all Arabs from the Middle East.
Desert colorful chicken mandi
The special handmade Yemeni flatbread is very tasty, has a strong wheat aroma, and is very large.
Royal pastry, it has a texture like sticky rice and contains banana. This dessert is not sweet at all.
Lamb mandi
Grilled fish served with rice. The fish itself has no flavor, so you need to eat it with three different dipping sauces.
The mandi is amazing. The chicken inside is stewed until it is extremely soft and tender, and the rice gets its color from added spices.
22. Stinky Star Snail Rice Noodle (luosifen) Hot Pot
This halal snail rice noodle shop is on the ground floor of the Golden Street in the West District of Tongzhou Wanda Plaza. The owner is a Hui Muslim from Changchun who used to work at iQIYI before opening this physical shop. The small shop has two floors and mainly serves halal snail rice noodles and clam (huajia) noodle hot pots.
The snail rice noodle hot pot comes with a wide variety of ingredients that you can add to the pot to cook together.
Halal snail rice noodles are rare, but you can find them at the halal canteen of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. However, you need a student or teacher from inside to guide you in. If you don't have any connections, just come to Tongzhou Wanda.
This hot pot set for two costs 78 yuan and is enough for two or three people to eat.
The set comes with Guangxi cassava sweet soup.
Add all the side dishes to the pot and cook for 1 minute to start eating. The taste is quite authentic.
23. Fanshen Lobster Restaurant
A newly opened crayfish restaurant in Baiziwan. The owner is from Langfang, and it is currently only open for dinner until the early morning.
You can eat aquatic products like crayfish. For details, you can check my previous article, How does the Hanafi school view shrimp? They also serve local specialties from Cangzhou, Hebei, like hot pot chicken (huoguo ji) and spicy crab (xiangla xie).
The restaurant has a great atmosphere with plenty of space and wide gaps between tables. There is a large private courtyard at the entrance that serves as a free parking lot.
Write a review, save the shop, and check in to get a free glass of fresh-squeezed juice.
The most popular dish is the garlic crawfish. You can really taste how fresh the shrimp is. The golden sauce from the crawfish is great for dipping the hand-torn flatbread (shoushibing), which is freshly griddled and tastes excellent.
The grilled squid is also delicious. Their ingredients are definitely fresh.
The spicy beef tripe (chanzui niudu) has a numbing and spicy flavor that is very good. Overall, this place has the potential to become a viral restaurant thanks to its service, environment, and taste. It is a bit pricey, with an average cost of over 200 yuan per person.
24. Maimaihong Beef Sliced Noodles
Don't underestimate this noodle shop. I will drive 40 minutes from Niujie to Haidian just for a bowl of these noodles. Maimaihong's beef sliced noodles (daoxiao mian) are definitely worth a visit. If you like this style, you won't be disappointed.
The shop is run by Hui Muslims from Jiaozuo, Henan. Their cold dishes are a specialty, and if you come for breakfast, you can have spicy soup (hulatang) in the Xiaoyao Town style, but with less spice to suit Beijing tastes.
Another specialty is their beef steamed buns (niurou baozi). These aren't pan-fried, but the large steamed kind, which you can also get in the morning.
I had a bowl of the deluxe beef sliced noodles. They give you plenty of meat, the broth is rich, the beef is tender, and the noodles are chewy.
For the cold dishes, you pick what you want, and they take it to the kitchen to add seasoning and mix it, which keeps everything fresh and tasty.
25. Hulun Aile Halal Hand-held Meat (shouba rou)
This shop used to be a hot pot place, but it recently changed into a Mongolian restaurant. The change was very successful.
They get their beef and lamb from Hulunbuir. The meat quality from the Inner Mongolian grasslands is excellent.
What drew us here was their afternoon tea with Inner Mongolian flair.
The milk tea comes with a plate of dairy products. This combination is truly tempting.
The Mongolian-style milk tea contains roasted millet (chaomi) and is served in a thermos to keep it warm.
For the hand-held beef steak (shouba niupai), you cut a piece with a small knife and spread chive flower sauce (jiucaihua) on it. It is delicious, and their three types of dipping sauces are all very authentic.
Buryat steamed buns (Buliya baozi) look like the thin-skinned buns from Xinjiang, but the dough is slightly thicker. They are filled with large chunks of lamb, full of broth, and taste great.
This is the most popular afternoon tea dairy platter of the day. The white part on top is cream, which you eat with the dairy products. The four cups contain concentrated milk; it tastes like ice bock (bingboke), which is milk concentrated by evaporating most of the water.
The Inner Mongolian milk ice cream is simple and bold. It is made of large chunks of milk ice, just like a popsicle, but no extra water is added. The texture is smooth and the milky flavor is rich. It is highly recommended. With the Mongolian food being so good, their hot pot seems plain, so I suggest you stick to the Mongolian dishes here.
26. Sanliujiu Wan Halal Beef Brisket Pot
This shop offers Cantonese-style Qingyuan chicken pot, beef brisket and offal pot, and Tianhu chicken pot, along with Cantonese dim sum. It is currently the only halal Cantonese restaurant in Beijing.
Claypot rice (baozai fan)
Claypot rice (baozai fan) is also a new dish. It must be made to order and takes 25 minutes to prepare. It uses Thai jasmine rice topped with beef sausage, and you can choose how many grams of sausage to add based on your preference.
The curry fish balls are very bouncy. The owner says he developed the recipe himself. He is a Hui Muslim from Shandong and the son of an imam.
Our group of 12 people ate through the new dim sum menu twice, and the cost was about 120 yuan per person.
After eating this Hong Kong-style dim sum, you could say there are no gaps left in Beijing's halal food scene. You can find a halal version of every major cuisine in Beijing now.
27. Zaizai Niu Chaoshan Beef Hot Pot
This newly opened Chaoshan beef hot pot place in Xiguanshi, Changping, is even better than the one in Pingle Yuan. The Yushanfang restaurant in Pingle Yuan has closed, so this is currently the only halal Chaoshan beef hot pot in Beijing.
We came at noon and it wasn't crowded. There was only one waitress, a kind lady who could help us cook the meat.
Every dish in the three-person set meal we bought was delicious. The shrimp paste gets a thumbs up, and the beef was especially fragrant. view all
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Summary: This Beijing halal food guide covers the middle part of the 2024 must-eat list, including Azerbaijani dumplings, Iranian food, Ghanaian and West African cuisine, halal Peking duck, shabu-shabu, Yunnan flavors, hot pot, and halal Chaoshan beef hot pot.
Caucasian soup dumplings (gaojiaosuotangbao)
These are Azerbaijani soup dumplings. The owner is from Azerbaijan, so most of the servers are too. Their Chinese isn't great, but it has improved over the last few years.
15. Iranian Cuisine
It used to be called Persepolis, but now it is named Iranian Cuisine. The cooking style hasn't changed, but I think it tastes better now than before. This is the only Iranian restaurant in Beijing, excluding the one inside the Iranian embassy.
I like this spot in their courtyard; it is a typical Iranian residential style.
Saffron pilaf (zanghonghuazhuafan)
I have been here many times. They have a buffet at lunch, and for dinner, they serve Western food like grilled meat and burgers, plus coffee and afternoon tea.
16. TRIBE GARDEN African Tribe Garden Restaurant
A new halal restaurant featuring West African specialties recently opened on the first basement level of the Sanlitun SOHO mall, focusing on Ghanaian cuisine. The staff are all Black Muslims who speak fluent Chinese, and one young lady from Kenya is especially lovely.
Ghana is a country in West Africa where about 15% of the population is Muslim, yet their national banknote features a picture of a mosque with a unique style.
Larabanga Mosque
The Larabanga Mosque (Larabanga Mosque) on the banknote was built between the 14th and 15th centuries. It is the oldest mosque in Ghana. Its architectural style is unique to West Africa, built with yellow mud and wood, making it very iconic.
The restaurant decor also has a strong African feel, including the wall hangings.
African goat meat mixed rice
African goat meat is a bit tough, but it has no gamey smell. The mixed rice tastes salty and spicy.
Non-alcoholic mojito and fruit punch
African specialty egusi (egusi)
This dish is meant to be eaten mixed with the cassava flour paste shown in the picture below. Eating the cassava flour paste is just like eating rice cake.
Fufu (fufu)
The white one is called fufu, which translates to rice flour paste in Chinese. It is the staple food for Ghanaians.
Friday special dish
They have a special dish every day. This Friday special is made with beans and rice, served with some noodles and dipping sauce. It tastes sour, salty, and spicy all at once.
Grilled tilapia
This is African-style grilled fish. It tastes great. Don't let the charred skin fool you; the meat inside is white.
A young lady from Kenya recommended this milkshake to us. It is very creamy and delicious. The total for this meal was 530 yuan for four people, which comes to 130 yuan per person.
17. Rongqing Laoman Guizhou Sour Soup Fish Hot Pot
This Guizhou sour soup hot pot restaurant changed its style and is the only halal Guizhou restaurant in Beijing. Their signature dishes are beef hot pot and fish hot pot. When we visited, the business was already starting to take off, and I hear there are long lines now, with an average wait time of over an hour.
The owner originally planned to serve Guizhou-style stir-fried dishes, but the hot pot business became so popular that they stopped making stir-fries. Now, they only serve hot pot.
We had three glasses of homemade prickly pear juice (cili zhi). It was sweet, sour, and icy cold. They only had three of these glasses, so we took them all, and other customers had to order different drinks.
The dipping sauce (zhanshui) is the soul of the meal. I suggest following the guide posted by the shop to mix your sauce. You must try the litsea cubeba oil (mujiangzi you), mint leaves, chili powder (hu lajiao mian), and fish mint (zhe'ergen).
The full beef feast set includes beef and various beef offal. The ingredients are very fresh. If you like fish, choose the river catfish (jiangtuan). One fish weighs about 1.15 kilograms, and the meat is firm with no small bones.
If you save the shop on your map and check in, you get free iced jelly (bingfen). The jelly is just okay, but the signature beef and fish hot pot are worth a try.
18. Xunji Tan Sheep Hot Pot
Xunji is a chain restaurant. There is one in Gulou and another one in Qingnian Road. The two shops have very different decor, but both are high-end and elegant. The Qingnian Road location has a particularly fresh and unique atmosphere. It is much larger than the Gulou shop and has plenty of free parking.
When you enter the courtyard, you first walk through a bamboo grove. Mist floats along both sides of the path, making it feel like a fairyland.
The courtyard is filled with flowers and green plants, including many brightly colored hydrangeas.
The courtyard has open-air seating and tented private rooms. Each tent is equipped with air conditioning, lights, and a sound system.
There is an indoor dining hall, but in the summer, everyone prefers to sit in the courtyard to enjoy the flowers and food.
The dining tables in the tented rooms have microphones. If you speak near the table, you can hear an echo, which makes chatting easier.
This restaurant is a top-tier halal establishment in Beijing. The average cost per person is between 400 and 500 yuan. The restaurant charges per head and currently only serves hot pot. They can host wedding banquets for about 150 people. Wedding banquets are also charged per head, so a wedding for 100 people costs only 50,000 to 60,000 yuan, which is very affordable for Beijing.
Xunji Gulou Courtyard has a different, classical style. You can sit on the terrace and eat hot pot with the Drum Tower behind you.
At sunset, the scene of eating hot pot with the Drum Tower in the background is stunning. Oriental Selection even came here to host a live stream.
All ingredients are fresh and high-quality. You just wait for the servers to bring the dishes in order. Each private room has a dedicated server to provide attentive service. The dishes are served in this order: drinks, cold appetizers, hot pot ingredients, staples, and dessert. You can order extra portions of anything you like without extra charges. It is like paying 300 to 500 yuan for a high-end buffet, so it is not expensive.
19. Baoding beef covered pancake (niurou zhaobing)
I once drove all the way to Miyun just to eat halal covered pancake (zhaobing). When I heard a halal zhaobing shop opened in Baiziwan, I came to try it. The taste is even better than the one in Miyun. Now, this shop has also opened a branch in Daxing.
One cover two means one liang of meat and two liang of flatbread. I chose the single set meal of one cover three, which is two liang of beef and three liang of flatbread. The shop just opened and they are still hiring staff. They only serve covered flatbread (zhaobing) and braised chicken (luzhuji), which is also a specialty of Baoding.
I have eaten covered flatbread in Baoding, and the taste is basically the same as this place.
20. Azerbaijan National Pavilion Maiden Tower Restaurant
A new restaurant opened on the third floor of the Azerbaijan National Pavilion. It is named after the Maiden Tower, which is a tourist attraction in Azerbaijan. This is the only halal Azerbaijani restaurant in Beijing, so it is worth noting.
The restaurant is inside the pavilion, so you can enjoy Azerbaijani folk handicrafts while you eat.
Many Azerbaijani chefs work abroad. Many of the Turkish restaurants we often eat at are actually run by Azerbaijanis.
The dishes here suit our tastes well, including these snacks, which are also good for babies to eat.
Creamy eggplant rolls (xiangnai qiezijuan)
Jeliteme roast chicken (jeliteme kaoji)
Beef rice with chestnut and pomegranate sauce (lizi shiliujiang niuroufan)
Nut cake
The restaurant is near Sanyuanqiao. It costs about 150 yuan per person. It is good for business dinners and dates.
21. Alkhaleej Mandi Kitchen
This is a newly opened Dubai halal restaurant in Sanlitun. The owner is an Arab from Dubai and has another shop there. The staff said the ingredients are imported from the Middle East. After eating here, I can say that is true. It reminds me of the mandi I ate in Makkah last year. It is a perfect recreation of Middle Eastern flavors.
This is a non-alcoholic restaurant. I worry about whether it can stay open for a long time because the owner is spending a lot of money, but the Beijing restaurant market is slow this year. Even in Sanlitun on the weekend, there are not many people.
You can smell the familiar scent of agarwood in the shop.
The small cup of Arabic milk tea the waiter brought tastes exactly like the one I had in Abu Dhabi.
The handmade Yemeni flatbread (khubz) comes with various dips and is delicious. The chefs are all Arabs from the Middle East.
Desert colorful chicken mandi
The special handmade Yemeni flatbread is very tasty, has a strong wheat aroma, and is very large.
Royal pastry, it has a texture like sticky rice and contains banana. This dessert is not sweet at all.
Lamb mandi
Grilled fish served with rice. The fish itself has no flavor, so you need to eat it with three different dipping sauces.
The mandi is amazing. The chicken inside is stewed until it is extremely soft and tender, and the rice gets its color from added spices.
22. Stinky Star Snail Rice Noodle (luosifen) Hot Pot
This halal snail rice noodle shop is on the ground floor of the Golden Street in the West District of Tongzhou Wanda Plaza. The owner is a Hui Muslim from Changchun who used to work at iQIYI before opening this physical shop. The small shop has two floors and mainly serves halal snail rice noodles and clam (huajia) noodle hot pots.
The snail rice noodle hot pot comes with a wide variety of ingredients that you can add to the pot to cook together.
Halal snail rice noodles are rare, but you can find them at the halal canteen of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. However, you need a student or teacher from inside to guide you in. If you don't have any connections, just come to Tongzhou Wanda.
This hot pot set for two costs 78 yuan and is enough for two or three people to eat.
The set comes with Guangxi cassava sweet soup.
Add all the side dishes to the pot and cook for 1 minute to start eating. The taste is quite authentic.
23. Fanshen Lobster Restaurant
A newly opened crayfish restaurant in Baiziwan. The owner is from Langfang, and it is currently only open for dinner until the early morning.
You can eat aquatic products like crayfish. For details, you can check my previous article, How does the Hanafi school view shrimp? They also serve local specialties from Cangzhou, Hebei, like hot pot chicken (huoguo ji) and spicy crab (xiangla xie).
The restaurant has a great atmosphere with plenty of space and wide gaps between tables. There is a large private courtyard at the entrance that serves as a free parking lot.
Write a review, save the shop, and check in to get a free glass of fresh-squeezed juice.
The most popular dish is the garlic crawfish. You can really taste how fresh the shrimp is. The golden sauce from the crawfish is great for dipping the hand-torn flatbread (shoushibing), which is freshly griddled and tastes excellent.
The grilled squid is also delicious. Their ingredients are definitely fresh.
The spicy beef tripe (chanzui niudu) has a numbing and spicy flavor that is very good. Overall, this place has the potential to become a viral restaurant thanks to its service, environment, and taste. It is a bit pricey, with an average cost of over 200 yuan per person.
24. Maimaihong Beef Sliced Noodles
Don't underestimate this noodle shop. I will drive 40 minutes from Niujie to Haidian just for a bowl of these noodles. Maimaihong's beef sliced noodles (daoxiao mian) are definitely worth a visit. If you like this style, you won't be disappointed.
The shop is run by Hui Muslims from Jiaozuo, Henan. Their cold dishes are a specialty, and if you come for breakfast, you can have spicy soup (hulatang) in the Xiaoyao Town style, but with less spice to suit Beijing tastes.
Another specialty is their beef steamed buns (niurou baozi). These aren't pan-fried, but the large steamed kind, which you can also get in the morning.
I had a bowl of the deluxe beef sliced noodles. They give you plenty of meat, the broth is rich, the beef is tender, and the noodles are chewy.
For the cold dishes, you pick what you want, and they take it to the kitchen to add seasoning and mix it, which keeps everything fresh and tasty.
25. Hulun Aile Halal Hand-held Meat (shouba rou)
This shop used to be a hot pot place, but it recently changed into a Mongolian restaurant. The change was very successful.
They get their beef and lamb from Hulunbuir. The meat quality from the Inner Mongolian grasslands is excellent.
What drew us here was their afternoon tea with Inner Mongolian flair.
The milk tea comes with a plate of dairy products. This combination is truly tempting.
The Mongolian-style milk tea contains roasted millet (chaomi) and is served in a thermos to keep it warm.
For the hand-held beef steak (shouba niupai), you cut a piece with a small knife and spread chive flower sauce (jiucaihua) on it. It is delicious, and their three types of dipping sauces are all very authentic.
Buryat steamed buns (Buliya baozi) look like the thin-skinned buns from Xinjiang, but the dough is slightly thicker. They are filled with large chunks of lamb, full of broth, and taste great.
This is the most popular afternoon tea dairy platter of the day. The white part on top is cream, which you eat with the dairy products. The four cups contain concentrated milk; it tastes like ice bock (bingboke), which is milk concentrated by evaporating most of the water.
The Inner Mongolian milk ice cream is simple and bold. It is made of large chunks of milk ice, just like a popsicle, but no extra water is added. The texture is smooth and the milky flavor is rich. It is highly recommended. With the Mongolian food being so good, their hot pot seems plain, so I suggest you stick to the Mongolian dishes here.
26. Sanliujiu Wan Halal Beef Brisket Pot
This shop offers Cantonese-style Qingyuan chicken pot, beef brisket and offal pot, and Tianhu chicken pot, along with Cantonese dim sum. It is currently the only halal Cantonese restaurant in Beijing.
Claypot rice (baozai fan)
Claypot rice (baozai fan) is also a new dish. It must be made to order and takes 25 minutes to prepare. It uses Thai jasmine rice topped with beef sausage, and you can choose how many grams of sausage to add based on your preference.
The curry fish balls are very bouncy. The owner says he developed the recipe himself. He is a Hui Muslim from Shandong and the son of an imam.
Our group of 12 people ate through the new dim sum menu twice, and the cost was about 120 yuan per person.
After eating this Hong Kong-style dim sum, you could say there are no gaps left in Beijing's halal food scene. You can find a halal version of every major cuisine in Beijing now.
27. Zaizai Niu Chaoshan Beef Hot Pot
This newly opened Chaoshan beef hot pot place in Xiguanshi, Changping, is even better than the one in Pingle Yuan. The Yushanfang restaurant in Pingle Yuan has closed, so this is currently the only halal Chaoshan beef hot pot in Beijing.
We came at noon and it wasn't crowded. There was only one waitress, a kind lady who could help us cook the meat.
Every dish in the three-person set meal we bought was delicious. The shrimp paste gets a thumbs up, and the beef was especially fragrant.
Summary: This Beijing halal food guide covers the middle part of the 2024 must-eat list, including Azerbaijani dumplings, Iranian food, Ghanaian and West African cuisine, halal Peking duck, shabu-shabu, Yunnan flavors, hot pot, and halal Chaoshan beef hot pot.
Caucasian soup dumplings (gaojiaosuotangbao)
These are Azerbaijani soup dumplings. The owner is from Azerbaijan, so most of the servers are too. Their Chinese isn't great, but it has improved over the last few years.
15. Iranian Cuisine
It used to be called Persepolis, but now it is named Iranian Cuisine. The cooking style hasn't changed, but I think it tastes better now than before. This is the only Iranian restaurant in Beijing, excluding the one inside the Iranian embassy.
I like this spot in their courtyard; it is a typical Iranian residential style.
Saffron pilaf (zanghonghuazhuafan)
I have been here many times. They have a buffet at lunch, and for dinner, they serve Western food like grilled meat and burgers, plus coffee and afternoon tea.
16. TRIBE GARDEN African Tribe Garden Restaurant
A new halal restaurant featuring West African specialties recently opened on the first basement level of the Sanlitun SOHO mall, focusing on Ghanaian cuisine. The staff are all Black Muslims who speak fluent Chinese, and one young lady from Kenya is especially lovely.
Ghana is a country in West Africa where about 15% of the population is Muslim, yet their national banknote features a picture of a mosque with a unique style.
Larabanga Mosque
The Larabanga Mosque (Larabanga Mosque) on the banknote was built between the 14th and 15th centuries. It is the oldest mosque in Ghana. Its architectural style is unique to West Africa, built with yellow mud and wood, making it very iconic.
The restaurant decor also has a strong African feel, including the wall hangings.
African goat meat mixed rice
African goat meat is a bit tough, but it has no gamey smell. The mixed rice tastes salty and spicy.
Non-alcoholic mojito and fruit punch
African specialty egusi (egusi)
This dish is meant to be eaten mixed with the cassava flour paste shown in the picture below. Eating the cassava flour paste is just like eating rice cake.
Fufu (fufu)
The white one is called fufu, which translates to rice flour paste in Chinese. It is the staple food for Ghanaians.
Friday special dish
They have a special dish every day. This Friday special is made with beans and rice, served with some noodles and dipping sauce. It tastes sour, salty, and spicy all at once.
Grilled tilapia
This is African-style grilled fish. It tastes great. Don't let the charred skin fool you; the meat inside is white.
A young lady from Kenya recommended this milkshake to us. It is very creamy and delicious. The total for this meal was 530 yuan for four people, which comes to 130 yuan per person.
17. Rongqing Laoman Guizhou Sour Soup Fish Hot Pot
This Guizhou sour soup hot pot restaurant changed its style and is the only halal Guizhou restaurant in Beijing. Their signature dishes are beef hot pot and fish hot pot. When we visited, the business was already starting to take off, and I hear there are long lines now, with an average wait time of over an hour.
The owner originally planned to serve Guizhou-style stir-fried dishes, but the hot pot business became so popular that they stopped making stir-fries. Now, they only serve hot pot.
We had three glasses of homemade prickly pear juice (cili zhi). It was sweet, sour, and icy cold. They only had three of these glasses, so we took them all, and other customers had to order different drinks.
The dipping sauce (zhanshui) is the soul of the meal. I suggest following the guide posted by the shop to mix your sauce. You must try the litsea cubeba oil (mujiangzi you), mint leaves, chili powder (hu lajiao mian), and fish mint (zhe'ergen).
The full beef feast set includes beef and various beef offal. The ingredients are very fresh. If you like fish, choose the river catfish (jiangtuan). One fish weighs about 1.15 kilograms, and the meat is firm with no small bones.
If you save the shop on your map and check in, you get free iced jelly (bingfen). The jelly is just okay, but the signature beef and fish hot pot are worth a try.
18. Xunji Tan Sheep Hot Pot
Xunji is a chain restaurant. There is one in Gulou and another one in Qingnian Road. The two shops have very different decor, but both are high-end and elegant. The Qingnian Road location has a particularly fresh and unique atmosphere. It is much larger than the Gulou shop and has plenty of free parking.
When you enter the courtyard, you first walk through a bamboo grove. Mist floats along both sides of the path, making it feel like a fairyland.
The courtyard is filled with flowers and green plants, including many brightly colored hydrangeas.
The courtyard has open-air seating and tented private rooms. Each tent is equipped with air conditioning, lights, and a sound system.
There is an indoor dining hall, but in the summer, everyone prefers to sit in the courtyard to enjoy the flowers and food.
The dining tables in the tented rooms have microphones. If you speak near the table, you can hear an echo, which makes chatting easier.
This restaurant is a top-tier halal establishment in Beijing. The average cost per person is between 400 and 500 yuan. The restaurant charges per head and currently only serves hot pot. They can host wedding banquets for about 150 people. Wedding banquets are also charged per head, so a wedding for 100 people costs only 50,000 to 60,000 yuan, which is very affordable for Beijing.
Xunji Gulou Courtyard has a different, classical style. You can sit on the terrace and eat hot pot with the Drum Tower behind you.
At sunset, the scene of eating hot pot with the Drum Tower in the background is stunning. Oriental Selection even came here to host a live stream.
All ingredients are fresh and high-quality. You just wait for the servers to bring the dishes in order. Each private room has a dedicated server to provide attentive service. The dishes are served in this order: drinks, cold appetizers, hot pot ingredients, staples, and dessert. You can order extra portions of anything you like without extra charges. It is like paying 300 to 500 yuan for a high-end buffet, so it is not expensive.
19. Baoding beef covered pancake (niurou zhaobing)
I once drove all the way to Miyun just to eat halal covered pancake (zhaobing). When I heard a halal zhaobing shop opened in Baiziwan, I came to try it. The taste is even better than the one in Miyun. Now, this shop has also opened a branch in Daxing.
One cover two means one liang of meat and two liang of flatbread. I chose the single set meal of one cover three, which is two liang of beef and three liang of flatbread. The shop just opened and they are still hiring staff. They only serve covered flatbread (zhaobing) and braised chicken (luzhuji), which is also a specialty of Baoding.
I have eaten covered flatbread in Baoding, and the taste is basically the same as this place.
20. Azerbaijan National Pavilion Maiden Tower Restaurant
A new restaurant opened on the third floor of the Azerbaijan National Pavilion. It is named after the Maiden Tower, which is a tourist attraction in Azerbaijan. This is the only halal Azerbaijani restaurant in Beijing, so it is worth noting.
The restaurant is inside the pavilion, so you can enjoy Azerbaijani folk handicrafts while you eat.
Many Azerbaijani chefs work abroad. Many of the Turkish restaurants we often eat at are actually run by Azerbaijanis.
The dishes here suit our tastes well, including these snacks, which are also good for babies to eat.
Creamy eggplant rolls (xiangnai qiezijuan)
Jeliteme roast chicken (jeliteme kaoji)
Beef rice with chestnut and pomegranate sauce (lizi shiliujiang niuroufan)
Nut cake
The restaurant is near Sanyuanqiao. It costs about 150 yuan per person. It is good for business dinners and dates.
21. Alkhaleej Mandi Kitchen
This is a newly opened Dubai halal restaurant in Sanlitun. The owner is an Arab from Dubai and has another shop there. The staff said the ingredients are imported from the Middle East. After eating here, I can say that is true. It reminds me of the mandi I ate in Makkah last year. It is a perfect recreation of Middle Eastern flavors.
This is a non-alcoholic restaurant. I worry about whether it can stay open for a long time because the owner is spending a lot of money, but the Beijing restaurant market is slow this year. Even in Sanlitun on the weekend, there are not many people.
You can smell the familiar scent of agarwood in the shop.
The small cup of Arabic milk tea the waiter brought tastes exactly like the one I had in Abu Dhabi.
The handmade Yemeni flatbread (khubz) comes with various dips and is delicious. The chefs are all Arabs from the Middle East.
Desert colorful chicken mandi
The special handmade Yemeni flatbread is very tasty, has a strong wheat aroma, and is very large.
Royal pastry, it has a texture like sticky rice and contains banana. This dessert is not sweet at all.
Lamb mandi
Grilled fish served with rice. The fish itself has no flavor, so you need to eat it with three different dipping sauces.
The mandi is amazing. The chicken inside is stewed until it is extremely soft and tender, and the rice gets its color from added spices.
22. Stinky Star Snail Rice Noodle (luosifen) Hot Pot
This halal snail rice noodle shop is on the ground floor of the Golden Street in the West District of Tongzhou Wanda Plaza. The owner is a Hui Muslim from Changchun who used to work at iQIYI before opening this physical shop. The small shop has two floors and mainly serves halal snail rice noodles and clam (huajia) noodle hot pots.
The snail rice noodle hot pot comes with a wide variety of ingredients that you can add to the pot to cook together.
Halal snail rice noodles are rare, but you can find them at the halal canteen of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. However, you need a student or teacher from inside to guide you in. If you don't have any connections, just come to Tongzhou Wanda.
This hot pot set for two costs 78 yuan and is enough for two or three people to eat.
The set comes with Guangxi cassava sweet soup.
Add all the side dishes to the pot and cook for 1 minute to start eating. The taste is quite authentic.
23. Fanshen Lobster Restaurant
A newly opened crayfish restaurant in Baiziwan. The owner is from Langfang, and it is currently only open for dinner until the early morning.
You can eat aquatic products like crayfish. For details, you can check my previous article, How does the Hanafi school view shrimp? They also serve local specialties from Cangzhou, Hebei, like hot pot chicken (huoguo ji) and spicy crab (xiangla xie).
The restaurant has a great atmosphere with plenty of space and wide gaps between tables. There is a large private courtyard at the entrance that serves as a free parking lot.
Write a review, save the shop, and check in to get a free glass of fresh-squeezed juice.
The most popular dish is the garlic crawfish. You can really taste how fresh the shrimp is. The golden sauce from the crawfish is great for dipping the hand-torn flatbread (shoushibing), which is freshly griddled and tastes excellent.
The grilled squid is also delicious. Their ingredients are definitely fresh.
The spicy beef tripe (chanzui niudu) has a numbing and spicy flavor that is very good. Overall, this place has the potential to become a viral restaurant thanks to its service, environment, and taste. It is a bit pricey, with an average cost of over 200 yuan per person.
24. Maimaihong Beef Sliced Noodles
Don't underestimate this noodle shop. I will drive 40 minutes from Niujie to Haidian just for a bowl of these noodles. Maimaihong's beef sliced noodles (daoxiao mian) are definitely worth a visit. If you like this style, you won't be disappointed.
The shop is run by Hui Muslims from Jiaozuo, Henan. Their cold dishes are a specialty, and if you come for breakfast, you can have spicy soup (hulatang) in the Xiaoyao Town style, but with less spice to suit Beijing tastes.
Another specialty is their beef steamed buns (niurou baozi). These aren't pan-fried, but the large steamed kind, which you can also get in the morning.
I had a bowl of the deluxe beef sliced noodles. They give you plenty of meat, the broth is rich, the beef is tender, and the noodles are chewy.
For the cold dishes, you pick what you want, and they take it to the kitchen to add seasoning and mix it, which keeps everything fresh and tasty.
25. Hulun Aile Halal Hand-held Meat (shouba rou)
This shop used to be a hot pot place, but it recently changed into a Mongolian restaurant. The change was very successful.
They get their beef and lamb from Hulunbuir. The meat quality from the Inner Mongolian grasslands is excellent.
What drew us here was their afternoon tea with Inner Mongolian flair.
The milk tea comes with a plate of dairy products. This combination is truly tempting.
The Mongolian-style milk tea contains roasted millet (chaomi) and is served in a thermos to keep it warm.
For the hand-held beef steak (shouba niupai), you cut a piece with a small knife and spread chive flower sauce (jiucaihua) on it. It is delicious, and their three types of dipping sauces are all very authentic.
Buryat steamed buns (Buliya baozi) look like the thin-skinned buns from Xinjiang, but the dough is slightly thicker. They are filled with large chunks of lamb, full of broth, and taste great.
This is the most popular afternoon tea dairy platter of the day. The white part on top is cream, which you eat with the dairy products. The four cups contain concentrated milk; it tastes like ice bock (bingboke), which is milk concentrated by evaporating most of the water.
The Inner Mongolian milk ice cream is simple and bold. It is made of large chunks of milk ice, just like a popsicle, but no extra water is added. The texture is smooth and the milky flavor is rich. It is highly recommended. With the Mongolian food being so good, their hot pot seems plain, so I suggest you stick to the Mongolian dishes here.
26. Sanliujiu Wan Halal Beef Brisket Pot
This shop offers Cantonese-style Qingyuan chicken pot, beef brisket and offal pot, and Tianhu chicken pot, along with Cantonese dim sum. It is currently the only halal Cantonese restaurant in Beijing.
Claypot rice (baozai fan)
Claypot rice (baozai fan) is also a new dish. It must be made to order and takes 25 minutes to prepare. It uses Thai jasmine rice topped with beef sausage, and you can choose how many grams of sausage to add based on your preference.
The curry fish balls are very bouncy. The owner says he developed the recipe himself. He is a Hui Muslim from Shandong and the son of an imam.
Our group of 12 people ate through the new dim sum menu twice, and the cost was about 120 yuan per person.
After eating this Hong Kong-style dim sum, you could say there are no gaps left in Beijing's halal food scene. You can find a halal version of every major cuisine in Beijing now.
27. Zaizai Niu Chaoshan Beef Hot Pot
This newly opened Chaoshan beef hot pot place in Xiguanshi, Changping, is even better than the one in Pingle Yuan. The Yushanfang restaurant in Pingle Yuan has closed, so this is currently the only halal Chaoshan beef hot pot in Beijing.
We came at noon and it wasn't crowded. There was only one waitress, a kind lady who could help us cook the meat.
Every dish in the three-person set meal we bought was delicious. The shrimp paste gets a thumbs up, and the beef was especially fragrant.
Real Muslim Food China: Xining Halal Baozi, Beef Hotpot & Qinghai Restaurant Map
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Summary: A real Muslim food map for Xining, Qinghai, covering halal baozi (steamed buns), beef hotpot, bakeries, local restaurants, and the original address and photo details from the Chinese article.
Nearly half of the restaurants in Xining are halal, and these halal spots do not serve alcohol. Decent restaurants even have prayer rooms. There are so many delicious choices in Xining that it is unrealistic to try them all, so I will just recommend the ones I have visited.
1. Turkish Mediterranean Restaurant
There is a very clear Turkish sign hanging outside the Xinqian building. You can take the elevator directly to the restaurant on the third floor. Once you enter, a server will lead you to a small private room. This is a feature of halal restaurants in Xining; the tables are in small partitioned areas, and when you pull the curtain, you have a private space to chat. I recommend the steak and desserts here.
Address: 3rd Floor, Xinqian International, Xiadu Avenue
2. Yifan Restaurant
As soon as you walk in, you see a prayer room and a place for wudu (small ablution). All kinds of facilities are available, which is very common in Xining.
You need to pay extra for napkins in Xining restaurants.
This was my first time eating Qinghai clay pot hot pot (tu huoguo). A huge pot like this only costs a little over 100 yuan. The top is covered with lamb, which is already cooked when served. The middle layer has glass noodles and lettuce, and the bottom has potatoes and radishes. By the time you finish the top, the bottom layer is cooked perfectly. It tastes great.
Address: Northeast corner of the intersection of Nanxiao Street and Qingzhen Lane
3. Jinmai Bakery
This is a chain store where you can order delicious cakes. Because the cream is whipped fresh to order, you have to wait an hour. A 14-inch cake costs a little over 100 yuan. They also have many pastries like egg tarts, cream puffs, and wife cakes (laopobing), which are all cheap and tasty.
Address: Jinniu Residential Area Branch, No. 22 Beixiao Street, Chengdong District
4. Dazhong Steamed Buns
This is a famous, long-standing shop that has been open for decades and is very popular. I often come here for breakfast. They have steamed buns (baozi) with potato filling and chive filling. The buns have thin skins and lots of filling. Pair them with a bowl of starch noodle soup (fen tang), and it is delicious.
5. Qingzhen Niububi Hot Pot
A halal hot pot chain from Chengdu has opened in Xining. My Salar brothers invited me to try it. We ordered the mild spicy version, but it did not feel spicy at all. Although the chili peppers in Qinghai are red, they are low in heat and are mainly used for color and aroma. The environment here is much more spacious than the Chengdu branch.
Address: Room 81-51, Building 2, No. 81 Shengli Road
6. Zhenxiang Porridge
Eating beef and lamb as a staple every day in Xining makes you crave something light occasionally. Beijing really lacks a halal porridge shop like this. They have various flavors of porridge and Cantonese-style snacks. I have eaten at Xiapo Porridge and Pancake Shop in Xiamen, and I hope these porridge shops can open branches in Beijing soon.
Address: No. 44-4 Nandajie (next to Fengfan Bar)
7. Qingzhen Jincai Hot Pot City
There are many hot pot restaurants in Xining. This one is quite large and the ingredients are fresh. Eating lamb in Xining is a treat because it has very little gamey smell. I ordered a specialty snack called dog-pissing-on-the-wall pancake (goujiaoniao). It is a thin pancake with oil poured over it, which looks like a dog urinating.
Address: No. 66, Xinqian International Plaza, Xiadu Avenue
8. Delu Yogurt Shop
I visited Xining twice and made sure to go to Mojia Street to taste the yogurt at Delu, a long-established shop. Qinghai yogurt has a unique flavor with a layer of yellow milk skin (naipizi) on top. You do not need to add extra sugar, and it tastes neither sour nor greasy, with a smooth texture.
Address: Mojia Street
9. Hasan Ice Cream Shop
The girl selling Hasan ice cream is exceptionally beautiful, like a beauty of the ice cream world. I praised her on Weibo and her family saw it, telling me she is already married (giggle). There are so many beautiful women from ethnic minorities in the east of Xining city. They know how to dress, and they are thin, fair-skinned, and have big eyes, making them a beautiful sight.
Address: Mojia Street
11. Baituo Halal Yak Hot Pot
To eat authentic halal yak hot pot, you must come to Xining. Although Lhasa also has yak hot pot, the altitude in Lhasa is higher, so the water does not boil well, which affects the texture of the meat when you cook it. You can also try Tibetan goat meat here. Yak meat is a bit tough, so I suggest pairing it with lamb and fatty beef.
Address: 2nd Floor, Building 1, Huheng Building, 67 Dongguan Street
12. Mazhong Food Court
Mazhong Food Court at 1 Mojia Street is the place most visitors go to, similar to the snack street at Wangfujing in Beijing. You must eat hand-grabbed meat (shouzhuarou). There are many places to eat it in Xining. Qinghai lamb is fresh and tender; I could not even smell any gamey odor while standing in front of the meat stall. Eat the hand-grabbed meat with raw garlic and pair it with a bottle of Qinghai yogurt for a balanced and satisfying meal.
Address: 1 Mojia Street
13. Kamila Tea Restaurant
There are many halal tea restaurants in Xining, perfect for dates, matchmaking, and drinking tea. People here really know how to enjoy life, spending an entire afternoon with a covered tea bowl (gaiwan).
Address: 2nd Floor, Yonghe Building, Xiguan Street
14. Jingxifeng Halal Restaurant
Xining Jingxifeng Halal Restaurant is the largest halal restaurant I have ever seen. It was built by turning an ecological park into a restaurant. Walking through the restaurant is like walking through a park, and there is even an artificial lake. The environment is beautiful and suitable for wedding banquets and wedding photos. The meal standard is only over 1,000 yuan per table, but People say there are even larger halal restaurants in Xining.
Address: Bayi Road, Chengdong District
15. Xinqian Lijing Sky Garden Halal Restaurant
This is a tropical rainforest-style halal restaurant. During the Spring Festival, there are newlyweds holding weddings here every day. The meal standard is also over 1,000 yuan, with an additional 3,000 yuan venue fee. I am amazed at how many high-end restaurants Hui Muslims in Xining can choose from for weddings, with both great environments and food.
Address: 66 Jianguo Street view all
Summary: A real Muslim food map for Xining, Qinghai, covering halal baozi (steamed buns), beef hotpot, bakeries, local restaurants, and the original address and photo details from the Chinese article.
Nearly half of the restaurants in Xining are halal, and these halal spots do not serve alcohol. Decent restaurants even have prayer rooms. There are so many delicious choices in Xining that it is unrealistic to try them all, so I will just recommend the ones I have visited.
1. Turkish Mediterranean Restaurant
There is a very clear Turkish sign hanging outside the Xinqian building. You can take the elevator directly to the restaurant on the third floor. Once you enter, a server will lead you to a small private room. This is a feature of halal restaurants in Xining; the tables are in small partitioned areas, and when you pull the curtain, you have a private space to chat. I recommend the steak and desserts here.
Address: 3rd Floor, Xinqian International, Xiadu Avenue
2. Yifan Restaurant
As soon as you walk in, you see a prayer room and a place for wudu (small ablution). All kinds of facilities are available, which is very common in Xining.
You need to pay extra for napkins in Xining restaurants.
This was my first time eating Qinghai clay pot hot pot (tu huoguo). A huge pot like this only costs a little over 100 yuan. The top is covered with lamb, which is already cooked when served. The middle layer has glass noodles and lettuce, and the bottom has potatoes and radishes. By the time you finish the top, the bottom layer is cooked perfectly. It tastes great.
Address: Northeast corner of the intersection of Nanxiao Street and Qingzhen Lane
3. Jinmai Bakery
This is a chain store where you can order delicious cakes. Because the cream is whipped fresh to order, you have to wait an hour. A 14-inch cake costs a little over 100 yuan. They also have many pastries like egg tarts, cream puffs, and wife cakes (laopobing), which are all cheap and tasty.
Address: Jinniu Residential Area Branch, No. 22 Beixiao Street, Chengdong District
4. Dazhong Steamed Buns
This is a famous, long-standing shop that has been open for decades and is very popular. I often come here for breakfast. They have steamed buns (baozi) with potato filling and chive filling. The buns have thin skins and lots of filling. Pair them with a bowl of starch noodle soup (fen tang), and it is delicious.
5. Qingzhen Niububi Hot Pot
A halal hot pot chain from Chengdu has opened in Xining. My Salar brothers invited me to try it. We ordered the mild spicy version, but it did not feel spicy at all. Although the chili peppers in Qinghai are red, they are low in heat and are mainly used for color and aroma. The environment here is much more spacious than the Chengdu branch.
Address: Room 81-51, Building 2, No. 81 Shengli Road
6. Zhenxiang Porridge
Eating beef and lamb as a staple every day in Xining makes you crave something light occasionally. Beijing really lacks a halal porridge shop like this. They have various flavors of porridge and Cantonese-style snacks. I have eaten at Xiapo Porridge and Pancake Shop in Xiamen, and I hope these porridge shops can open branches in Beijing soon.
Address: No. 44-4 Nandajie (next to Fengfan Bar)
7. Qingzhen Jincai Hot Pot City
There are many hot pot restaurants in Xining. This one is quite large and the ingredients are fresh. Eating lamb in Xining is a treat because it has very little gamey smell. I ordered a specialty snack called dog-pissing-on-the-wall pancake (goujiaoniao). It is a thin pancake with oil poured over it, which looks like a dog urinating.
Address: No. 66, Xinqian International Plaza, Xiadu Avenue
8. Delu Yogurt Shop
I visited Xining twice and made sure to go to Mojia Street to taste the yogurt at Delu, a long-established shop. Qinghai yogurt has a unique flavor with a layer of yellow milk skin (naipizi) on top. You do not need to add extra sugar, and it tastes neither sour nor greasy, with a smooth texture.
Address: Mojia Street
9. Hasan Ice Cream Shop
The girl selling Hasan ice cream is exceptionally beautiful, like a beauty of the ice cream world. I praised her on Weibo and her family saw it, telling me she is already married (giggle). There are so many beautiful women from ethnic minorities in the east of Xining city. They know how to dress, and they are thin, fair-skinned, and have big eyes, making them a beautiful sight.
Address: Mojia Street
11. Baituo Halal Yak Hot Pot
To eat authentic halal yak hot pot, you must come to Xining. Although Lhasa also has yak hot pot, the altitude in Lhasa is higher, so the water does not boil well, which affects the texture of the meat when you cook it. You can also try Tibetan goat meat here. Yak meat is a bit tough, so I suggest pairing it with lamb and fatty beef.
Address: 2nd Floor, Building 1, Huheng Building, 67 Dongguan Street
12. Mazhong Food Court
Mazhong Food Court at 1 Mojia Street is the place most visitors go to, similar to the snack street at Wangfujing in Beijing. You must eat hand-grabbed meat (shouzhuarou). There are many places to eat it in Xining. Qinghai lamb is fresh and tender; I could not even smell any gamey odor while standing in front of the meat stall. Eat the hand-grabbed meat with raw garlic and pair it with a bottle of Qinghai yogurt for a balanced and satisfying meal.
Address: 1 Mojia Street
13. Kamila Tea Restaurant
There are many halal tea restaurants in Xining, perfect for dates, matchmaking, and drinking tea. People here really know how to enjoy life, spending an entire afternoon with a covered tea bowl (gaiwan).
Address: 2nd Floor, Yonghe Building, Xiguan Street
14. Jingxifeng Halal Restaurant
Xining Jingxifeng Halal Restaurant is the largest halal restaurant I have ever seen. It was built by turning an ecological park into a restaurant. Walking through the restaurant is like walking through a park, and there is even an artificial lake. The environment is beautiful and suitable for wedding banquets and wedding photos. The meal standard is only over 1,000 yuan per table, but People say there are even larger halal restaurants in Xining.
Address: Bayi Road, Chengdong District
15. Xinqian Lijing Sky Garden Halal Restaurant
This is a tropical rainforest-style halal restaurant. During the Spring Festival, there are newlyweds holding weddings here every day. The meal standard is also over 1,000 yuan, with an additional 3,000 yuan venue fee. I am amazed at how many high-end restaurants Hui Muslims in Xining can choose from for weddings, with both great environments and food.
Address: 66 Jianguo Street view all
Reposted from the web
Summary: A real Muslim food map for Xining, Qinghai, covering halal baozi (steamed buns), beef hotpot, bakeries, local restaurants, and the original address and photo details from the Chinese article.
Nearly half of the restaurants in Xining are halal, and these halal spots do not serve alcohol. Decent restaurants even have prayer rooms. There are so many delicious choices in Xining that it is unrealistic to try them all, so I will just recommend the ones I have visited.
1. Turkish Mediterranean Restaurant
There is a very clear Turkish sign hanging outside the Xinqian building. You can take the elevator directly to the restaurant on the third floor. Once you enter, a server will lead you to a small private room. This is a feature of halal restaurants in Xining; the tables are in small partitioned areas, and when you pull the curtain, you have a private space to chat. I recommend the steak and desserts here.
Address: 3rd Floor, Xinqian International, Xiadu Avenue
2. Yifan Restaurant
As soon as you walk in, you see a prayer room and a place for wudu (small ablution). All kinds of facilities are available, which is very common in Xining.
You need to pay extra for napkins in Xining restaurants.
This was my first time eating Qinghai clay pot hot pot (tu huoguo). A huge pot like this only costs a little over 100 yuan. The top is covered with lamb, which is already cooked when served. The middle layer has glass noodles and lettuce, and the bottom has potatoes and radishes. By the time you finish the top, the bottom layer is cooked perfectly. It tastes great.
Address: Northeast corner of the intersection of Nanxiao Street and Qingzhen Lane
3. Jinmai Bakery
This is a chain store where you can order delicious cakes. Because the cream is whipped fresh to order, you have to wait an hour. A 14-inch cake costs a little over 100 yuan. They also have many pastries like egg tarts, cream puffs, and wife cakes (laopobing), which are all cheap and tasty.
Address: Jinniu Residential Area Branch, No. 22 Beixiao Street, Chengdong District
4. Dazhong Steamed Buns
This is a famous, long-standing shop that has been open for decades and is very popular. I often come here for breakfast. They have steamed buns (baozi) with potato filling and chive filling. The buns have thin skins and lots of filling. Pair them with a bowl of starch noodle soup (fen tang), and it is delicious.
5. Qingzhen Niububi Hot Pot
A halal hot pot chain from Chengdu has opened in Xining. My Salar brothers invited me to try it. We ordered the mild spicy version, but it did not feel spicy at all. Although the chili peppers in Qinghai are red, they are low in heat and are mainly used for color and aroma. The environment here is much more spacious than the Chengdu branch.
Address: Room 81-51, Building 2, No. 81 Shengli Road
6. Zhenxiang Porridge
Eating beef and lamb as a staple every day in Xining makes you crave something light occasionally. Beijing really lacks a halal porridge shop like this. They have various flavors of porridge and Cantonese-style snacks. I have eaten at Xiapo Porridge and Pancake Shop in Xiamen, and I hope these porridge shops can open branches in Beijing soon.
Address: No. 44-4 Nandajie (next to Fengfan Bar)
7. Qingzhen Jincai Hot Pot City
There are many hot pot restaurants in Xining. This one is quite large and the ingredients are fresh. Eating lamb in Xining is a treat because it has very little gamey smell. I ordered a specialty snack called dog-pissing-on-the-wall pancake (goujiaoniao). It is a thin pancake with oil poured over it, which looks like a dog urinating.
Address: No. 66, Xinqian International Plaza, Xiadu Avenue
8. Delu Yogurt Shop
I visited Xining twice and made sure to go to Mojia Street to taste the yogurt at Delu, a long-established shop. Qinghai yogurt has a unique flavor with a layer of yellow milk skin (naipizi) on top. You do not need to add extra sugar, and it tastes neither sour nor greasy, with a smooth texture.
Address: Mojia Street
9. Hasan Ice Cream Shop
The girl selling Hasan ice cream is exceptionally beautiful, like a beauty of the ice cream world. I praised her on Weibo and her family saw it, telling me she is already married (giggle). There are so many beautiful women from ethnic minorities in the east of Xining city. They know how to dress, and they are thin, fair-skinned, and have big eyes, making them a beautiful sight.
Address: Mojia Street
11. Baituo Halal Yak Hot Pot
To eat authentic halal yak hot pot, you must come to Xining. Although Lhasa also has yak hot pot, the altitude in Lhasa is higher, so the water does not boil well, which affects the texture of the meat when you cook it. You can also try Tibetan goat meat here. Yak meat is a bit tough, so I suggest pairing it with lamb and fatty beef.
Address: 2nd Floor, Building 1, Huheng Building, 67 Dongguan Street
12. Mazhong Food Court
Mazhong Food Court at 1 Mojia Street is the place most visitors go to, similar to the snack street at Wangfujing in Beijing. You must eat hand-grabbed meat (shouzhuarou). There are many places to eat it in Xining. Qinghai lamb is fresh and tender; I could not even smell any gamey odor while standing in front of the meat stall. Eat the hand-grabbed meat with raw garlic and pair it with a bottle of Qinghai yogurt for a balanced and satisfying meal.
Address: 1 Mojia Street
13. Kamila Tea Restaurant
There are many halal tea restaurants in Xining, perfect for dates, matchmaking, and drinking tea. People here really know how to enjoy life, spending an entire afternoon with a covered tea bowl (gaiwan).
Address: 2nd Floor, Yonghe Building, Xiguan Street
14. Jingxifeng Halal Restaurant
Xining Jingxifeng Halal Restaurant is the largest halal restaurant I have ever seen. It was built by turning an ecological park into a restaurant. Walking through the restaurant is like walking through a park, and there is even an artificial lake. The environment is beautiful and suitable for wedding banquets and wedding photos. The meal standard is only over 1,000 yuan per table, but People say there are even larger halal restaurants in Xining.
Address: Bayi Road, Chengdong District
15. Xinqian Lijing Sky Garden Halal Restaurant
This is a tropical rainforest-style halal restaurant. During the Spring Festival, there are newlyweds holding weddings here every day. The meal standard is also over 1,000 yuan, with an additional 3,000 yuan venue fee. I am amazed at how many high-end restaurants Hui Muslims in Xining can choose from for weddings, with both great environments and food.
Address: 66 Jianguo Street
Summary: A real Muslim food map for Xining, Qinghai, covering halal baozi (steamed buns), beef hotpot, bakeries, local restaurants, and the original address and photo details from the Chinese article.
Nearly half of the restaurants in Xining are halal, and these halal spots do not serve alcohol. Decent restaurants even have prayer rooms. There are so many delicious choices in Xining that it is unrealistic to try them all, so I will just recommend the ones I have visited.
1. Turkish Mediterranean Restaurant
There is a very clear Turkish sign hanging outside the Xinqian building. You can take the elevator directly to the restaurant on the third floor. Once you enter, a server will lead you to a small private room. This is a feature of halal restaurants in Xining; the tables are in small partitioned areas, and when you pull the curtain, you have a private space to chat. I recommend the steak and desserts here.
Address: 3rd Floor, Xinqian International, Xiadu Avenue
2. Yifan Restaurant
As soon as you walk in, you see a prayer room and a place for wudu (small ablution). All kinds of facilities are available, which is very common in Xining.
You need to pay extra for napkins in Xining restaurants.
This was my first time eating Qinghai clay pot hot pot (tu huoguo). A huge pot like this only costs a little over 100 yuan. The top is covered with lamb, which is already cooked when served. The middle layer has glass noodles and lettuce, and the bottom has potatoes and radishes. By the time you finish the top, the bottom layer is cooked perfectly. It tastes great.
Address: Northeast corner of the intersection of Nanxiao Street and Qingzhen Lane
3. Jinmai Bakery
This is a chain store where you can order delicious cakes. Because the cream is whipped fresh to order, you have to wait an hour. A 14-inch cake costs a little over 100 yuan. They also have many pastries like egg tarts, cream puffs, and wife cakes (laopobing), which are all cheap and tasty.
Address: Jinniu Residential Area Branch, No. 22 Beixiao Street, Chengdong District
4. Dazhong Steamed Buns
This is a famous, long-standing shop that has been open for decades and is very popular. I often come here for breakfast. They have steamed buns (baozi) with potato filling and chive filling. The buns have thin skins and lots of filling. Pair them with a bowl of starch noodle soup (fen tang), and it is delicious.
5. Qingzhen Niububi Hot Pot
A halal hot pot chain from Chengdu has opened in Xining. My Salar brothers invited me to try it. We ordered the mild spicy version, but it did not feel spicy at all. Although the chili peppers in Qinghai are red, they are low in heat and are mainly used for color and aroma. The environment here is much more spacious than the Chengdu branch.
Address: Room 81-51, Building 2, No. 81 Shengli Road
6. Zhenxiang Porridge
Eating beef and lamb as a staple every day in Xining makes you crave something light occasionally. Beijing really lacks a halal porridge shop like this. They have various flavors of porridge and Cantonese-style snacks. I have eaten at Xiapo Porridge and Pancake Shop in Xiamen, and I hope these porridge shops can open branches in Beijing soon.
Address: No. 44-4 Nandajie (next to Fengfan Bar)
7. Qingzhen Jincai Hot Pot City
There are many hot pot restaurants in Xining. This one is quite large and the ingredients are fresh. Eating lamb in Xining is a treat because it has very little gamey smell. I ordered a specialty snack called dog-pissing-on-the-wall pancake (goujiaoniao). It is a thin pancake with oil poured over it, which looks like a dog urinating.
Address: No. 66, Xinqian International Plaza, Xiadu Avenue
8. Delu Yogurt Shop
I visited Xining twice and made sure to go to Mojia Street to taste the yogurt at Delu, a long-established shop. Qinghai yogurt has a unique flavor with a layer of yellow milk skin (naipizi) on top. You do not need to add extra sugar, and it tastes neither sour nor greasy, with a smooth texture.
Address: Mojia Street
9. Hasan Ice Cream Shop
The girl selling Hasan ice cream is exceptionally beautiful, like a beauty of the ice cream world. I praised her on Weibo and her family saw it, telling me she is already married (giggle). There are so many beautiful women from ethnic minorities in the east of Xining city. They know how to dress, and they are thin, fair-skinned, and have big eyes, making them a beautiful sight.
Address: Mojia Street
11. Baituo Halal Yak Hot Pot
To eat authentic halal yak hot pot, you must come to Xining. Although Lhasa also has yak hot pot, the altitude in Lhasa is higher, so the water does not boil well, which affects the texture of the meat when you cook it. You can also try Tibetan goat meat here. Yak meat is a bit tough, so I suggest pairing it with lamb and fatty beef.
Address: 2nd Floor, Building 1, Huheng Building, 67 Dongguan Street
12. Mazhong Food Court
Mazhong Food Court at 1 Mojia Street is the place most visitors go to, similar to the snack street at Wangfujing in Beijing. You must eat hand-grabbed meat (shouzhuarou). There are many places to eat it in Xining. Qinghai lamb is fresh and tender; I could not even smell any gamey odor while standing in front of the meat stall. Eat the hand-grabbed meat with raw garlic and pair it with a bottle of Qinghai yogurt for a balanced and satisfying meal.
Address: 1 Mojia Street
13. Kamila Tea Restaurant
There are many halal tea restaurants in Xining, perfect for dates, matchmaking, and drinking tea. People here really know how to enjoy life, spending an entire afternoon with a covered tea bowl (gaiwan).
Address: 2nd Floor, Yonghe Building, Xiguan Street
14. Jingxifeng Halal Restaurant
Xining Jingxifeng Halal Restaurant is the largest halal restaurant I have ever seen. It was built by turning an ecological park into a restaurant. Walking through the restaurant is like walking through a park, and there is even an artificial lake. The environment is beautiful and suitable for wedding banquets and wedding photos. The meal standard is only over 1,000 yuan per table, but People say there are even larger halal restaurants in Xining.
Address: Bayi Road, Chengdong District
15. Xinqian Lijing Sky Garden Halal Restaurant
This is a tropical rainforest-style halal restaurant. During the Spring Festival, there are newlyweds holding weddings here every day. The meal standard is also over 1,000 yuan, with an additional 3,000 yuan venue fee. I am amazed at how many high-end restaurants Hui Muslims in Xining can choose from for weddings, with both great environments and food.
Address: 66 Jianguo Street
Best Halal Food Tianjin: Pizza, Charcoal BBQ, Western Dining, Haishiwan Seafood and Muslim Snacks
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Summary: This Tianjin halal food map part 5 covers Alishu Pizza and Pasta, Yanchunlou Restaurant, Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ, AINY Western Casual Dining, Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant, Haishiwan Restaurant, desserts, seafood, and family-style Western halal dining.
This is the fifth installment of my Tianjin halal food map. It covers six restaurants I visited while traveling back and forth to Tianjin five times recently.
The halal restaurants in Tianjin I visited this time are:
1. Alishu Pizza and Pasta
2. Yanchunlou Restaurant
3. Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ
4. AINY Western Casual Dining
5. Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant
6. Haishiwan Restaurant
1. Alishu Pizza and Pasta
Tianjin has many small, family-run Western restaurants like this. They are usually located near residential neighborhoods and offer great value. None of the small Western restaurants I visited sell alcohol. The owners are all locals from Tianjin. It is strange that Beijing does not have any similar restaurants.
When I am in Malaysia, I often take my children to Western restaurants for pasta. Kids seem to love pasta and french fries.
This shop serves baked beef rice with cheese and pizza, costing about 30 yuan per serving.
Two people can eat until they are full for about 100 yuan. People say this shop used to have several branches, but this is the only one left.
2. Yanchunlou Restaurant
Some internet users called this the best halal restaurant in Tianjin, so we made a special trip to try it while passing through the city.
The restaurant has a fancy atmosphere and displays many collectibles inside.
Many people come here because of its reputation, so you have to wait in line for a table.
We tried the traditional stir-stir-fried meat liver and kidney (bao liang yang), braised oxtail, and shrimp with gluten. The taste was just okay and quite ordinary. It was not as amazing as people said online and fell short compared to Hongbinlou. However, the price is reasonable at about 150 yuan per person.
3. Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ
This shop was a surprise. I came here because my classmate was having a baby at a nearby maternity center, and we just picked the closest place. I did not expect it to be so good.
This place is a great value. Two people can eat plenty of meat for less than 200 yuan.
I highly recommend the rice mixed in a basin. It costs just over ten yuan, and the rice grains are distinct, which is the texture I like.
4. AINY Western Casual Dining
This small shop is a lot like the first one. It is even smaller, but it has been open for nearly 10 years.
They even write their menu by hand.
Two people can share a seafood pizza, a black pepper pasta, and a large order of fries for about 100 yuan. It tastes pretty good.
5. Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant
Muyi and Nuobona Western Restaurant are two restaurants with different styles run by the same owner. They are both in the same building. Muyi is a Chinese restaurant, and Nuobona is a Western restaurant.
We tried the Nuobona Western Restaurant this time. The food and the atmosphere were great. People say their Chinese food is also very delicious.
The best thing about Nuobona is the fireplace they use to bake pizzas. The pizza that comes out of it smells amazing.
I tried the famous French dish of baked snails (escargot) for the first time. It tasted quite good, just like eating sea snails.
Even though the food and the environment are quite fancy, the prices are not high. You can eat for about 100 yuan per person. Prices in Tianjin are generally lower than in Beijing.
6. Haishiwan Restaurant
We found this Western restaurant based on online reviews.
We ordered a wide variety of dishes here and tried almost all their signature items. However, the taste does not compare to Nuobona. This is a budget-friendly Western restaurant. It is definitely much cheaper than other places, costing only about 50 yuan per person, so you cannot expect too much from the flavor.
Still, their dishes look great in photos.
This huge cup of dessert was so sugary and rich that everyone could only manage one small bite before they were full. view all
Summary: This Tianjin halal food map part 5 covers Alishu Pizza and Pasta, Yanchunlou Restaurant, Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ, AINY Western Casual Dining, Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant, Haishiwan Restaurant, desserts, seafood, and family-style Western halal dining.
This is the fifth installment of my Tianjin halal food map. It covers six restaurants I visited while traveling back and forth to Tianjin five times recently.
The halal restaurants in Tianjin I visited this time are:
1. Alishu Pizza and Pasta
2. Yanchunlou Restaurant
3. Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ
4. AINY Western Casual Dining
5. Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant
6. Haishiwan Restaurant
1. Alishu Pizza and Pasta
Tianjin has many small, family-run Western restaurants like this. They are usually located near residential neighborhoods and offer great value. None of the small Western restaurants I visited sell alcohol. The owners are all locals from Tianjin. It is strange that Beijing does not have any similar restaurants.
When I am in Malaysia, I often take my children to Western restaurants for pasta. Kids seem to love pasta and french fries.
This shop serves baked beef rice with cheese and pizza, costing about 30 yuan per serving.
Two people can eat until they are full for about 100 yuan. People say this shop used to have several branches, but this is the only one left.
2. Yanchunlou Restaurant
Some internet users called this the best halal restaurant in Tianjin, so we made a special trip to try it while passing through the city.
The restaurant has a fancy atmosphere and displays many collectibles inside.
Many people come here because of its reputation, so you have to wait in line for a table.
We tried the traditional stir-stir-fried meat liver and kidney (bao liang yang), braised oxtail, and shrimp with gluten. The taste was just okay and quite ordinary. It was not as amazing as people said online and fell short compared to Hongbinlou. However, the price is reasonable at about 150 yuan per person.
3. Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ
This shop was a surprise. I came here because my classmate was having a baby at a nearby maternity center, and we just picked the closest place. I did not expect it to be so good.
This place is a great value. Two people can eat plenty of meat for less than 200 yuan.
I highly recommend the rice mixed in a basin. It costs just over ten yuan, and the rice grains are distinct, which is the texture I like.
4. AINY Western Casual Dining
This small shop is a lot like the first one. It is even smaller, but it has been open for nearly 10 years.
They even write their menu by hand.
Two people can share a seafood pizza, a black pepper pasta, and a large order of fries for about 100 yuan. It tastes pretty good.
5. Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant
Muyi and Nuobona Western Restaurant are two restaurants with different styles run by the same owner. They are both in the same building. Muyi is a Chinese restaurant, and Nuobona is a Western restaurant.
We tried the Nuobona Western Restaurant this time. The food and the atmosphere were great. People say their Chinese food is also very delicious.
The best thing about Nuobona is the fireplace they use to bake pizzas. The pizza that comes out of it smells amazing.
I tried the famous French dish of baked snails (escargot) for the first time. It tasted quite good, just like eating sea snails.
Even though the food and the environment are quite fancy, the prices are not high. You can eat for about 100 yuan per person. Prices in Tianjin are generally lower than in Beijing.
6. Haishiwan Restaurant
We found this Western restaurant based on online reviews.
We ordered a wide variety of dishes here and tried almost all their signature items. However, the taste does not compare to Nuobona. This is a budget-friendly Western restaurant. It is definitely much cheaper than other places, costing only about 50 yuan per person, so you cannot expect too much from the flavor.
Still, their dishes look great in photos.
This huge cup of dessert was so sugary and rich that everyone could only manage one small bite before they were full. view all
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Summary: This Tianjin halal food map part 5 covers Alishu Pizza and Pasta, Yanchunlou Restaurant, Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ, AINY Western Casual Dining, Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant, Haishiwan Restaurant, desserts, seafood, and family-style Western halal dining.
This is the fifth installment of my Tianjin halal food map. It covers six restaurants I visited while traveling back and forth to Tianjin five times recently.
The halal restaurants in Tianjin I visited this time are:
1. Alishu Pizza and Pasta
2. Yanchunlou Restaurant
3. Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ
4. AINY Western Casual Dining
5. Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant
6. Haishiwan Restaurant
1. Alishu Pizza and Pasta
Tianjin has many small, family-run Western restaurants like this. They are usually located near residential neighborhoods and offer great value. None of the small Western restaurants I visited sell alcohol. The owners are all locals from Tianjin. It is strange that Beijing does not have any similar restaurants.
When I am in Malaysia, I often take my children to Western restaurants for pasta. Kids seem to love pasta and french fries.
This shop serves baked beef rice with cheese and pizza, costing about 30 yuan per serving.
Two people can eat until they are full for about 100 yuan. People say this shop used to have several branches, but this is the only one left.
2. Yanchunlou Restaurant
Some internet users called this the best halal restaurant in Tianjin, so we made a special trip to try it while passing through the city.
The restaurant has a fancy atmosphere and displays many collectibles inside.
Many people come here because of its reputation, so you have to wait in line for a table.
We tried the traditional stir-stir-fried meat liver and kidney (bao liang yang), braised oxtail, and shrimp with gluten. The taste was just okay and quite ordinary. It was not as amazing as people said online and fell short compared to Hongbinlou. However, the price is reasonable at about 150 yuan per person.
3. Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ
This shop was a surprise. I came here because my classmate was having a baby at a nearby maternity center, and we just picked the closest place. I did not expect it to be so good.
This place is a great value. Two people can eat plenty of meat for less than 200 yuan.
I highly recommend the rice mixed in a basin. It costs just over ten yuan, and the rice grains are distinct, which is the texture I like.
4. AINY Western Casual Dining
This small shop is a lot like the first one. It is even smaller, but it has been open for nearly 10 years.
They even write their menu by hand.
Two people can share a seafood pizza, a black pepper pasta, and a large order of fries for about 100 yuan. It tastes pretty good.
5. Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant
Muyi and Nuobona Western Restaurant are two restaurants with different styles run by the same owner. They are both in the same building. Muyi is a Chinese restaurant, and Nuobona is a Western restaurant.
We tried the Nuobona Western Restaurant this time. The food and the atmosphere were great. People say their Chinese food is also very delicious.
The best thing about Nuobona is the fireplace they use to bake pizzas. The pizza that comes out of it smells amazing.
I tried the famous French dish of baked snails (escargot) for the first time. It tasted quite good, just like eating sea snails.
Even though the food and the environment are quite fancy, the prices are not high. You can eat for about 100 yuan per person. Prices in Tianjin are generally lower than in Beijing.
6. Haishiwan Restaurant
We found this Western restaurant based on online reviews.
We ordered a wide variety of dishes here and tried almost all their signature items. However, the taste does not compare to Nuobona. This is a budget-friendly Western restaurant. It is definitely much cheaper than other places, costing only about 50 yuan per person, so you cannot expect too much from the flavor.
Still, their dishes look great in photos.
This huge cup of dessert was so sugary and rich that everyone could only manage one small bite before they were full.
Summary: This Tianjin halal food map part 5 covers Alishu Pizza and Pasta, Yanchunlou Restaurant, Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ, AINY Western Casual Dining, Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant, Haishiwan Restaurant, desserts, seafood, and family-style Western halal dining.
This is the fifth installment of my Tianjin halal food map. It covers six restaurants I visited while traveling back and forth to Tianjin five times recently.
The halal restaurants in Tianjin I visited this time are:
1. Alishu Pizza and Pasta
2. Yanchunlou Restaurant
3. Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ
4. AINY Western Casual Dining
5. Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant
6. Haishiwan Restaurant
1. Alishu Pizza and Pasta
Tianjin has many small, family-run Western restaurants like this. They are usually located near residential neighborhoods and offer great value. None of the small Western restaurants I visited sell alcohol. The owners are all locals from Tianjin. It is strange that Beijing does not have any similar restaurants.
When I am in Malaysia, I often take my children to Western restaurants for pasta. Kids seem to love pasta and french fries.
This shop serves baked beef rice with cheese and pizza, costing about 30 yuan per serving.
Two people can eat until they are full for about 100 yuan. People say this shop used to have several branches, but this is the only one left.
2. Yanchunlou Restaurant
Some internet users called this the best halal restaurant in Tianjin, so we made a special trip to try it while passing through the city.
The restaurant has a fancy atmosphere and displays many collectibles inside.
Many people come here because of its reputation, so you have to wait in line for a table.
We tried the traditional stir-stir-fried meat liver and kidney (bao liang yang), braised oxtail, and shrimp with gluten. The taste was just okay and quite ordinary. It was not as amazing as people said online and fell short compared to Hongbinlou. However, the price is reasonable at about 150 yuan per person.
3. Chengcheng Charcoal BBQ
This shop was a surprise. I came here because my classmate was having a baby at a nearby maternity center, and we just picked the closest place. I did not expect it to be so good.
This place is a great value. Two people can eat plenty of meat for less than 200 yuan.
I highly recommend the rice mixed in a basin. It costs just over ten yuan, and the rice grains are distinct, which is the texture I like.
4. AINY Western Casual Dining
This small shop is a lot like the first one. It is even smaller, but it has been open for nearly 10 years.
They even write their menu by hand.
Two people can share a seafood pizza, a black pepper pasta, and a large order of fries for about 100 yuan. It tastes pretty good.
5. Muyi Nuobona Western Restaurant
Muyi and Nuobona Western Restaurant are two restaurants with different styles run by the same owner. They are both in the same building. Muyi is a Chinese restaurant, and Nuobona is a Western restaurant.
We tried the Nuobona Western Restaurant this time. The food and the atmosphere were great. People say their Chinese food is also very delicious.
The best thing about Nuobona is the fireplace they use to bake pizzas. The pizza that comes out of it smells amazing.
I tried the famous French dish of baked snails (escargot) for the first time. It tasted quite good, just like eating sea snails.
Even though the food and the environment are quite fancy, the prices are not high. You can eat for about 100 yuan per person. Prices in Tianjin are generally lower than in Beijing.
6. Haishiwan Restaurant
We found this Western restaurant based on online reviews.
We ordered a wide variety of dishes here and tried almost all their signature items. However, the taste does not compare to Nuobona. This is a budget-friendly Western restaurant. It is definitely much cheaper than other places, costing only about 50 yuan per person, so you cannot expect too much from the flavor.
Still, their dishes look great in photos.
This huge cup of dessert was so sugary and rich that everyone could only manage one small bite before they were full.
Best Halal Food Beijing: Iranian Food, African Cuisine, Hot Pot, Peking Duck and Shabu-Shabu
Articles • yusuf908 posted the article • 0 comments • 92 views • 2026-05-23 06:09
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Summary: This Beijing halal food guide covers the middle part of the 2024 must-eat list, including Azerbaijani dumplings, Iranian food, Ghanaian and West African cuisine, halal Peking duck, shabu-shabu, Yunnan flavors, hot pot, and halal Chaoshan beef hot pot.
Caucasian soup dumplings (gaojiaosuotangbao)
These are Azerbaijani soup dumplings. The owner is from Azerbaijan, so most of the servers are too. Their Chinese isn't great, but it has improved over the last few years.
15. Iranian Cuisine
It used to be called Persepolis, but now it is named Iranian Cuisine. The cooking style hasn't changed, but I think it tastes better now than before. This is the only Iranian restaurant in Beijing, excluding the one inside the Iranian embassy.
I like this spot in their courtyard; it is a typical Iranian residential style.
Saffron pilaf (zanghonghuazhuafan)
I have been here many times. They have a buffet at lunch, and for dinner, they serve Western food like grilled meat and burgers, plus coffee and afternoon tea.
16. TRIBE GARDEN African Tribe Garden Restaurant
A new halal restaurant featuring West African specialties recently opened on the first basement level of the Sanlitun SOHO mall, focusing on Ghanaian cuisine. The staff are all Black Muslims who speak fluent Chinese, and one young lady from Kenya is especially lovely.
Ghana is a country in West Africa where about 15% of the population is Muslim, yet their national banknote features a picture of a mosque with a unique style.
Larabanga Mosque
The Larabanga Mosque (Larabanga Mosque) on the banknote was built between the 14th and 15th centuries. It is the oldest mosque in Ghana. Its architectural style is unique to West Africa, built with yellow mud and wood, making it very iconic.
The restaurant decor also has a strong African feel, including the wall hangings.
African goat meat mixed rice
African goat meat is a bit tough, but it has no gamey smell. The mixed rice tastes salty and spicy.
Non-alcoholic mojito and fruit punch
African specialty egusi (egusi)
This dish is meant to be eaten mixed with the cassava flour paste shown in the picture below. Eating the cassava flour paste is just like eating rice cake.
Fufu (fufu)
The white one is called fufu, which translates to rice flour paste in Chinese. It is the staple food for Ghanaians.
Friday special dish
They have a special dish every day. This Friday special is made with beans and rice, served with some noodles and dipping sauce. It tastes sour, salty, and spicy all at once.
Grilled tilapia
This is African-style grilled fish. It tastes great. Don't let the charred skin fool you; the meat inside is white.
A young lady from Kenya recommended this milkshake to us. It is very creamy and delicious. The total for this meal was 530 yuan for four people, which comes to 130 yuan per person.
17. Rongqing Laoman Guizhou Sour Soup Fish Hot Pot
This Guizhou sour soup hot pot restaurant changed its style and is the only halal Guizhou restaurant in Beijing. Their signature dishes are beef hot pot and fish hot pot. When we visited, the business was already starting to take off, and I hear there are long lines now, with an average wait time of over an hour.
The owner originally planned to serve Guizhou-style stir-fried dishes, but the hot pot business became so popular that they stopped making stir-fries. Now, they only serve hot pot.
We had three glasses of homemade prickly pear juice (cili zhi). It was sweet, sour, and icy cold. They only had three of these glasses, so we took them all, and other customers had to order different drinks.
The dipping sauce (zhanshui) is the soul of the meal. I suggest following the guide posted by the shop to mix your sauce. You must try the litsea cubeba oil (mujiangzi you), mint leaves, chili powder (hu lajiao mian), and fish mint (zhe'ergen).
The full beef feast set includes beef and various beef offal. The ingredients are very fresh. If you like fish, choose the river catfish (jiangtuan). One fish weighs about 1.15 kilograms, and the meat is firm with no small bones.
If you save the shop on your map and check in, you get free iced jelly (bingfen). The jelly is just okay, but the signature beef and fish hot pot are worth a try.
18. Xunji Tan Sheep Hot Pot
Xunji is a chain restaurant. There is one in Gulou and another one in Qingnian Road. The two shops have very different decor, but both are high-end and elegant. The Qingnian Road location has a particularly fresh and unique atmosphere. It is much larger than the Gulou shop and has plenty of free parking.
When you enter the courtyard, you first walk through a bamboo grove. Mist floats along both sides of the path, making it feel like a fairyland.
The courtyard is filled with flowers and green plants, including many brightly colored hydrangeas.
The courtyard has open-air seating and tented private rooms. Each tent is equipped with air conditioning, lights, and a sound system.
There is an indoor dining hall, but in the summer, everyone prefers to sit in the courtyard to enjoy the flowers and food.
The dining tables in the tented rooms have microphones. If you speak near the table, you can hear an echo, which makes chatting easier.
This restaurant is a top-tier halal establishment in Beijing. The average cost per person is between 400 and 500 yuan. The restaurant charges per head and currently only serves hot pot. They can host wedding banquets for about 150 people. Wedding banquets are also charged per head, so a wedding for 100 people costs only 50,000 to 60,000 yuan, which is very affordable for Beijing.
Xunji Gulou Courtyard has a different, classical style. You can sit on the terrace and eat hot pot with the Drum Tower behind you.
At sunset, the scene of eating hot pot with the Drum Tower in the background is stunning. Oriental Selection even came here to host a live stream.
All ingredients are fresh and high-quality. You just wait for the servers to bring the dishes in order. Each private room has a dedicated server to provide attentive service. The dishes are served in this order: drinks, cold appetizers, hot pot ingredients, staples, and dessert. You can order extra portions of anything you like without extra charges. It is like paying 300 to 500 yuan for a high-end buffet, so it is not expensive.
19. Baoding beef covered pancake (niurou zhaobing)
I once drove all the way to Miyun just to eat halal covered pancake (zhaobing). When I heard a halal zhaobing shop opened in Baiziwan, I came to try it. The taste is even better than the one in Miyun. Now, this shop has also opened a branch in Daxing.
One cover two means one liang of meat and two liang of flatbread. I chose the single set meal of one cover three, which is two liang of beef and three liang of flatbread. The shop just opened and they are still hiring staff. They only serve covered flatbread (zhaobing) and braised chicken (luzhuji), which is also a specialty of Baoding.
I have eaten covered flatbread in Baoding, and the taste is basically the same as this place.
20. Azerbaijan National Pavilion Maiden Tower Restaurant
A new restaurant opened on the third floor of the Azerbaijan National Pavilion. It is named after the Maiden Tower, which is a tourist attraction in Azerbaijan. This is the only halal Azerbaijani restaurant in Beijing, so it is worth noting.
The restaurant is inside the pavilion, so you can enjoy Azerbaijani folk handicrafts while you eat.
Many Azerbaijani chefs work abroad. Many of the Turkish restaurants we often eat at are actually run by Azerbaijanis.
The dishes here suit our tastes well, including these snacks, which are also good for babies to eat.
Creamy eggplant rolls (xiangnai qiezijuan)
Jeliteme roast chicken (jeliteme kaoji)
Beef rice with chestnut and pomegranate sauce (lizi shiliujiang niuroufan)
Nut cake
The restaurant is near Sanyuanqiao. It costs about 150 yuan per person. It is good for business dinners and dates.
21. Alkhaleej Mandi Kitchen
This is a newly opened Dubai halal restaurant in Sanlitun. The owner is an Arab from Dubai and has another shop there. The staff said the ingredients are imported from the Middle East. After eating here, I can say that is true. It reminds me of the mandi I ate in Makkah last year. It is a perfect recreation of Middle Eastern flavors.
This is a non-alcoholic restaurant. I worry about whether it can stay open for a long time because the owner is spending a lot of money, but the Beijing restaurant market is slow this year. Even in Sanlitun on the weekend, there are not many people.
You can smell the familiar scent of agarwood in the shop.
The small cup of Arabic milk tea the waiter brought tastes exactly like the one I had in Abu Dhabi.
The handmade Yemeni flatbread (khubz) comes with various dips and is delicious. The chefs are all Arabs from the Middle East.
Desert colorful chicken mandi
The special handmade Yemeni flatbread is very tasty, has a strong wheat aroma, and is very large.
Royal pastry, it has a texture like sticky rice and contains banana. This dessert is not sweet at all.
Lamb mandi
Grilled fish served with rice. The fish itself has no flavor, so you need to eat it with three different dipping sauces.
The mandi is amazing. The chicken inside is stewed until it is extremely soft and tender, and the rice gets its color from added spices.
22. Stinky Star Snail Rice Noodle (luosifen) Hot Pot
This halal snail rice noodle shop is on the ground floor of the Golden Street in the West District of Tongzhou Wanda Plaza. The owner is a Hui Muslim from Changchun who used to work at iQIYI before opening this physical shop. The small shop has two floors and mainly serves halal snail rice noodles and clam (huajia) noodle hot pots.
The snail rice noodle hot pot comes with a wide variety of ingredients that you can add to the pot to cook together.
Halal snail rice noodles are rare, but you can find them at the halal canteen of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. However, you need a student or teacher from inside to guide you in. If you don't have any connections, just come to Tongzhou Wanda.
This hot pot set for two costs 78 yuan and is enough for two or three people to eat.
The set comes with Guangxi cassava sweet soup.
Add all the side dishes to the pot and cook for 1 minute to start eating. The taste is quite authentic.
23. Fanshen Lobster Restaurant
A newly opened crayfish restaurant in Baiziwan. The owner is from Langfang, and it is currently only open for dinner until the early morning.
You can eat aquatic products like crayfish. For details, you can check my previous article, How does the Hanafi school view shrimp? They also serve local specialties from Cangzhou, Hebei, like hot pot chicken (huoguo ji) and spicy crab (xiangla xie).
The restaurant has a great atmosphere with plenty of space and wide gaps between tables. There is a large private courtyard at the entrance that serves as a free parking lot.
Write a review, save the shop, and check in to get a free glass of fresh-squeezed juice.
The most popular dish is the garlic crawfish. You can really taste how fresh the shrimp is. The golden sauce from the crawfish is great for dipping the hand-torn flatbread (shoushibing), which is freshly griddled and tastes excellent.
The grilled squid is also delicious. Their ingredients are definitely fresh.
The spicy beef tripe (chanzui niudu) has a numbing and spicy flavor that is very good. Overall, this place has the potential to become a viral restaurant thanks to its service, environment, and taste. It is a bit pricey, with an average cost of over 200 yuan per person.
24. Maimaihong Beef Sliced Noodles
Don't underestimate this noodle shop. I will drive 40 minutes from Niujie to Haidian just for a bowl of these noodles. Maimaihong's beef sliced noodles (daoxiao mian) are definitely worth a visit. If you like this style, you won't be disappointed.
The shop is run by Hui Muslims from Jiaozuo, Henan. Their cold dishes are a specialty, and if you come for breakfast, you can have spicy soup (hulatang) in the Xiaoyao Town style, but with less spice to suit Beijing tastes.
Another specialty is their beef steamed buns (niurou baozi). These aren't pan-fried, but the large steamed kind, which you can also get in the morning.
I had a bowl of the deluxe beef sliced noodles. They give you plenty of meat, the broth is rich, the beef is tender, and the noodles are chewy.
For the cold dishes, you pick what you want, and they take it to the kitchen to add seasoning and mix it, which keeps everything fresh and tasty.
25. Hulun Aile Halal Hand-held Meat (shouba rou)
This shop used to be a hot pot place, but it recently changed into a Mongolian restaurant. The change was very successful.
They get their beef and lamb from Hulunbuir. The meat quality from the Inner Mongolian grasslands is excellent.
What drew us here was their afternoon tea with Inner Mongolian flair.
The milk tea comes with a plate of dairy products. This combination is truly tempting.
The Mongolian-style milk tea contains roasted millet (chaomi) and is served in a thermos to keep it warm.
For the hand-held beef steak (shouba niupai), you cut a piece with a small knife and spread chive flower sauce (jiucaihua) on it. It is delicious, and their three types of dipping sauces are all very authentic.
Buryat steamed buns (Buliya baozi) look like the thin-skinned buns from Xinjiang, but the dough is slightly thicker. They are filled with large chunks of lamb, full of broth, and taste great.
This is the most popular afternoon tea dairy platter of the day. The white part on top is cream, which you eat with the dairy products. The four cups contain concentrated milk; it tastes like ice bock (bingboke), which is milk concentrated by evaporating most of the water.
The Inner Mongolian milk ice cream is simple and bold. It is made of large chunks of milk ice, just like a popsicle, but no extra water is added. The texture is smooth and the milky flavor is rich. It is highly recommended. With the Mongolian food being so good, their hot pot seems plain, so I suggest you stick to the Mongolian dishes here.
26. Sanliujiu Wan Halal Beef Brisket Pot
This shop offers Cantonese-style Qingyuan chicken pot, beef brisket and offal pot, and Tianhu chicken pot, along with Cantonese dim sum. It is currently the only halal Cantonese restaurant in Beijing.
Claypot rice (baozai fan)
Claypot rice (baozai fan) is also a new dish. It must be made to order and takes 25 minutes to prepare. It uses Thai jasmine rice topped with beef sausage, and you can choose how many grams of sausage to add based on your preference.
The curry fish balls are very bouncy. The owner says he developed the recipe himself. He is a Hui Muslim from Shandong and the son of an imam.
Our group of 12 people ate through the new dim sum menu twice, and the cost was about 120 yuan per person.
After eating this Hong Kong-style dim sum, you could say there are no gaps left in Beijing's halal food scene. You can find a halal version of every major cuisine in Beijing now.
27. Zaizai Niu Chaoshan Beef Hot Pot
This newly opened Chaoshan beef hot pot place in Xiguanshi, Changping, is even better than the one in Pingle Yuan. The Yushanfang restaurant in Pingle Yuan has closed, so this is currently the only halal Chaoshan beef hot pot in Beijing.
We came at noon and it wasn't crowded. There was only one waitress, a kind lady who could help us cook the meat.
Every dish in the three-person set meal we bought was delicious. The shrimp paste gets a thumbs up, and the beef was especially fragrant. view all
Summary: This Beijing halal food guide covers the middle part of the 2024 must-eat list, including Azerbaijani dumplings, Iranian food, Ghanaian and West African cuisine, halal Peking duck, shabu-shabu, Yunnan flavors, hot pot, and halal Chaoshan beef hot pot.
Caucasian soup dumplings (gaojiaosuotangbao)
These are Azerbaijani soup dumplings. The owner is from Azerbaijan, so most of the servers are too. Their Chinese isn't great, but it has improved over the last few years.
15. Iranian Cuisine
It used to be called Persepolis, but now it is named Iranian Cuisine. The cooking style hasn't changed, but I think it tastes better now than before. This is the only Iranian restaurant in Beijing, excluding the one inside the Iranian embassy.
I like this spot in their courtyard; it is a typical Iranian residential style.
Saffron pilaf (zanghonghuazhuafan)
I have been here many times. They have a buffet at lunch, and for dinner, they serve Western food like grilled meat and burgers, plus coffee and afternoon tea.
16. TRIBE GARDEN African Tribe Garden Restaurant
A new halal restaurant featuring West African specialties recently opened on the first basement level of the Sanlitun SOHO mall, focusing on Ghanaian cuisine. The staff are all Black Muslims who speak fluent Chinese, and one young lady from Kenya is especially lovely.
Ghana is a country in West Africa where about 15% of the population is Muslim, yet their national banknote features a picture of a mosque with a unique style.
Larabanga Mosque
The Larabanga Mosque (Larabanga Mosque) on the banknote was built between the 14th and 15th centuries. It is the oldest mosque in Ghana. Its architectural style is unique to West Africa, built with yellow mud and wood, making it very iconic.
The restaurant decor also has a strong African feel, including the wall hangings.
African goat meat mixed rice
African goat meat is a bit tough, but it has no gamey smell. The mixed rice tastes salty and spicy.
Non-alcoholic mojito and fruit punch
African specialty egusi (egusi)
This dish is meant to be eaten mixed with the cassava flour paste shown in the picture below. Eating the cassava flour paste is just like eating rice cake.
Fufu (fufu)
The white one is called fufu, which translates to rice flour paste in Chinese. It is the staple food for Ghanaians.
Friday special dish
They have a special dish every day. This Friday special is made with beans and rice, served with some noodles and dipping sauce. It tastes sour, salty, and spicy all at once.
Grilled tilapia
This is African-style grilled fish. It tastes great. Don't let the charred skin fool you; the meat inside is white.
A young lady from Kenya recommended this milkshake to us. It is very creamy and delicious. The total for this meal was 530 yuan for four people, which comes to 130 yuan per person.
17. Rongqing Laoman Guizhou Sour Soup Fish Hot Pot
This Guizhou sour soup hot pot restaurant changed its style and is the only halal Guizhou restaurant in Beijing. Their signature dishes are beef hot pot and fish hot pot. When we visited, the business was already starting to take off, and I hear there are long lines now, with an average wait time of over an hour.
The owner originally planned to serve Guizhou-style stir-fried dishes, but the hot pot business became so popular that they stopped making stir-fries. Now, they only serve hot pot.
We had three glasses of homemade prickly pear juice (cili zhi). It was sweet, sour, and icy cold. They only had three of these glasses, so we took them all, and other customers had to order different drinks.
The dipping sauce (zhanshui) is the soul of the meal. I suggest following the guide posted by the shop to mix your sauce. You must try the litsea cubeba oil (mujiangzi you), mint leaves, chili powder (hu lajiao mian), and fish mint (zhe'ergen).
The full beef feast set includes beef and various beef offal. The ingredients are very fresh. If you like fish, choose the river catfish (jiangtuan). One fish weighs about 1.15 kilograms, and the meat is firm with no small bones.
If you save the shop on your map and check in, you get free iced jelly (bingfen). The jelly is just okay, but the signature beef and fish hot pot are worth a try.
18. Xunji Tan Sheep Hot Pot
Xunji is a chain restaurant. There is one in Gulou and another one in Qingnian Road. The two shops have very different decor, but both are high-end and elegant. The Qingnian Road location has a particularly fresh and unique atmosphere. It is much larger than the Gulou shop and has plenty of free parking.
When you enter the courtyard, you first walk through a bamboo grove. Mist floats along both sides of the path, making it feel like a fairyland.
The courtyard is filled with flowers and green plants, including many brightly colored hydrangeas.
The courtyard has open-air seating and tented private rooms. Each tent is equipped with air conditioning, lights, and a sound system.
There is an indoor dining hall, but in the summer, everyone prefers to sit in the courtyard to enjoy the flowers and food.
The dining tables in the tented rooms have microphones. If you speak near the table, you can hear an echo, which makes chatting easier.
This restaurant is a top-tier halal establishment in Beijing. The average cost per person is between 400 and 500 yuan. The restaurant charges per head and currently only serves hot pot. They can host wedding banquets for about 150 people. Wedding banquets are also charged per head, so a wedding for 100 people costs only 50,000 to 60,000 yuan, which is very affordable for Beijing.
Xunji Gulou Courtyard has a different, classical style. You can sit on the terrace and eat hot pot with the Drum Tower behind you.
At sunset, the scene of eating hot pot with the Drum Tower in the background is stunning. Oriental Selection even came here to host a live stream.
All ingredients are fresh and high-quality. You just wait for the servers to bring the dishes in order. Each private room has a dedicated server to provide attentive service. The dishes are served in this order: drinks, cold appetizers, hot pot ingredients, staples, and dessert. You can order extra portions of anything you like without extra charges. It is like paying 300 to 500 yuan for a high-end buffet, so it is not expensive.
19. Baoding beef covered pancake (niurou zhaobing)
I once drove all the way to Miyun just to eat halal covered pancake (zhaobing). When I heard a halal zhaobing shop opened in Baiziwan, I came to try it. The taste is even better than the one in Miyun. Now, this shop has also opened a branch in Daxing.
One cover two means one liang of meat and two liang of flatbread. I chose the single set meal of one cover three, which is two liang of beef and three liang of flatbread. The shop just opened and they are still hiring staff. They only serve covered flatbread (zhaobing) and braised chicken (luzhuji), which is also a specialty of Baoding.
I have eaten covered flatbread in Baoding, and the taste is basically the same as this place.
20. Azerbaijan National Pavilion Maiden Tower Restaurant
A new restaurant opened on the third floor of the Azerbaijan National Pavilion. It is named after the Maiden Tower, which is a tourist attraction in Azerbaijan. This is the only halal Azerbaijani restaurant in Beijing, so it is worth noting.
The restaurant is inside the pavilion, so you can enjoy Azerbaijani folk handicrafts while you eat.
Many Azerbaijani chefs work abroad. Many of the Turkish restaurants we often eat at are actually run by Azerbaijanis.
The dishes here suit our tastes well, including these snacks, which are also good for babies to eat.
Creamy eggplant rolls (xiangnai qiezijuan)
Jeliteme roast chicken (jeliteme kaoji)
Beef rice with chestnut and pomegranate sauce (lizi shiliujiang niuroufan)
Nut cake
The restaurant is near Sanyuanqiao. It costs about 150 yuan per person. It is good for business dinners and dates.
21. Alkhaleej Mandi Kitchen
This is a newly opened Dubai halal restaurant in Sanlitun. The owner is an Arab from Dubai and has another shop there. The staff said the ingredients are imported from the Middle East. After eating here, I can say that is true. It reminds me of the mandi I ate in Makkah last year. It is a perfect recreation of Middle Eastern flavors.
This is a non-alcoholic restaurant. I worry about whether it can stay open for a long time because the owner is spending a lot of money, but the Beijing restaurant market is slow this year. Even in Sanlitun on the weekend, there are not many people.
You can smell the familiar scent of agarwood in the shop.
The small cup of Arabic milk tea the waiter brought tastes exactly like the one I had in Abu Dhabi.
The handmade Yemeni flatbread (khubz) comes with various dips and is delicious. The chefs are all Arabs from the Middle East.
Desert colorful chicken mandi
The special handmade Yemeni flatbread is very tasty, has a strong wheat aroma, and is very large.
Royal pastry, it has a texture like sticky rice and contains banana. This dessert is not sweet at all.
Lamb mandi
Grilled fish served with rice. The fish itself has no flavor, so you need to eat it with three different dipping sauces.
The mandi is amazing. The chicken inside is stewed until it is extremely soft and tender, and the rice gets its color from added spices.
22. Stinky Star Snail Rice Noodle (luosifen) Hot Pot
This halal snail rice noodle shop is on the ground floor of the Golden Street in the West District of Tongzhou Wanda Plaza. The owner is a Hui Muslim from Changchun who used to work at iQIYI before opening this physical shop. The small shop has two floors and mainly serves halal snail rice noodles and clam (huajia) noodle hot pots.
The snail rice noodle hot pot comes with a wide variety of ingredients that you can add to the pot to cook together.
Halal snail rice noodles are rare, but you can find them at the halal canteen of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. However, you need a student or teacher from inside to guide you in. If you don't have any connections, just come to Tongzhou Wanda.
This hot pot set for two costs 78 yuan and is enough for two or three people to eat.
The set comes with Guangxi cassava sweet soup.
Add all the side dishes to the pot and cook for 1 minute to start eating. The taste is quite authentic.
23. Fanshen Lobster Restaurant
A newly opened crayfish restaurant in Baiziwan. The owner is from Langfang, and it is currently only open for dinner until the early morning.
You can eat aquatic products like crayfish. For details, you can check my previous article, How does the Hanafi school view shrimp? They also serve local specialties from Cangzhou, Hebei, like hot pot chicken (huoguo ji) and spicy crab (xiangla xie).
The restaurant has a great atmosphere with plenty of space and wide gaps between tables. There is a large private courtyard at the entrance that serves as a free parking lot.
Write a review, save the shop, and check in to get a free glass of fresh-squeezed juice.
The most popular dish is the garlic crawfish. You can really taste how fresh the shrimp is. The golden sauce from the crawfish is great for dipping the hand-torn flatbread (shoushibing), which is freshly griddled and tastes excellent.
The grilled squid is also delicious. Their ingredients are definitely fresh.
The spicy beef tripe (chanzui niudu) has a numbing and spicy flavor that is very good. Overall, this place has the potential to become a viral restaurant thanks to its service, environment, and taste. It is a bit pricey, with an average cost of over 200 yuan per person.
24. Maimaihong Beef Sliced Noodles
Don't underestimate this noodle shop. I will drive 40 minutes from Niujie to Haidian just for a bowl of these noodles. Maimaihong's beef sliced noodles (daoxiao mian) are definitely worth a visit. If you like this style, you won't be disappointed.
The shop is run by Hui Muslims from Jiaozuo, Henan. Their cold dishes are a specialty, and if you come for breakfast, you can have spicy soup (hulatang) in the Xiaoyao Town style, but with less spice to suit Beijing tastes.
Another specialty is their beef steamed buns (niurou baozi). These aren't pan-fried, but the large steamed kind, which you can also get in the morning.
I had a bowl of the deluxe beef sliced noodles. They give you plenty of meat, the broth is rich, the beef is tender, and the noodles are chewy.
For the cold dishes, you pick what you want, and they take it to the kitchen to add seasoning and mix it, which keeps everything fresh and tasty.
25. Hulun Aile Halal Hand-held Meat (shouba rou)
This shop used to be a hot pot place, but it recently changed into a Mongolian restaurant. The change was very successful.
They get their beef and lamb from Hulunbuir. The meat quality from the Inner Mongolian grasslands is excellent.
What drew us here was their afternoon tea with Inner Mongolian flair.
The milk tea comes with a plate of dairy products. This combination is truly tempting.
The Mongolian-style milk tea contains roasted millet (chaomi) and is served in a thermos to keep it warm.
For the hand-held beef steak (shouba niupai), you cut a piece with a small knife and spread chive flower sauce (jiucaihua) on it. It is delicious, and their three types of dipping sauces are all very authentic.
Buryat steamed buns (Buliya baozi) look like the thin-skinned buns from Xinjiang, but the dough is slightly thicker. They are filled with large chunks of lamb, full of broth, and taste great.
This is the most popular afternoon tea dairy platter of the day. The white part on top is cream, which you eat with the dairy products. The four cups contain concentrated milk; it tastes like ice bock (bingboke), which is milk concentrated by evaporating most of the water.
The Inner Mongolian milk ice cream is simple and bold. It is made of large chunks of milk ice, just like a popsicle, but no extra water is added. The texture is smooth and the milky flavor is rich. It is highly recommended. With the Mongolian food being so good, their hot pot seems plain, so I suggest you stick to the Mongolian dishes here.
26. Sanliujiu Wan Halal Beef Brisket Pot
This shop offers Cantonese-style Qingyuan chicken pot, beef brisket and offal pot, and Tianhu chicken pot, along with Cantonese dim sum. It is currently the only halal Cantonese restaurant in Beijing.
Claypot rice (baozai fan)
Claypot rice (baozai fan) is also a new dish. It must be made to order and takes 25 minutes to prepare. It uses Thai jasmine rice topped with beef sausage, and you can choose how many grams of sausage to add based on your preference.
The curry fish balls are very bouncy. The owner says he developed the recipe himself. He is a Hui Muslim from Shandong and the son of an imam.
Our group of 12 people ate through the new dim sum menu twice, and the cost was about 120 yuan per person.
After eating this Hong Kong-style dim sum, you could say there are no gaps left in Beijing's halal food scene. You can find a halal version of every major cuisine in Beijing now.
27. Zaizai Niu Chaoshan Beef Hot Pot
This newly opened Chaoshan beef hot pot place in Xiguanshi, Changping, is even better than the one in Pingle Yuan. The Yushanfang restaurant in Pingle Yuan has closed, so this is currently the only halal Chaoshan beef hot pot in Beijing.
We came at noon and it wasn't crowded. There was only one waitress, a kind lady who could help us cook the meat.
Every dish in the three-person set meal we bought was delicious. The shrimp paste gets a thumbs up, and the beef was especially fragrant. view all
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Summary: This Beijing halal food guide covers the middle part of the 2024 must-eat list, including Azerbaijani dumplings, Iranian food, Ghanaian and West African cuisine, halal Peking duck, shabu-shabu, Yunnan flavors, hot pot, and halal Chaoshan beef hot pot.
Caucasian soup dumplings (gaojiaosuotangbao)
These are Azerbaijani soup dumplings. The owner is from Azerbaijan, so most of the servers are too. Their Chinese isn't great, but it has improved over the last few years.
15. Iranian Cuisine
It used to be called Persepolis, but now it is named Iranian Cuisine. The cooking style hasn't changed, but I think it tastes better now than before. This is the only Iranian restaurant in Beijing, excluding the one inside the Iranian embassy.
I like this spot in their courtyard; it is a typical Iranian residential style.
Saffron pilaf (zanghonghuazhuafan)
I have been here many times. They have a buffet at lunch, and for dinner, they serve Western food like grilled meat and burgers, plus coffee and afternoon tea.
16. TRIBE GARDEN African Tribe Garden Restaurant
A new halal restaurant featuring West African specialties recently opened on the first basement level of the Sanlitun SOHO mall, focusing on Ghanaian cuisine. The staff are all Black Muslims who speak fluent Chinese, and one young lady from Kenya is especially lovely.
Ghana is a country in West Africa where about 15% of the population is Muslim, yet their national banknote features a picture of a mosque with a unique style.
Larabanga Mosque
The Larabanga Mosque (Larabanga Mosque) on the banknote was built between the 14th and 15th centuries. It is the oldest mosque in Ghana. Its architectural style is unique to West Africa, built with yellow mud and wood, making it very iconic.
The restaurant decor also has a strong African feel, including the wall hangings.
African goat meat mixed rice
African goat meat is a bit tough, but it has no gamey smell. The mixed rice tastes salty and spicy.
Non-alcoholic mojito and fruit punch
African specialty egusi (egusi)
This dish is meant to be eaten mixed with the cassava flour paste shown in the picture below. Eating the cassava flour paste is just like eating rice cake.
Fufu (fufu)
The white one is called fufu, which translates to rice flour paste in Chinese. It is the staple food for Ghanaians.
Friday special dish
They have a special dish every day. This Friday special is made with beans and rice, served with some noodles and dipping sauce. It tastes sour, salty, and spicy all at once.
Grilled tilapia
This is African-style grilled fish. It tastes great. Don't let the charred skin fool you; the meat inside is white.
A young lady from Kenya recommended this milkshake to us. It is very creamy and delicious. The total for this meal was 530 yuan for four people, which comes to 130 yuan per person.
17. Rongqing Laoman Guizhou Sour Soup Fish Hot Pot
This Guizhou sour soup hot pot restaurant changed its style and is the only halal Guizhou restaurant in Beijing. Their signature dishes are beef hot pot and fish hot pot. When we visited, the business was already starting to take off, and I hear there are long lines now, with an average wait time of over an hour.
The owner originally planned to serve Guizhou-style stir-fried dishes, but the hot pot business became so popular that they stopped making stir-fries. Now, they only serve hot pot.
We had three glasses of homemade prickly pear juice (cili zhi). It was sweet, sour, and icy cold. They only had three of these glasses, so we took them all, and other customers had to order different drinks.
The dipping sauce (zhanshui) is the soul of the meal. I suggest following the guide posted by the shop to mix your sauce. You must try the litsea cubeba oil (mujiangzi you), mint leaves, chili powder (hu lajiao mian), and fish mint (zhe'ergen).
The full beef feast set includes beef and various beef offal. The ingredients are very fresh. If you like fish, choose the river catfish (jiangtuan). One fish weighs about 1.15 kilograms, and the meat is firm with no small bones.
If you save the shop on your map and check in, you get free iced jelly (bingfen). The jelly is just okay, but the signature beef and fish hot pot are worth a try.
18. Xunji Tan Sheep Hot Pot
Xunji is a chain restaurant. There is one in Gulou and another one in Qingnian Road. The two shops have very different decor, but both are high-end and elegant. The Qingnian Road location has a particularly fresh and unique atmosphere. It is much larger than the Gulou shop and has plenty of free parking.
When you enter the courtyard, you first walk through a bamboo grove. Mist floats along both sides of the path, making it feel like a fairyland.
The courtyard is filled with flowers and green plants, including many brightly colored hydrangeas.
The courtyard has open-air seating and tented private rooms. Each tent is equipped with air conditioning, lights, and a sound system.
There is an indoor dining hall, but in the summer, everyone prefers to sit in the courtyard to enjoy the flowers and food.
The dining tables in the tented rooms have microphones. If you speak near the table, you can hear an echo, which makes chatting easier.
This restaurant is a top-tier halal establishment in Beijing. The average cost per person is between 400 and 500 yuan. The restaurant charges per head and currently only serves hot pot. They can host wedding banquets for about 150 people. Wedding banquets are also charged per head, so a wedding for 100 people costs only 50,000 to 60,000 yuan, which is very affordable for Beijing.
Xunji Gulou Courtyard has a different, classical style. You can sit on the terrace and eat hot pot with the Drum Tower behind you.
At sunset, the scene of eating hot pot with the Drum Tower in the background is stunning. Oriental Selection even came here to host a live stream.
All ingredients are fresh and high-quality. You just wait for the servers to bring the dishes in order. Each private room has a dedicated server to provide attentive service. The dishes are served in this order: drinks, cold appetizers, hot pot ingredients, staples, and dessert. You can order extra portions of anything you like without extra charges. It is like paying 300 to 500 yuan for a high-end buffet, so it is not expensive.
19. Baoding beef covered pancake (niurou zhaobing)
I once drove all the way to Miyun just to eat halal covered pancake (zhaobing). When I heard a halal zhaobing shop opened in Baiziwan, I came to try it. The taste is even better than the one in Miyun. Now, this shop has also opened a branch in Daxing.
One cover two means one liang of meat and two liang of flatbread. I chose the single set meal of one cover three, which is two liang of beef and three liang of flatbread. The shop just opened and they are still hiring staff. They only serve covered flatbread (zhaobing) and braised chicken (luzhuji), which is also a specialty of Baoding.
I have eaten covered flatbread in Baoding, and the taste is basically the same as this place.
20. Azerbaijan National Pavilion Maiden Tower Restaurant
A new restaurant opened on the third floor of the Azerbaijan National Pavilion. It is named after the Maiden Tower, which is a tourist attraction in Azerbaijan. This is the only halal Azerbaijani restaurant in Beijing, so it is worth noting.
The restaurant is inside the pavilion, so you can enjoy Azerbaijani folk handicrafts while you eat.
Many Azerbaijani chefs work abroad. Many of the Turkish restaurants we often eat at are actually run by Azerbaijanis.
The dishes here suit our tastes well, including these snacks, which are also good for babies to eat.
Creamy eggplant rolls (xiangnai qiezijuan)
Jeliteme roast chicken (jeliteme kaoji)
Beef rice with chestnut and pomegranate sauce (lizi shiliujiang niuroufan)
Nut cake
The restaurant is near Sanyuanqiao. It costs about 150 yuan per person. It is good for business dinners and dates.
21. Alkhaleej Mandi Kitchen
This is a newly opened Dubai halal restaurant in Sanlitun. The owner is an Arab from Dubai and has another shop there. The staff said the ingredients are imported from the Middle East. After eating here, I can say that is true. It reminds me of the mandi I ate in Makkah last year. It is a perfect recreation of Middle Eastern flavors.
This is a non-alcoholic restaurant. I worry about whether it can stay open for a long time because the owner is spending a lot of money, but the Beijing restaurant market is slow this year. Even in Sanlitun on the weekend, there are not many people.
You can smell the familiar scent of agarwood in the shop.
The small cup of Arabic milk tea the waiter brought tastes exactly like the one I had in Abu Dhabi.
The handmade Yemeni flatbread (khubz) comes with various dips and is delicious. The chefs are all Arabs from the Middle East.
Desert colorful chicken mandi
The special handmade Yemeni flatbread is very tasty, has a strong wheat aroma, and is very large.
Royal pastry, it has a texture like sticky rice and contains banana. This dessert is not sweet at all.
Lamb mandi
Grilled fish served with rice. The fish itself has no flavor, so you need to eat it with three different dipping sauces.
The mandi is amazing. The chicken inside is stewed until it is extremely soft and tender, and the rice gets its color from added spices.
22. Stinky Star Snail Rice Noodle (luosifen) Hot Pot
This halal snail rice noodle shop is on the ground floor of the Golden Street in the West District of Tongzhou Wanda Plaza. The owner is a Hui Muslim from Changchun who used to work at iQIYI before opening this physical shop. The small shop has two floors and mainly serves halal snail rice noodles and clam (huajia) noodle hot pots.
The snail rice noodle hot pot comes with a wide variety of ingredients that you can add to the pot to cook together.
Halal snail rice noodles are rare, but you can find them at the halal canteen of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. However, you need a student or teacher from inside to guide you in. If you don't have any connections, just come to Tongzhou Wanda.
This hot pot set for two costs 78 yuan and is enough for two or three people to eat.
The set comes with Guangxi cassava sweet soup.
Add all the side dishes to the pot and cook for 1 minute to start eating. The taste is quite authentic.
23. Fanshen Lobster Restaurant
A newly opened crayfish restaurant in Baiziwan. The owner is from Langfang, and it is currently only open for dinner until the early morning.
You can eat aquatic products like crayfish. For details, you can check my previous article, How does the Hanafi school view shrimp? They also serve local specialties from Cangzhou, Hebei, like hot pot chicken (huoguo ji) and spicy crab (xiangla xie).
The restaurant has a great atmosphere with plenty of space and wide gaps between tables. There is a large private courtyard at the entrance that serves as a free parking lot.
Write a review, save the shop, and check in to get a free glass of fresh-squeezed juice.
The most popular dish is the garlic crawfish. You can really taste how fresh the shrimp is. The golden sauce from the crawfish is great for dipping the hand-torn flatbread (shoushibing), which is freshly griddled and tastes excellent.
The grilled squid is also delicious. Their ingredients are definitely fresh.
The spicy beef tripe (chanzui niudu) has a numbing and spicy flavor that is very good. Overall, this place has the potential to become a viral restaurant thanks to its service, environment, and taste. It is a bit pricey, with an average cost of over 200 yuan per person.
24. Maimaihong Beef Sliced Noodles
Don't underestimate this noodle shop. I will drive 40 minutes from Niujie to Haidian just for a bowl of these noodles. Maimaihong's beef sliced noodles (daoxiao mian) are definitely worth a visit. If you like this style, you won't be disappointed.
The shop is run by Hui Muslims from Jiaozuo, Henan. Their cold dishes are a specialty, and if you come for breakfast, you can have spicy soup (hulatang) in the Xiaoyao Town style, but with less spice to suit Beijing tastes.
Another specialty is their beef steamed buns (niurou baozi). These aren't pan-fried, but the large steamed kind, which you can also get in the morning.
I had a bowl of the deluxe beef sliced noodles. They give you plenty of meat, the broth is rich, the beef is tender, and the noodles are chewy.
For the cold dishes, you pick what you want, and they take it to the kitchen to add seasoning and mix it, which keeps everything fresh and tasty.
25. Hulun Aile Halal Hand-held Meat (shouba rou)
This shop used to be a hot pot place, but it recently changed into a Mongolian restaurant. The change was very successful.
They get their beef and lamb from Hulunbuir. The meat quality from the Inner Mongolian grasslands is excellent.
What drew us here was their afternoon tea with Inner Mongolian flair.
The milk tea comes with a plate of dairy products. This combination is truly tempting.
The Mongolian-style milk tea contains roasted millet (chaomi) and is served in a thermos to keep it warm.
For the hand-held beef steak (shouba niupai), you cut a piece with a small knife and spread chive flower sauce (jiucaihua) on it. It is delicious, and their three types of dipping sauces are all very authentic.
Buryat steamed buns (Buliya baozi) look like the thin-skinned buns from Xinjiang, but the dough is slightly thicker. They are filled with large chunks of lamb, full of broth, and taste great.
This is the most popular afternoon tea dairy platter of the day. The white part on top is cream, which you eat with the dairy products. The four cups contain concentrated milk; it tastes like ice bock (bingboke), which is milk concentrated by evaporating most of the water.
The Inner Mongolian milk ice cream is simple and bold. It is made of large chunks of milk ice, just like a popsicle, but no extra water is added. The texture is smooth and the milky flavor is rich. It is highly recommended. With the Mongolian food being so good, their hot pot seems plain, so I suggest you stick to the Mongolian dishes here.
26. Sanliujiu Wan Halal Beef Brisket Pot
This shop offers Cantonese-style Qingyuan chicken pot, beef brisket and offal pot, and Tianhu chicken pot, along with Cantonese dim sum. It is currently the only halal Cantonese restaurant in Beijing.
Claypot rice (baozai fan)
Claypot rice (baozai fan) is also a new dish. It must be made to order and takes 25 minutes to prepare. It uses Thai jasmine rice topped with beef sausage, and you can choose how many grams of sausage to add based on your preference.
The curry fish balls are very bouncy. The owner says he developed the recipe himself. He is a Hui Muslim from Shandong and the son of an imam.
Our group of 12 people ate through the new dim sum menu twice, and the cost was about 120 yuan per person.
After eating this Hong Kong-style dim sum, you could say there are no gaps left in Beijing's halal food scene. You can find a halal version of every major cuisine in Beijing now.
27. Zaizai Niu Chaoshan Beef Hot Pot
This newly opened Chaoshan beef hot pot place in Xiguanshi, Changping, is even better than the one in Pingle Yuan. The Yushanfang restaurant in Pingle Yuan has closed, so this is currently the only halal Chaoshan beef hot pot in Beijing.
We came at noon and it wasn't crowded. There was only one waitress, a kind lady who could help us cook the meat.
Every dish in the three-person set meal we bought was delicious. The shrimp paste gets a thumbs up, and the beef was especially fragrant.
Summary: This Beijing halal food guide covers the middle part of the 2024 must-eat list, including Azerbaijani dumplings, Iranian food, Ghanaian and West African cuisine, halal Peking duck, shabu-shabu, Yunnan flavors, hot pot, and halal Chaoshan beef hot pot.
Caucasian soup dumplings (gaojiaosuotangbao)
These are Azerbaijani soup dumplings. The owner is from Azerbaijan, so most of the servers are too. Their Chinese isn't great, but it has improved over the last few years.
15. Iranian Cuisine
It used to be called Persepolis, but now it is named Iranian Cuisine. The cooking style hasn't changed, but I think it tastes better now than before. This is the only Iranian restaurant in Beijing, excluding the one inside the Iranian embassy.
I like this spot in their courtyard; it is a typical Iranian residential style.
Saffron pilaf (zanghonghuazhuafan)
I have been here many times. They have a buffet at lunch, and for dinner, they serve Western food like grilled meat and burgers, plus coffee and afternoon tea.
16. TRIBE GARDEN African Tribe Garden Restaurant
A new halal restaurant featuring West African specialties recently opened on the first basement level of the Sanlitun SOHO mall, focusing on Ghanaian cuisine. The staff are all Black Muslims who speak fluent Chinese, and one young lady from Kenya is especially lovely.
Ghana is a country in West Africa where about 15% of the population is Muslim, yet their national banknote features a picture of a mosque with a unique style.
Larabanga Mosque
The Larabanga Mosque (Larabanga Mosque) on the banknote was built between the 14th and 15th centuries. It is the oldest mosque in Ghana. Its architectural style is unique to West Africa, built with yellow mud and wood, making it very iconic.
The restaurant decor also has a strong African feel, including the wall hangings.
African goat meat mixed rice
African goat meat is a bit tough, but it has no gamey smell. The mixed rice tastes salty and spicy.
Non-alcoholic mojito and fruit punch
African specialty egusi (egusi)
This dish is meant to be eaten mixed with the cassava flour paste shown in the picture below. Eating the cassava flour paste is just like eating rice cake.
Fufu (fufu)
The white one is called fufu, which translates to rice flour paste in Chinese. It is the staple food for Ghanaians.
Friday special dish
They have a special dish every day. This Friday special is made with beans and rice, served with some noodles and dipping sauce. It tastes sour, salty, and spicy all at once.
Grilled tilapia
This is African-style grilled fish. It tastes great. Don't let the charred skin fool you; the meat inside is white.
A young lady from Kenya recommended this milkshake to us. It is very creamy and delicious. The total for this meal was 530 yuan for four people, which comes to 130 yuan per person.
17. Rongqing Laoman Guizhou Sour Soup Fish Hot Pot
This Guizhou sour soup hot pot restaurant changed its style and is the only halal Guizhou restaurant in Beijing. Their signature dishes are beef hot pot and fish hot pot. When we visited, the business was already starting to take off, and I hear there are long lines now, with an average wait time of over an hour.
The owner originally planned to serve Guizhou-style stir-fried dishes, but the hot pot business became so popular that they stopped making stir-fries. Now, they only serve hot pot.
We had three glasses of homemade prickly pear juice (cili zhi). It was sweet, sour, and icy cold. They only had three of these glasses, so we took them all, and other customers had to order different drinks.
The dipping sauce (zhanshui) is the soul of the meal. I suggest following the guide posted by the shop to mix your sauce. You must try the litsea cubeba oil (mujiangzi you), mint leaves, chili powder (hu lajiao mian), and fish mint (zhe'ergen).
The full beef feast set includes beef and various beef offal. The ingredients are very fresh. If you like fish, choose the river catfish (jiangtuan). One fish weighs about 1.15 kilograms, and the meat is firm with no small bones.
If you save the shop on your map and check in, you get free iced jelly (bingfen). The jelly is just okay, but the signature beef and fish hot pot are worth a try.
18. Xunji Tan Sheep Hot Pot
Xunji is a chain restaurant. There is one in Gulou and another one in Qingnian Road. The two shops have very different decor, but both are high-end and elegant. The Qingnian Road location has a particularly fresh and unique atmosphere. It is much larger than the Gulou shop and has plenty of free parking.
When you enter the courtyard, you first walk through a bamboo grove. Mist floats along both sides of the path, making it feel like a fairyland.
The courtyard is filled with flowers and green plants, including many brightly colored hydrangeas.
The courtyard has open-air seating and tented private rooms. Each tent is equipped with air conditioning, lights, and a sound system.
There is an indoor dining hall, but in the summer, everyone prefers to sit in the courtyard to enjoy the flowers and food.
The dining tables in the tented rooms have microphones. If you speak near the table, you can hear an echo, which makes chatting easier.
This restaurant is a top-tier halal establishment in Beijing. The average cost per person is between 400 and 500 yuan. The restaurant charges per head and currently only serves hot pot. They can host wedding banquets for about 150 people. Wedding banquets are also charged per head, so a wedding for 100 people costs only 50,000 to 60,000 yuan, which is very affordable for Beijing.
Xunji Gulou Courtyard has a different, classical style. You can sit on the terrace and eat hot pot with the Drum Tower behind you.
At sunset, the scene of eating hot pot with the Drum Tower in the background is stunning. Oriental Selection even came here to host a live stream.
All ingredients are fresh and high-quality. You just wait for the servers to bring the dishes in order. Each private room has a dedicated server to provide attentive service. The dishes are served in this order: drinks, cold appetizers, hot pot ingredients, staples, and dessert. You can order extra portions of anything you like without extra charges. It is like paying 300 to 500 yuan for a high-end buffet, so it is not expensive.
19. Baoding beef covered pancake (niurou zhaobing)
I once drove all the way to Miyun just to eat halal covered pancake (zhaobing). When I heard a halal zhaobing shop opened in Baiziwan, I came to try it. The taste is even better than the one in Miyun. Now, this shop has also opened a branch in Daxing.
One cover two means one liang of meat and two liang of flatbread. I chose the single set meal of one cover three, which is two liang of beef and three liang of flatbread. The shop just opened and they are still hiring staff. They only serve covered flatbread (zhaobing) and braised chicken (luzhuji), which is also a specialty of Baoding.
I have eaten covered flatbread in Baoding, and the taste is basically the same as this place.
20. Azerbaijan National Pavilion Maiden Tower Restaurant
A new restaurant opened on the third floor of the Azerbaijan National Pavilion. It is named after the Maiden Tower, which is a tourist attraction in Azerbaijan. This is the only halal Azerbaijani restaurant in Beijing, so it is worth noting.
The restaurant is inside the pavilion, so you can enjoy Azerbaijani folk handicrafts while you eat.
Many Azerbaijani chefs work abroad. Many of the Turkish restaurants we often eat at are actually run by Azerbaijanis.
The dishes here suit our tastes well, including these snacks, which are also good for babies to eat.
Creamy eggplant rolls (xiangnai qiezijuan)
Jeliteme roast chicken (jeliteme kaoji)
Beef rice with chestnut and pomegranate sauce (lizi shiliujiang niuroufan)
Nut cake
The restaurant is near Sanyuanqiao. It costs about 150 yuan per person. It is good for business dinners and dates.
21. Alkhaleej Mandi Kitchen
This is a newly opened Dubai halal restaurant in Sanlitun. The owner is an Arab from Dubai and has another shop there. The staff said the ingredients are imported from the Middle East. After eating here, I can say that is true. It reminds me of the mandi I ate in Makkah last year. It is a perfect recreation of Middle Eastern flavors.
This is a non-alcoholic restaurant. I worry about whether it can stay open for a long time because the owner is spending a lot of money, but the Beijing restaurant market is slow this year. Even in Sanlitun on the weekend, there are not many people.
You can smell the familiar scent of agarwood in the shop.
The small cup of Arabic milk tea the waiter brought tastes exactly like the one I had in Abu Dhabi.
The handmade Yemeni flatbread (khubz) comes with various dips and is delicious. The chefs are all Arabs from the Middle East.
Desert colorful chicken mandi
The special handmade Yemeni flatbread is very tasty, has a strong wheat aroma, and is very large.
Royal pastry, it has a texture like sticky rice and contains banana. This dessert is not sweet at all.
Lamb mandi
Grilled fish served with rice. The fish itself has no flavor, so you need to eat it with three different dipping sauces.
The mandi is amazing. The chicken inside is stewed until it is extremely soft and tender, and the rice gets its color from added spices.
22. Stinky Star Snail Rice Noodle (luosifen) Hot Pot
This halal snail rice noodle shop is on the ground floor of the Golden Street in the West District of Tongzhou Wanda Plaza. The owner is a Hui Muslim from Changchun who used to work at iQIYI before opening this physical shop. The small shop has two floors and mainly serves halal snail rice noodles and clam (huajia) noodle hot pots.
The snail rice noodle hot pot comes with a wide variety of ingredients that you can add to the pot to cook together.
Halal snail rice noodles are rare, but you can find them at the halal canteen of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. However, you need a student or teacher from inside to guide you in. If you don't have any connections, just come to Tongzhou Wanda.
This hot pot set for two costs 78 yuan and is enough for two or three people to eat.
The set comes with Guangxi cassava sweet soup.
Add all the side dishes to the pot and cook for 1 minute to start eating. The taste is quite authentic.
23. Fanshen Lobster Restaurant
A newly opened crayfish restaurant in Baiziwan. The owner is from Langfang, and it is currently only open for dinner until the early morning.
You can eat aquatic products like crayfish. For details, you can check my previous article, How does the Hanafi school view shrimp? They also serve local specialties from Cangzhou, Hebei, like hot pot chicken (huoguo ji) and spicy crab (xiangla xie).
The restaurant has a great atmosphere with plenty of space and wide gaps between tables. There is a large private courtyard at the entrance that serves as a free parking lot.
Write a review, save the shop, and check in to get a free glass of fresh-squeezed juice.
The most popular dish is the garlic crawfish. You can really taste how fresh the shrimp is. The golden sauce from the crawfish is great for dipping the hand-torn flatbread (shoushibing), which is freshly griddled and tastes excellent.
The grilled squid is also delicious. Their ingredients are definitely fresh.
The spicy beef tripe (chanzui niudu) has a numbing and spicy flavor that is very good. Overall, this place has the potential to become a viral restaurant thanks to its service, environment, and taste. It is a bit pricey, with an average cost of over 200 yuan per person.
24. Maimaihong Beef Sliced Noodles
Don't underestimate this noodle shop. I will drive 40 minutes from Niujie to Haidian just for a bowl of these noodles. Maimaihong's beef sliced noodles (daoxiao mian) are definitely worth a visit. If you like this style, you won't be disappointed.
The shop is run by Hui Muslims from Jiaozuo, Henan. Their cold dishes are a specialty, and if you come for breakfast, you can have spicy soup (hulatang) in the Xiaoyao Town style, but with less spice to suit Beijing tastes.
Another specialty is their beef steamed buns (niurou baozi). These aren't pan-fried, but the large steamed kind, which you can also get in the morning.
I had a bowl of the deluxe beef sliced noodles. They give you plenty of meat, the broth is rich, the beef is tender, and the noodles are chewy.
For the cold dishes, you pick what you want, and they take it to the kitchen to add seasoning and mix it, which keeps everything fresh and tasty.
25. Hulun Aile Halal Hand-held Meat (shouba rou)
This shop used to be a hot pot place, but it recently changed into a Mongolian restaurant. The change was very successful.
They get their beef and lamb from Hulunbuir. The meat quality from the Inner Mongolian grasslands is excellent.
What drew us here was their afternoon tea with Inner Mongolian flair.
The milk tea comes with a plate of dairy products. This combination is truly tempting.
The Mongolian-style milk tea contains roasted millet (chaomi) and is served in a thermos to keep it warm.
For the hand-held beef steak (shouba niupai), you cut a piece with a small knife and spread chive flower sauce (jiucaihua) on it. It is delicious, and their three types of dipping sauces are all very authentic.
Buryat steamed buns (Buliya baozi) look like the thin-skinned buns from Xinjiang, but the dough is slightly thicker. They are filled with large chunks of lamb, full of broth, and taste great.
This is the most popular afternoon tea dairy platter of the day. The white part on top is cream, which you eat with the dairy products. The four cups contain concentrated milk; it tastes like ice bock (bingboke), which is milk concentrated by evaporating most of the water.
The Inner Mongolian milk ice cream is simple and bold. It is made of large chunks of milk ice, just like a popsicle, but no extra water is added. The texture is smooth and the milky flavor is rich. It is highly recommended. With the Mongolian food being so good, their hot pot seems plain, so I suggest you stick to the Mongolian dishes here.
26. Sanliujiu Wan Halal Beef Brisket Pot
This shop offers Cantonese-style Qingyuan chicken pot, beef brisket and offal pot, and Tianhu chicken pot, along with Cantonese dim sum. It is currently the only halal Cantonese restaurant in Beijing.
Claypot rice (baozai fan)
Claypot rice (baozai fan) is also a new dish. It must be made to order and takes 25 minutes to prepare. It uses Thai jasmine rice topped with beef sausage, and you can choose how many grams of sausage to add based on your preference.
The curry fish balls are very bouncy. The owner says he developed the recipe himself. He is a Hui Muslim from Shandong and the son of an imam.
Our group of 12 people ate through the new dim sum menu twice, and the cost was about 120 yuan per person.
After eating this Hong Kong-style dim sum, you could say there are no gaps left in Beijing's halal food scene. You can find a halal version of every major cuisine in Beijing now.
27. Zaizai Niu Chaoshan Beef Hot Pot
This newly opened Chaoshan beef hot pot place in Xiguanshi, Changping, is even better than the one in Pingle Yuan. The Yushanfang restaurant in Pingle Yuan has closed, so this is currently the only halal Chaoshan beef hot pot in Beijing.
We came at noon and it wasn't crowded. There was only one waitress, a kind lady who could help us cook the meat.
Every dish in the three-person set meal we bought was delicious. The shrimp paste gets a thumbs up, and the beef was especially fragrant.
Real Muslim Food China: Xining Halal Baozi, Beef Hotpot & Qinghai Restaurant Map
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Summary: A real Muslim food map for Xining, Qinghai, covering halal baozi (steamed buns), beef hotpot, bakeries, local restaurants, and the original address and photo details from the Chinese article.
Nearly half of the restaurants in Xining are halal, and these halal spots do not serve alcohol. Decent restaurants even have prayer rooms. There are so many delicious choices in Xining that it is unrealistic to try them all, so I will just recommend the ones I have visited.
1. Turkish Mediterranean Restaurant
There is a very clear Turkish sign hanging outside the Xinqian building. You can take the elevator directly to the restaurant on the third floor. Once you enter, a server will lead you to a small private room. This is a feature of halal restaurants in Xining; the tables are in small partitioned areas, and when you pull the curtain, you have a private space to chat. I recommend the steak and desserts here.
Address: 3rd Floor, Xinqian International, Xiadu Avenue
2. Yifan Restaurant
As soon as you walk in, you see a prayer room and a place for wudu (small ablution). All kinds of facilities are available, which is very common in Xining.
You need to pay extra for napkins in Xining restaurants.
This was my first time eating Qinghai clay pot hot pot (tu huoguo). A huge pot like this only costs a little over 100 yuan. The top is covered with lamb, which is already cooked when served. The middle layer has glass noodles and lettuce, and the bottom has potatoes and radishes. By the time you finish the top, the bottom layer is cooked perfectly. It tastes great.
Address: Northeast corner of the intersection of Nanxiao Street and Qingzhen Lane
3. Jinmai Bakery
This is a chain store where you can order delicious cakes. Because the cream is whipped fresh to order, you have to wait an hour. A 14-inch cake costs a little over 100 yuan. They also have many pastries like egg tarts, cream puffs, and wife cakes (laopobing), which are all cheap and tasty.
Address: Jinniu Residential Area Branch, No. 22 Beixiao Street, Chengdong District
4. Dazhong Steamed Buns
This is a famous, long-standing shop that has been open for decades and is very popular. I often come here for breakfast. They have steamed buns (baozi) with potato filling and chive filling. The buns have thin skins and lots of filling. Pair them with a bowl of starch noodle soup (fen tang), and it is delicious.
5. Qingzhen Niububi Hot Pot
A halal hot pot chain from Chengdu has opened in Xining. My Salar brothers invited me to try it. We ordered the mild spicy version, but it did not feel spicy at all. Although the chili peppers in Qinghai are red, they are low in heat and are mainly used for color and aroma. The environment here is much more spacious than the Chengdu branch.
Address: Room 81-51, Building 2, No. 81 Shengli Road
6. Zhenxiang Porridge
Eating beef and lamb as a staple every day in Xining makes you crave something light occasionally. Beijing really lacks a halal porridge shop like this. They have various flavors of porridge and Cantonese-style snacks. I have eaten at Xiapo Porridge and Pancake Shop in Xiamen, and I hope these porridge shops can open branches in Beijing soon.
Address: No. 44-4 Nandajie (next to Fengfan Bar)
7. Qingzhen Jincai Hot Pot City
There are many hot pot restaurants in Xining. This one is quite large and the ingredients are fresh. Eating lamb in Xining is a treat because it has very little gamey smell. I ordered a specialty snack called dog-pissing-on-the-wall pancake (goujiaoniao). It is a thin pancake with oil poured over it, which looks like a dog urinating.
Address: No. 66, Xinqian International Plaza, Xiadu Avenue
8. Delu Yogurt Shop
I visited Xining twice and made sure to go to Mojia Street to taste the yogurt at Delu, a long-established shop. Qinghai yogurt has a unique flavor with a layer of yellow milk skin (naipizi) on top. You do not need to add extra sugar, and it tastes neither sour nor greasy, with a smooth texture.
Address: Mojia Street
9. Hasan Ice Cream Shop
The girl selling Hasan ice cream is exceptionally beautiful, like a beauty of the ice cream world. I praised her on Weibo and her family saw it, telling me she is already married (giggle). There are so many beautiful women from ethnic minorities in the east of Xining city. They know how to dress, and they are thin, fair-skinned, and have big eyes, making them a beautiful sight.
Address: Mojia Street
11. Baituo Halal Yak Hot Pot
To eat authentic halal yak hot pot, you must come to Xining. Although Lhasa also has yak hot pot, the altitude in Lhasa is higher, so the water does not boil well, which affects the texture of the meat when you cook it. You can also try Tibetan goat meat here. Yak meat is a bit tough, so I suggest pairing it with lamb and fatty beef.
Address: 2nd Floor, Building 1, Huheng Building, 67 Dongguan Street
12. Mazhong Food Court
Mazhong Food Court at 1 Mojia Street is the place most visitors go to, similar to the snack street at Wangfujing in Beijing. You must eat hand-grabbed meat (shouzhuarou). There are many places to eat it in Xining. Qinghai lamb is fresh and tender; I could not even smell any gamey odor while standing in front of the meat stall. Eat the hand-grabbed meat with raw garlic and pair it with a bottle of Qinghai yogurt for a balanced and satisfying meal.
Address: 1 Mojia Street
13. Kamila Tea Restaurant
There are many halal tea restaurants in Xining, perfect for dates, matchmaking, and drinking tea. People here really know how to enjoy life, spending an entire afternoon with a covered tea bowl (gaiwan).
Address: 2nd Floor, Yonghe Building, Xiguan Street
14. Jingxifeng Halal Restaurant
Xining Jingxifeng Halal Restaurant is the largest halal restaurant I have ever seen. It was built by turning an ecological park into a restaurant. Walking through the restaurant is like walking through a park, and there is even an artificial lake. The environment is beautiful and suitable for wedding banquets and wedding photos. The meal standard is only over 1,000 yuan per table, but People say there are even larger halal restaurants in Xining.
Address: Bayi Road, Chengdong District
15. Xinqian Lijing Sky Garden Halal Restaurant
This is a tropical rainforest-style halal restaurant. During the Spring Festival, there are newlyweds holding weddings here every day. The meal standard is also over 1,000 yuan, with an additional 3,000 yuan venue fee. I am amazed at how many high-end restaurants Hui Muslims in Xining can choose from for weddings, with both great environments and food.
Address: 66 Jianguo Street view all
Summary: A real Muslim food map for Xining, Qinghai, covering halal baozi (steamed buns), beef hotpot, bakeries, local restaurants, and the original address and photo details from the Chinese article.
Nearly half of the restaurants in Xining are halal, and these halal spots do not serve alcohol. Decent restaurants even have prayer rooms. There are so many delicious choices in Xining that it is unrealistic to try them all, so I will just recommend the ones I have visited.
1. Turkish Mediterranean Restaurant
There is a very clear Turkish sign hanging outside the Xinqian building. You can take the elevator directly to the restaurant on the third floor. Once you enter, a server will lead you to a small private room. This is a feature of halal restaurants in Xining; the tables are in small partitioned areas, and when you pull the curtain, you have a private space to chat. I recommend the steak and desserts here.
Address: 3rd Floor, Xinqian International, Xiadu Avenue
2. Yifan Restaurant
As soon as you walk in, you see a prayer room and a place for wudu (small ablution). All kinds of facilities are available, which is very common in Xining.
You need to pay extra for napkins in Xining restaurants.
This was my first time eating Qinghai clay pot hot pot (tu huoguo). A huge pot like this only costs a little over 100 yuan. The top is covered with lamb, which is already cooked when served. The middle layer has glass noodles and lettuce, and the bottom has potatoes and radishes. By the time you finish the top, the bottom layer is cooked perfectly. It tastes great.
Address: Northeast corner of the intersection of Nanxiao Street and Qingzhen Lane
3. Jinmai Bakery
This is a chain store where you can order delicious cakes. Because the cream is whipped fresh to order, you have to wait an hour. A 14-inch cake costs a little over 100 yuan. They also have many pastries like egg tarts, cream puffs, and wife cakes (laopobing), which are all cheap and tasty.
Address: Jinniu Residential Area Branch, No. 22 Beixiao Street, Chengdong District
4. Dazhong Steamed Buns
This is a famous, long-standing shop that has been open for decades and is very popular. I often come here for breakfast. They have steamed buns (baozi) with potato filling and chive filling. The buns have thin skins and lots of filling. Pair them with a bowl of starch noodle soup (fen tang), and it is delicious.
5. Qingzhen Niububi Hot Pot
A halal hot pot chain from Chengdu has opened in Xining. My Salar brothers invited me to try it. We ordered the mild spicy version, but it did not feel spicy at all. Although the chili peppers in Qinghai are red, they are low in heat and are mainly used for color and aroma. The environment here is much more spacious than the Chengdu branch.
Address: Room 81-51, Building 2, No. 81 Shengli Road
6. Zhenxiang Porridge
Eating beef and lamb as a staple every day in Xining makes you crave something light occasionally. Beijing really lacks a halal porridge shop like this. They have various flavors of porridge and Cantonese-style snacks. I have eaten at Xiapo Porridge and Pancake Shop in Xiamen, and I hope these porridge shops can open branches in Beijing soon.
Address: No. 44-4 Nandajie (next to Fengfan Bar)
7. Qingzhen Jincai Hot Pot City
There are many hot pot restaurants in Xining. This one is quite large and the ingredients are fresh. Eating lamb in Xining is a treat because it has very little gamey smell. I ordered a specialty snack called dog-pissing-on-the-wall pancake (goujiaoniao). It is a thin pancake with oil poured over it, which looks like a dog urinating.
Address: No. 66, Xinqian International Plaza, Xiadu Avenue
8. Delu Yogurt Shop
I visited Xining twice and made sure to go to Mojia Street to taste the yogurt at Delu, a long-established shop. Qinghai yogurt has a unique flavor with a layer of yellow milk skin (naipizi) on top. You do not need to add extra sugar, and it tastes neither sour nor greasy, with a smooth texture.
Address: Mojia Street
9. Hasan Ice Cream Shop
The girl selling Hasan ice cream is exceptionally beautiful, like a beauty of the ice cream world. I praised her on Weibo and her family saw it, telling me she is already married (giggle). There are so many beautiful women from ethnic minorities in the east of Xining city. They know how to dress, and they are thin, fair-skinned, and have big eyes, making them a beautiful sight.
Address: Mojia Street
11. Baituo Halal Yak Hot Pot
To eat authentic halal yak hot pot, you must come to Xining. Although Lhasa also has yak hot pot, the altitude in Lhasa is higher, so the water does not boil well, which affects the texture of the meat when you cook it. You can also try Tibetan goat meat here. Yak meat is a bit tough, so I suggest pairing it with lamb and fatty beef.
Address: 2nd Floor, Building 1, Huheng Building, 67 Dongguan Street
12. Mazhong Food Court
Mazhong Food Court at 1 Mojia Street is the place most visitors go to, similar to the snack street at Wangfujing in Beijing. You must eat hand-grabbed meat (shouzhuarou). There are many places to eat it in Xining. Qinghai lamb is fresh and tender; I could not even smell any gamey odor while standing in front of the meat stall. Eat the hand-grabbed meat with raw garlic and pair it with a bottle of Qinghai yogurt for a balanced and satisfying meal.
Address: 1 Mojia Street
13. Kamila Tea Restaurant
There are many halal tea restaurants in Xining, perfect for dates, matchmaking, and drinking tea. People here really know how to enjoy life, spending an entire afternoon with a covered tea bowl (gaiwan).
Address: 2nd Floor, Yonghe Building, Xiguan Street
14. Jingxifeng Halal Restaurant
Xining Jingxifeng Halal Restaurant is the largest halal restaurant I have ever seen. It was built by turning an ecological park into a restaurant. Walking through the restaurant is like walking through a park, and there is even an artificial lake. The environment is beautiful and suitable for wedding banquets and wedding photos. The meal standard is only over 1,000 yuan per table, but People say there are even larger halal restaurants in Xining.
Address: Bayi Road, Chengdong District
15. Xinqian Lijing Sky Garden Halal Restaurant
This is a tropical rainforest-style halal restaurant. During the Spring Festival, there are newlyweds holding weddings here every day. The meal standard is also over 1,000 yuan, with an additional 3,000 yuan venue fee. I am amazed at how many high-end restaurants Hui Muslims in Xining can choose from for weddings, with both great environments and food.
Address: 66 Jianguo Street view all
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Summary: A real Muslim food map for Xining, Qinghai, covering halal baozi (steamed buns), beef hotpot, bakeries, local restaurants, and the original address and photo details from the Chinese article.
Nearly half of the restaurants in Xining are halal, and these halal spots do not serve alcohol. Decent restaurants even have prayer rooms. There are so many delicious choices in Xining that it is unrealistic to try them all, so I will just recommend the ones I have visited.
1. Turkish Mediterranean Restaurant
There is a very clear Turkish sign hanging outside the Xinqian building. You can take the elevator directly to the restaurant on the third floor. Once you enter, a server will lead you to a small private room. This is a feature of halal restaurants in Xining; the tables are in small partitioned areas, and when you pull the curtain, you have a private space to chat. I recommend the steak and desserts here.
Address: 3rd Floor, Xinqian International, Xiadu Avenue
2. Yifan Restaurant
As soon as you walk in, you see a prayer room and a place for wudu (small ablution). All kinds of facilities are available, which is very common in Xining.
You need to pay extra for napkins in Xining restaurants.
This was my first time eating Qinghai clay pot hot pot (tu huoguo). A huge pot like this only costs a little over 100 yuan. The top is covered with lamb, which is already cooked when served. The middle layer has glass noodles and lettuce, and the bottom has potatoes and radishes. By the time you finish the top, the bottom layer is cooked perfectly. It tastes great.
Address: Northeast corner of the intersection of Nanxiao Street and Qingzhen Lane
3. Jinmai Bakery
This is a chain store where you can order delicious cakes. Because the cream is whipped fresh to order, you have to wait an hour. A 14-inch cake costs a little over 100 yuan. They also have many pastries like egg tarts, cream puffs, and wife cakes (laopobing), which are all cheap and tasty.
Address: Jinniu Residential Area Branch, No. 22 Beixiao Street, Chengdong District
4. Dazhong Steamed Buns
This is a famous, long-standing shop that has been open for decades and is very popular. I often come here for breakfast. They have steamed buns (baozi) with potato filling and chive filling. The buns have thin skins and lots of filling. Pair them with a bowl of starch noodle soup (fen tang), and it is delicious.
5. Qingzhen Niububi Hot Pot
A halal hot pot chain from Chengdu has opened in Xining. My Salar brothers invited me to try it. We ordered the mild spicy version, but it did not feel spicy at all. Although the chili peppers in Qinghai are red, they are low in heat and are mainly used for color and aroma. The environment here is much more spacious than the Chengdu branch.
Address: Room 81-51, Building 2, No. 81 Shengli Road
6. Zhenxiang Porridge
Eating beef and lamb as a staple every day in Xining makes you crave something light occasionally. Beijing really lacks a halal porridge shop like this. They have various flavors of porridge and Cantonese-style snacks. I have eaten at Xiapo Porridge and Pancake Shop in Xiamen, and I hope these porridge shops can open branches in Beijing soon.
Address: No. 44-4 Nandajie (next to Fengfan Bar)
7. Qingzhen Jincai Hot Pot City
There are many hot pot restaurants in Xining. This one is quite large and the ingredients are fresh. Eating lamb in Xining is a treat because it has very little gamey smell. I ordered a specialty snack called dog-pissing-on-the-wall pancake (goujiaoniao). It is a thin pancake with oil poured over it, which looks like a dog urinating.
Address: No. 66, Xinqian International Plaza, Xiadu Avenue
8. Delu Yogurt Shop
I visited Xining twice and made sure to go to Mojia Street to taste the yogurt at Delu, a long-established shop. Qinghai yogurt has a unique flavor with a layer of yellow milk skin (naipizi) on top. You do not need to add extra sugar, and it tastes neither sour nor greasy, with a smooth texture.
Address: Mojia Street
9. Hasan Ice Cream Shop
The girl selling Hasan ice cream is exceptionally beautiful, like a beauty of the ice cream world. I praised her on Weibo and her family saw it, telling me she is already married (giggle). There are so many beautiful women from ethnic minorities in the east of Xining city. They know how to dress, and they are thin, fair-skinned, and have big eyes, making them a beautiful sight.
Address: Mojia Street
11. Baituo Halal Yak Hot Pot
To eat authentic halal yak hot pot, you must come to Xining. Although Lhasa also has yak hot pot, the altitude in Lhasa is higher, so the water does not boil well, which affects the texture of the meat when you cook it. You can also try Tibetan goat meat here. Yak meat is a bit tough, so I suggest pairing it with lamb and fatty beef.
Address: 2nd Floor, Building 1, Huheng Building, 67 Dongguan Street
12. Mazhong Food Court
Mazhong Food Court at 1 Mojia Street is the place most visitors go to, similar to the snack street at Wangfujing in Beijing. You must eat hand-grabbed meat (shouzhuarou). There are many places to eat it in Xining. Qinghai lamb is fresh and tender; I could not even smell any gamey odor while standing in front of the meat stall. Eat the hand-grabbed meat with raw garlic and pair it with a bottle of Qinghai yogurt for a balanced and satisfying meal.
Address: 1 Mojia Street
13. Kamila Tea Restaurant
There are many halal tea restaurants in Xining, perfect for dates, matchmaking, and drinking tea. People here really know how to enjoy life, spending an entire afternoon with a covered tea bowl (gaiwan).
Address: 2nd Floor, Yonghe Building, Xiguan Street
14. Jingxifeng Halal Restaurant
Xining Jingxifeng Halal Restaurant is the largest halal restaurant I have ever seen. It was built by turning an ecological park into a restaurant. Walking through the restaurant is like walking through a park, and there is even an artificial lake. The environment is beautiful and suitable for wedding banquets and wedding photos. The meal standard is only over 1,000 yuan per table, but People say there are even larger halal restaurants in Xining.
Address: Bayi Road, Chengdong District
15. Xinqian Lijing Sky Garden Halal Restaurant
This is a tropical rainforest-style halal restaurant. During the Spring Festival, there are newlyweds holding weddings here every day. The meal standard is also over 1,000 yuan, with an additional 3,000 yuan venue fee. I am amazed at how many high-end restaurants Hui Muslims in Xining can choose from for weddings, with both great environments and food.
Address: 66 Jianguo Street
Summary: A real Muslim food map for Xining, Qinghai, covering halal baozi (steamed buns), beef hotpot, bakeries, local restaurants, and the original address and photo details from the Chinese article.
Nearly half of the restaurants in Xining are halal, and these halal spots do not serve alcohol. Decent restaurants even have prayer rooms. There are so many delicious choices in Xining that it is unrealistic to try them all, so I will just recommend the ones I have visited.
1. Turkish Mediterranean Restaurant
There is a very clear Turkish sign hanging outside the Xinqian building. You can take the elevator directly to the restaurant on the third floor. Once you enter, a server will lead you to a small private room. This is a feature of halal restaurants in Xining; the tables are in small partitioned areas, and when you pull the curtain, you have a private space to chat. I recommend the steak and desserts here.
Address: 3rd Floor, Xinqian International, Xiadu Avenue
2. Yifan Restaurant
As soon as you walk in, you see a prayer room and a place for wudu (small ablution). All kinds of facilities are available, which is very common in Xining.
You need to pay extra for napkins in Xining restaurants.
This was my first time eating Qinghai clay pot hot pot (tu huoguo). A huge pot like this only costs a little over 100 yuan. The top is covered with lamb, which is already cooked when served. The middle layer has glass noodles and lettuce, and the bottom has potatoes and radishes. By the time you finish the top, the bottom layer is cooked perfectly. It tastes great.
Address: Northeast corner of the intersection of Nanxiao Street and Qingzhen Lane
3. Jinmai Bakery
This is a chain store where you can order delicious cakes. Because the cream is whipped fresh to order, you have to wait an hour. A 14-inch cake costs a little over 100 yuan. They also have many pastries like egg tarts, cream puffs, and wife cakes (laopobing), which are all cheap and tasty.
Address: Jinniu Residential Area Branch, No. 22 Beixiao Street, Chengdong District
4. Dazhong Steamed Buns
This is a famous, long-standing shop that has been open for decades and is very popular. I often come here for breakfast. They have steamed buns (baozi) with potato filling and chive filling. The buns have thin skins and lots of filling. Pair them with a bowl of starch noodle soup (fen tang), and it is delicious.
5. Qingzhen Niububi Hot Pot
A halal hot pot chain from Chengdu has opened in Xining. My Salar brothers invited me to try it. We ordered the mild spicy version, but it did not feel spicy at all. Although the chili peppers in Qinghai are red, they are low in heat and are mainly used for color and aroma. The environment here is much more spacious than the Chengdu branch.
Address: Room 81-51, Building 2, No. 81 Shengli Road
6. Zhenxiang Porridge
Eating beef and lamb as a staple every day in Xining makes you crave something light occasionally. Beijing really lacks a halal porridge shop like this. They have various flavors of porridge and Cantonese-style snacks. I have eaten at Xiapo Porridge and Pancake Shop in Xiamen, and I hope these porridge shops can open branches in Beijing soon.
Address: No. 44-4 Nandajie (next to Fengfan Bar)
7. Qingzhen Jincai Hot Pot City
There are many hot pot restaurants in Xining. This one is quite large and the ingredients are fresh. Eating lamb in Xining is a treat because it has very little gamey smell. I ordered a specialty snack called dog-pissing-on-the-wall pancake (goujiaoniao). It is a thin pancake with oil poured over it, which looks like a dog urinating.
Address: No. 66, Xinqian International Plaza, Xiadu Avenue
8. Delu Yogurt Shop
I visited Xining twice and made sure to go to Mojia Street to taste the yogurt at Delu, a long-established shop. Qinghai yogurt has a unique flavor with a layer of yellow milk skin (naipizi) on top. You do not need to add extra sugar, and it tastes neither sour nor greasy, with a smooth texture.
Address: Mojia Street
9. Hasan Ice Cream Shop
The girl selling Hasan ice cream is exceptionally beautiful, like a beauty of the ice cream world. I praised her on Weibo and her family saw it, telling me she is already married (giggle). There are so many beautiful women from ethnic minorities in the east of Xining city. They know how to dress, and they are thin, fair-skinned, and have big eyes, making them a beautiful sight.
Address: Mojia Street
11. Baituo Halal Yak Hot Pot
To eat authentic halal yak hot pot, you must come to Xining. Although Lhasa also has yak hot pot, the altitude in Lhasa is higher, so the water does not boil well, which affects the texture of the meat when you cook it. You can also try Tibetan goat meat here. Yak meat is a bit tough, so I suggest pairing it with lamb and fatty beef.
Address: 2nd Floor, Building 1, Huheng Building, 67 Dongguan Street
12. Mazhong Food Court
Mazhong Food Court at 1 Mojia Street is the place most visitors go to, similar to the snack street at Wangfujing in Beijing. You must eat hand-grabbed meat (shouzhuarou). There are many places to eat it in Xining. Qinghai lamb is fresh and tender; I could not even smell any gamey odor while standing in front of the meat stall. Eat the hand-grabbed meat with raw garlic and pair it with a bottle of Qinghai yogurt for a balanced and satisfying meal.
Address: 1 Mojia Street
13. Kamila Tea Restaurant
There are many halal tea restaurants in Xining, perfect for dates, matchmaking, and drinking tea. People here really know how to enjoy life, spending an entire afternoon with a covered tea bowl (gaiwan).
Address: 2nd Floor, Yonghe Building, Xiguan Street
14. Jingxifeng Halal Restaurant
Xining Jingxifeng Halal Restaurant is the largest halal restaurant I have ever seen. It was built by turning an ecological park into a restaurant. Walking through the restaurant is like walking through a park, and there is even an artificial lake. The environment is beautiful and suitable for wedding banquets and wedding photos. The meal standard is only over 1,000 yuan per table, but People say there are even larger halal restaurants in Xining.
Address: Bayi Road, Chengdong District
15. Xinqian Lijing Sky Garden Halal Restaurant
This is a tropical rainforest-style halal restaurant. During the Spring Festival, there are newlyweds holding weddings here every day. The meal standard is also over 1,000 yuan, with an additional 3,000 yuan venue fee. I am amazed at how many high-end restaurants Hui Muslims in Xining can choose from for weddings, with both great environments and food.
Address: 66 Jianguo Street